Meeting Facilitation Mean to Read List and book launch bakeoff

"Criticize to lift up, not to tear down"

RantWoman has a versatile God who gets things done LOTS of ways.

Presenting RantWoman's Meeting Management Meaning To Read (in spite of) book launch bake off featuring two authors RantWoman basically esteems.

Call it Clerking and Quaker Process. Call it Meeting Facilitation. The topic is on RantWoman's mind.

A book trailer, afflicted by an all too common sin

Thrive: the facilitator's guide to radically inclusive meetings by Mark Smutny

What's wrong with this picture? Hint: for one thing just turn off your video.

A whole book launch video for 

Sacred decisions: consensus in faith communities by Marcia J Patton and Nora J. Percival.



RantWoman really likes:

--Quakers in contexts with other faith communities

--Faith Leaders of color with speaking parts

The book has only made it to RantWoman's mean to read list so maybe the book mentions more about Quaker accountability and support practices than came up in the book launch video. Well maybe.

A treat for readers who read this in time to sign up.

 The UFM worship and ministry committee is offering a two-hour virtual workshop on Quaker decision making, Saturday, March 5, 10:00 – 12:00. https://zoom.us/j/2065476449.  What is Quaker process? We rely on it to make all the group decisions necessary to maintain our  UFM community and direct its activities. Yet we don’t often discuss in detail what it actually is, and many of us would have a hard time describing it accurately. Most unfortunately, our collective inattention to the requirements and procedures of the process has led to some regrettable interactions and difficult situations. Let us, as a community, recommit to learning how to use Quaker process well. Join us for a Zoom-based time of learning and discussion about the nuances, challenges, and miracles of Quaker process. This session will be facilitated by Nora Percival, co-author of Sacred Decisions: Consensus in Faith Communities.  This workshop will be valuable for all members of the UFM community regardless of level of experience with the Quaker business process.  The Zoom meeting will open at 9:45 and the program

Please forgive RantWoman for wondering, will there be any exclamations of "there is no one by that name in the NPYM directory?"

A small offering of accessibility tips Zoom hosts often don't think to share.

just for people who are tired of chasing a mouse cursor around a screen.

On a dial-in phone:

*6 to mute and unmute

*9 to raise and lower hand

On a PC (Equivalent functions on a Mac start with Cmd or Cmd Shift, RantWoman is not sure which)

Alt A mutes / unmutes

Alt V turns video on and off

Alt Y raises and lowers the digital hand

Alt H opens and closes the chat window

Alt U opens and closes the participants list

And to enlarge the captions, find the up arrow next to the CC icon. Up arrow once to Subtitle settings and hit enter. At the top of the window that opens up there is a line with a blue dot on the far left. Either click on the dot and drag it along the line till the font is the desired size OR just click on the line and move the blue dot with left and right arrows. Hit escape when you are done to go back to the Zoom screen.