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Meetings are for lemmings?
There are occasional readers of DT (hi Leavergirl, if you’re still there) who despair of my tendency to a) attend meetings and b) be surprised when they are crap. Some friends even staged an intervention a while back… They are, … Continue reading
Meetings in the nude?! #pomposityreduction
“Is it always as tense as this with her?” I wondered. “Not always,” Caroline thought for a minute. “Me and her have lived here the longest. Five years it must be, near enough. It’s worked well enough most of the … Continue reading
Of silencing and silences as a mechanism of power. #slavery #conferences #crasscomparisons
There’s more than one way to skin a cat (I’m told). There’s more than one way to impose reality, to enforce a limited number of narratives. Plantation owners used to make sure their slaves came from different parts of Africa, … Continue reading
How on earth does ANYTHING get done?
No wonder your average entrepreneur so loathes meetings. What was it Dave Berry said – organisations have meetings because they can’t actually masturbate? Either they are poorly conceived (death by powerpoint, serial-sage-on-the-stage) or else they are adequately conceived and then … Continue reading
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Tagged ego-fodder, facilitation, facipulation, meetings
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“Only Connect”: Red Pepper on Syriza, feminism and movements. (But oh, the turgidity.)
There are two pieces in the latest worthy Red Pepper (1) worthy of note (so far – I’ve not finished it). They are both book reviews. “Syriza in Greece has been the most successful in mobilising popular and electoral support … Continue reading
Posted in activism, book review
Tagged Lynne Segal, meetings, movement-building, Red Pepper, social movements
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XX marks the spot? Female-dominated meetings
Yes there are exceptions (many exceptions), but as a gross generalisation – for reasons that may have to do with genetics, or socialisation (and I am not particularly interested because the ‘genetics’ argument is a red herring) – women are … Continue reading
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Tagged avuncularitis, ego-fodder, meetings, movement-building, social movements
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Green Visions, Red Mist and Flouncer’s Remorse
Flouncer’s Remorse is a concept that is more fun to invent than to experience. Trust me on this. I let anger and frustration and powerlessness and disappointment cloud my judgement. I let those things give me “permission” to ask permission … Continue reading
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Tagged facilitation, fll, flouncer's remorse, meetings, reflection
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The first rule of facilitation is you do NOT facipulate
I broke my “meetings” rule. To be fair to myself, my attendance at this particular meeting (where I was supposed to facilitate the afternoon session) pre-dates my “no more meetings” promise… I am not going to say much, cos I … Continue reading
I think the meetings lemon is squeezed dry…
Following the guest post from Mrs Towers, and the map-less compass, I got this from a wise friend I started a comment on Mrs T’s guest post and abandoned it – couldn’t find the right tone. In essence what I … Continue reading
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Tagged meetings, movement-building, smugosphere
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Acing “comment tennis”
I am done with “comment tennis.” What is comment tennis? It’s what happens at the end of a ‘normal’ panel discussion. The panellists (middle-class white men, mostly) have used up all their time (and more). The panellists haven’t really addressed … Continue reading →