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Re: [council] GNSO Council meet and greet?


Hi,
Not that it matters, but I think the morning gripe session is a really bad idea, and if there was to be a vote on it, and if I was voting, I would vote against it.
While I was psychological counselor-in-training i participated in several such events. Usually they were done at the beginning of weekend or longer of bonding exercises, where first you tear down the boundaries between people and get into a little from-the-gut truth about your feelings for each other and the [company, organization, environment, board ...). All good stuff to do, but stuff that leaves most people reeling, at least initially. Then you take the people through various exercises to help them get to know and trust each other. At the end of weekend of trauma, stress, laughter, revelation and tears, you get to a point where the bonding has happened and you have a group who know each other better and have a reason to trust. Mostly it works, sometimes it doesn't.
In this case, there will an hour, maybe two, where every one re- inroduces them selves and lays out their favorite gripe or two. And then we all go away and do consensus building work for the rest of day, having ripped little shreds out of each other without any time to rebuild.
As I said, I think it is a terrible idea. I could be wrong, but if was hiring myself out a professional counselor (which theoretically I could do - though I don't have license which would allow me to do third party billing to your insurance companies yet), this is one gig I would not take and would strongly advise against.
As normal, I have stated my opinion, won't advocate for that opinion, and assuming I am still part of council either as a member or as chair will participate in to the best of abilities. 

cheers,

a.


On 16 Sep 2009, at 22:27, Adrian Kinderis wrote:


I also agree with Kristina’s conditions.
I would also like to include Constituency officers as observers for the formal session. They could listen to the discussions but if they had anything to contribute would have to do so through their Councillors. 

Adrian Kinderis

From: Stéphane Van Gelder [mailto:stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, 17 September 2009 2:45 AM
To: Rosette, Kristina; Adrian Kinderis; council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [council] GNSO Council meet and greet?

I fully support the initiative (obviously).
I agree with Kristina that the morning session should not be recorded if we want people to be honest. I am OK with keeping these as closed Council sessions. The idea here is to get some friendly interaction and discussion going within the Council. I do however believe that it may be good to allow constituency officers as well. 

Stéphane


Le 16/09/09 15:23, « Rosette, Kristina » <krosette@xxxxxxx> a écrit :
I would support both sessions on the condition that both are closed and participation is limited to Councilors and relevant staff. (I wouldn't necessarily object to including Constituency officers.)
I also believe the morning session should be neither recorded nor transcribed. Neither is conducive to the level of candor that the productivity of the session requires. 

Having the sessions be open seems likely to decrease their utility.


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From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Council GNSO <council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed Sep 16 03:47:01 2009
Subject: [council] GNSO Council meet and greet?

All,
As most of you will remember, on behalf of the registrars, I suggested on the recent GNSO Council call that we should try to create a number (two) fora in which we could get together and interact on a social and informal level, especially in light of the introduction of new Councillors.
I am not sure how much detail is required but here are my previous suggestions that I sent Glen previously. 

I think we should do two events.
The first would be to create an agenda item on the Saturday morning where we could simply go around the room and introduce ourselves and discuss openly any areas of concern - specifically to do with the Council itself (points of view, voting etc). I know the registrars for example would say that they are a little sick and tired of being pigeonholed simply because they have commercial interests. I'm sure other groups would have pet hates too.
Secondly I think we should have a social gathering on the Saturday evening (perhaps just a few pre-dinner drinks if the budget doesn't allow too much) where GNSO Councillors both new and old and ICANN staff (those that interact regularly with the Council perhaps) can gather once again for the purpose of getting to know new members better and, more importantly, for each Constituency (Stakeholder Group) be able to convey their distinct and perhaps unique perspectives on the Council and the issues that are before us. That said, it is a social event. It is more about getting to know the personalities that make up the GNSO Council.
I believe that we would need a show of support for these ideas in order for this to happen.
Can I please get your ideas/ thoughts/ suggestions or support to the list please? 

Thanks.

Adrian Kinderis