Meeting Facilitation

At yesterday's meeting I said that I'd would like to present a model for meeting facilitation to the group, one that hopefully makes meetings more productive as well as more inclusive and see if there were interest in trying it out.

Here are some guidelines in regards to pre-meeting agenda formation and tips to watch for during the meeting:

http://aia.mahost.org/dec_meeting.html

This link has more of the internals of the meeting, including a structure and defined roles for participants.  Facilitator, Timekeeper, Notetaker, Peacekeeper, Advocate are a few of the roles, of course the tasks could be broken down or consolidated as the situation requires. 

http://www.consensus.net/ocac5.html

But if you get some time to look at these websites, please let me know what you think, especially your thoughts on trying this out at the next meeting.