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For Session Leaders - Thinking about hosting/leading a Brekaout Session. Read the tips!
For Session Participants - Read the tips for making the most of attending Breakout Sessions!
A breakout session is a 45-minute(ish) time dedicated a specific topic or purpose. Breakouts sessions could focus on ideas for organizing, introducing existing groups or organizations, electoral politics, micro-trainings, questions, requests for assistance, event planning, etc.
Read this page, and see the breakout session tips on the Readings page.
Anyone in attendance will be invited to create a breakout session for a topic or purpose. Ideally, breakout session topics align with one of the 13 Key Strategies on the readings page.
Depending on how long the summit is and how many attend, there will be 2-5 time blocks. Each time block will be about 30-60 minutes long.
Multiple breakout sessions can occur in each time block. This gives all attendees a choice of which breakout sessions that would like to attend (floating between breakout sessions is fine, as is just hanging out by the coffee).
For example, an event scheduled to start at 9:15 may have these start times for breakout sessions:
Block 1: 10:15 (multiple breakout sessions)
Block 2: 11:00 (multiple breakout sessions)
Block 3: 11:45 (multiple breakout sessions)
The location for the summit will accommodate multiple different areas for smaller group discussions. These might be separate rooms or just tables.
The person who creates a breakout session will choose the time and place for their session during the opening session of the summit.
This is done by writing the title of the session on large piece of paper, sharing on the microphone in *ONE MINUTE* what the session is about, and then placing a paper with the title of their session on the schedule wall. Then, choose a time and location.
Ideally, breakout session topics align with one of the 13 Key Strategies on the readings page.
People can create breakout session about anything they want. Examples include:
We are already working on ____ and want to share and recruit
I/we need help with _______
I will do a short training on _____
I'd like to spend our time calling our federal representatives about issue X. I have their phone numbers with me.
Our team is coordinating voter registration. We'd like to connect with others doing this work.
We'd like coordinate a rally on X topic
I'm thinking about running for office and would like to learn more about it
Who is working on X, Y, Z issue(s)?
I have an idea about ____ and would like some input from others.
How do we get more people to these summits?
I'd like to learn/teach about how to use [insert technology, e.g., Signal]
etc
Go to the Readings page to see tips for a successful breakout session.
Questions? Email kai [at] simplerleadership [dot] com