So you’re interested in training crew callers!

Table of contents

Purpose

The purpose of the crew caller trainings is to “produce” stewards of crewing at the Commons, who help cultivate these goals in themselves and their crews: Goals for the Crewing Program

Object Level Goals (”What” is done)

Concretely, the contents of the training should address topics like:

• Getting a crew started
  • Getting some clarity about what you want
  • Putting out a call for a crew
• Running a crew
  • What to do during a crew session
  • Navigate challenges during a session
  • Navigate challenges outside of a session
    • What if someone stops showing up/communicating?
    • What if crewmates have tension/conflict?
• Cultivating the crew and its members
  • Modeling speaking authentically and listening deeply
  • Sharing leadership and power
  • Encouraging people to speak up
  • Encouraging people to call a crew next time around in an attuned way
• Doing so from a place of experimentation, exploration, holding intentions lightly, curiosity, mystery, iteration

“Meta” Goals (”How” it’s done)

• Sustainability - “How do we make trainings sustainable for organizers and participants?”
  • How do we make it engaging?
  • Can we show rather than tell?
• Iteration - “How do we make trainings more targeted, effective, rich?”

Session Design (Round 2?)

TBD

Session Design (Summer 2024)

What We Did

1 crash course in “here’s what a crew session is like”, and follow up session to navigate fears/concerns/alternatives/etc - a session “A” and a session “B”. Most crew leads only did session A. There was a lot of individual outreach to leads to get a sense of common blocks/fears.

Cons: overwhelming, too accelerated intimacy → discomfort/defensiveness/closedness, a lot of “white glove” 1:1 DMs/conversations (doesn’t scale)