How to use this guide

Each week will include the text that you see on the public curriculum as well as
- The key points we'll want to hit each week
  - Note these are just guidelines, we recommend keeping these in mind but not sticking to them too hard and not telling Fellows these are the key points (as this might cause Fellows to overoptimise for these goals rather than what they're interested in)
- Tips of how to run this session
- Some questions to ask Fellows
- Some suggestions for icebreakers to run at the start of the session
Make sure to check this guide before running the session as I will post any updates and reminders for the week in the guide
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<aside> 💡 This is definitely more of a guideline so don't feel like you have to stick to this religiously

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Week 1: Introductions

This week will focus on outlining how the Fellowship will work, answering any questions you have, and setting intentions for the Fellowship.

Fellows get to know each other and build rapport
Set the tone of the Fellowship: participants should feel like they are allowed to decide what is best to learn about, and then to learn it
Optional: here there may be substantial differences in impact between different ways of doing good, and this might motivate us to think hard about the best opportunities, e.g by aiming to do so during this Fellowship

I recommend spending as much of this session as you can socialising.
Chat socially whilst people are joining then tell people the plan for the session
Start off by talking generally to people about the Fellowship and the goals described in the Facilitator Guide
Then split into random breakout rooms of 2 or 3 for 5 minutes so fellows can get to know each other, repeat this until every fellow has been in breakout rooms with every other fellow (this should take only 1 or 2 repetitions)
- People could consider these questions
- What common interests do we have?
- What brought us to EA?
- What are we hoping to get out of the Fellowship?
- Are you a cat person or a dog person?
  - Does it matter?
- If you could magically develop one mundane skill (something another person has learnt before) what would it be?
- and similar...
Jump back into the main room and chat about what you talked about
Feel free to go off topic as the goal is building rapport