29th chat, April 21 2015: anti-oppressive facilitation strategies

moderated by @alyciaicyla, @captain_maybe, @kellymce
Storify (pdf, html) by @oksveta

Readings:

• On Facilitation, Char Booth: https://infomational.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/on-facilitation/
• Anti-Oppressive Facilitation – Making Meetings Awesome for Everyone, the AORTA Collective: http://aorta.coop/sites/default/files/ao_facilitation_resource_sheet_july_2014.pdf
• Calling IN – A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable, Ngọc Loan Trần: http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2013/12/calling-less-disposable-way-holding-accountable/

Discussion questions:

• Q1. What is good facilitation? What strategies make for a good meeting or discussion? #critlib
• Q2. Tell us about a meeting that reinforced systemic power dynamics or oppressions (e.g. not on an individual basis). #critlib
• Q3. How can participants intervene when there is troublesome facilitation? How can you effectively call out bad behavior in a mtg? #critlib
• Q4. How might we apply feminist/anti-racist theory in discussions? Could librarians adapt/apply the Aorta guidelines? #critlib
• Q5. What resources have you used for facilitation? How have you taught yourself to consciously facilitate? #critlib