I’m glad to hear this. Can you tell us at least a little bit about what kind of general structure to anticipate? To give a few examples of the level of thing I’m asking about:
Maybe it’s being planned as Boot Camp trainings paired with teaching manuals, to create and then support people who can run LW Meetups as Dojos. Maybe even with “ranks” and objective standards of excellence, if you really want to extend the martial arts metaphor. (In martial arts, it’s common for instructors of local dojos to go to regular seminars where high-ranking masters refine and update the skills of the local-dojo instructors.)
Maybe a Khan Academy setup, where SIAI offers some kind of general guidelines about what sort of results (both positive and challenging) to expect from certain kinds of group activities. So this would be less centralized and standardized than the first option.
Maybe just a set of descriptions of exercises that seem to work well at cultivating certain aspects of Awesomeness. Perhaps paired with key references (e.g., Cialdini).
I’m not offering suggestions per se, though you’re very welcome to take them. I’d just like to know what level of organization to expect so I know what my job is with meetups I am or will be involved in. For instance, if it’s basically the last of the examples I give above, I’ll end up wanting to apply my experience with research in educational psychology to basically develop the guidelines mentioned in the second example. But if that’s what you guys are doing anyway, I’d like to know so I don’t waste my time!
So can you tell us on that level of scope what you’re cooking up?
I’m glad to hear this. Can you tell us at least a little bit about what kind of general structure to anticipate? To give a few examples of the level of thing I’m asking about:
Maybe it’s being planned as Boot Camp trainings paired with teaching manuals, to create and then support people who can run LW Meetups as Dojos. Maybe even with “ranks” and objective standards of excellence, if you really want to extend the martial arts metaphor. (In martial arts, it’s common for instructors of local dojos to go to regular seminars where high-ranking masters refine and update the skills of the local-dojo instructors.)
Maybe a Khan Academy setup, where SIAI offers some kind of general guidelines about what sort of results (both positive and challenging) to expect from certain kinds of group activities. So this would be less centralized and standardized than the first option.
Maybe just a set of descriptions of exercises that seem to work well at cultivating certain aspects of Awesomeness. Perhaps paired with key references (e.g., Cialdini).
I’m not offering suggestions per se, though you’re very welcome to take them. I’d just like to know what level of organization to expect so I know what my job is with meetups I am or will be involved in. For instance, if it’s basically the last of the examples I give above, I’ll end up wanting to apply my experience with research in educational psychology to basically develop the guidelines mentioned in the second example. But if that’s what you guys are doing anyway, I’d like to know so I don’t waste my time!
So can you tell us on that level of scope what you’re cooking up?