Banter Nights - Structure & Basic Rules

Banter Nights - Structure & Basic Rules

• Read the banter rules aloud at the start of each banter night (to remind us all & for any new folks who come)

               Rules of banter proper:

               1. Share the stage equally;

               2. Pay attention to your own speaking/listening ratio;

               3. Ask questions and spread the conversation with people who haven't spoken

                   as much yet;

               4. Engage with the points from the previous person who spoke when possible.

               [For those who are curious, here are our original rules of banter proper created

                in September 2010: http://rippingdiscourse.blogspot.com/2010/09/rules-of-banter-proper.html]

• To begin the topic, first share around the full circle with each person's initial thoughts/questions on the topic, 1 minute each.

• Host will implement a hard stop time (9'ish pm, up to host), and will give the group a 10-15 minute warning to wrap up final thoughts.

• Have a closing circle to check in about how we did with our rules/group dynamics.  Then each person share a topic idea for the next banter (to be added to a Doodle poll; so, bring your idea(s) each time!).  Also, set the date for our next meet-up before everyone leaves.

• Then, if some people want to stay beyond that to discuss more or chit chat, that's up to the host.

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We worked as a group at Banter #44 on the above.  We may modify these things as a group & will no doubt keep having conversations about the above, depending on how things are working, but for now this is our new game plan to see how it works.