Dear Dean,
thank you very much for your response! I find your list very helpful - as you
are doing the same exact thing with the same purpose as we are.
One remaining question to clarify. Do you book people in advance for
constellation or offer it to people who show up. Do you find that it is
important to pre-screen people (interview) before bookings?
Thank you very much
inessa
On Jan 22, 2013, at 2:07 AM, Dean Mason wrote:
Hi Inessa,
I'm not familiar with the term 'constellation circle', but I think it might
be what we established here in Melbourne, Australia, last year.
We have a strong peer supervision group here and last year a number of us
decided to run a series of seven public workshops that we shared
responsibility for. It went very well and this year we are intending to do
the same.
Below are the guidelines we are using this year and which form the basis of
an agreement between each participating facilitator. I hope you find them
helpful, don't hesitate to email me directly of you have any questions.
1. Eligibility criteria for participating facilitators
Be a paid up member of the POOL group (the name of our peer supervision
group).
Have own professional indemnity insurance.
Be willing to facilitate solo, or in collaboration with another.
Accept the obligations detailed hereunder.
2. Purpose of the workshop series.
Provide an opportunity for trained but less experienced facilitators to
facilitate public workshops.
Provide an opportunity for experienced practitioners, who may not want
to run their own public workshops, to facilitate in a group setting.
Provide an opportunity for people who do not know much about
constellation work to come and experience it at a low cost.
Expand our peer supervision work in the POOL meetings to encompass more
observations of each other in practice.
Develop a stronger sense of the POOL community¹ and provide a stronger
experience of shared learning and training.
3. General guidelines for the workshops
Each workshop is to be managed and conducted by one facilitator, or two
facilitators working as a team.
All participating facilitators will be involved in allocating
facilitators to scheduled dates.
Each workshop will be held on a Sunday, from 10am to 4pm.
Each workshop to be held at 200 Alma Rd St Kilda.
The seven dates booked for 2013 are: 17 Mar, 26 May, 7 Jul, 4 Aug, 15
Sep, 27 Oct, 24 Nov.
4. Obligations of participating facilitators
Attend at least two workshops in addition to the one they run.
Recruit at least one person to at least three workshops.
Ensure each participant in their workshop completes the pre-workshop
agreement.
Be responsible for the venue on their day, for confirming the booking,
making payment, collecting keys, cleaning up,etc.
Hold their own professional indemnity insurance.
To issue receipts to participants of the workshop you are running (with
or without GST, depending on personal situation).
In the event that the series makes a financial loss, to equally share
in making good that loss. (We are starting 2013 with over $800 in surplus
workshop funds, so the risk of this is minimal.)
Contribute at least one article to the blog managed by Hania.
5. Marketing
The series will be named the POOL Systemic Constellation Workshop
Series.
(reminder: POOL = Peer Orders Of Love)
All facilitators share the responsibility of recruiting participants to
all workshops.
Hania will continue managing the blog at
www.constellationseries.wordpress.com
http://www.constellationseries.wordpress.com/> .
All participating facilitators are encouraged to write at least one
article for the blog during the year.
A central email address will continue to be used to help coordinate
bookings: fcpoolseries@xxxxxxxxx fcpoolseries@xxxxxxxxx> .
6. Financial
Participant fees for 2013 to be set at $50 per person.
Each facilitator can make their own decision regarding discounts for
their workshop.
No bulk discounts will be offered for people attending multiple
workshops.
Rent is fixed at $189.50 per workshop, including public liability
insurance.
Each facilitator is expected to take $20 from the fees to cover
refreshments.
All monies received to be receipted by the person running the workshop
on the day.
Surplus funds generated by the workshop series will be used to promote
future workshops.
Surplus funds are to be kept by the POOL group in a Workshop fund,
separate to the current Membership fund.
7. Participating Facilitators (so far)
Hania Gorski
Karen Tweedie - organisational only
Doug Smith
Dean Mason - organisational only
8. Review
The workshop series will be reviewed in mid 2013.
Dean
Dean Mason
+61 3 9398 6262
+61 402 846 696
From: Inessa Mil'berg inessa45@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: ConstellationTalk ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, 22 January 2013 7:35 PM
To: ConstellationTalk ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ConstellationTalk] A Question on Starting a Circle
Dear All,
I have a question in regards to starting a constellation circle. A group of
my peers - who completed the facilitator training and have done some limited
constellation work - and myself are starting a constellation circle in our
town. We already have two established constellation circles in town with
long-term experienced facilitators who book in advance and charge fairly
hight prices. Our vision is to offer constellation services at low cost to
the wider community (basically to cover the cost of the rental), and to be
able to practice facilitating.
The initial vision we had was that anybody can come on a walk-in basis, at a
cost of about $10-15 - the cost is the same for everybody, including those
who might have a constellation. When people come, two assigned facilitators
for the evening will lead the circle and offer constellations. Whoever
raised their hands, would have a chance for a constellation.
The concern raised by some members of our group was that we are running a
risk of having a potential client to be a "handful" that we will not be able
to cope with (and have a potential liability) - and that we should
pre-screen (interview on a phone) and book constellation clients.
Perhaps it is a legitimate concern? My feeling is that it takes away from
the free flow and availability of this work that was originally envisioned.
We would very much appreciate advice from this group - it seems that people
here have a lot of experience in starting constellation circles.
Thank you very much,
inessa mil'berg
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