Cohort 1 · 2026 · Session 8 of 8 · Agenda
Meetings
Thursday 9 July 2026 · 11:00–13:00 · Akaltye Room, Desert Knowledge Australia
Timeline
| Time | What | Who leads |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00–11:06 6 min | Welcome back + Acknowledgement Last group session · the session open carries the Acknowledgement - the M12 deck has none by design | Mandy (welcome) + agreed reader (Acknowledgement) |
| 11:06–11:12 6 min | Housekeeping Standard slide · Toilets + Assembly + Cards + Food | Metia |
| 11:12–11:20 8 min | Meetings - why we practise + the menu M12 intro deck · full walkthrough - first and only time, so all of it | Metia (Mandy delivers her slide-2 line) |
| 11:20–11:25 5 min | Mandy goes first M12 deck slide 4 · the source calls this the most important minutes of the slot - don't skip, don't rush | Mandy (Metia stays quiet) |
| 11:25–11:33 8 min | Leadership Bingo - set-up From M12 run sheet · 4 participant card variants + the chair's master sheet | Metia (Mandy takes the chair's seat) |
| 11:33–11:40 7 min | The mock meeting - Mandy chairs The centrepiece · co-fac chairs by deliberate design - chairing is a PWID-accessible skill | Mandy (chair) · Metia (plays a participant) |
| 11:40–11:50 10 min | Bingo! + debrief From M12 run sheet · cards vs the chair's master sheet | Metia (Mandy shows her master sheet) |
| 11:50–12:00 10 min | Try it yourself - pair chairs From M12 run sheet · 2-minute meetings, sillier topic, everyone chairs once | Both walk the room |
| 12:00–12:15 15 min | Lunch Catering on at ~12:00 · facilitators off duty | All |
| 12:15–12:25 10 min | Which card goes to your PATH Plan day? Week-9 prep variant folded in · the bridge to the individual plan days (pending review — CRR-023) | Metia (Mandy anchors) |
| 12:25–12:45 20 min | End-of-program reflection (Layer 3) From M9 · M9_W4 · in pairs · 6 open questions + 5-question Likert · relocated from S6 to the true program end | Both — Mandy partners anyone without a buddy |
| 12:45–13:00 15 min | Program close — appreciations · standing ovation · leave-behind S8 deck slides 16–23 · the real program farewell (relocated from S6) | Mandy closes · Metia + Lukas support |
What we keep vs hold over
What we keep
- This is an EXPANSION, not a compression - M12 was a 30-50 min woven slot, recomposed to fill the 2hr standalone slot the schedule books
- Full intro deck (slides 1-3) + Mandy-goes-first (slide 4) - the 'first time woven' full treatment, since this is the first and only time
- Bingo arc complete and uncut: set-up → co-fac-chaired mock meeting → Bingo + debrief → try-it-yourself pair chairs
- Chair prompt arc complete and uncut: walk the six → pair practice → whole-cohort wrap
- Co-fac-chaired mock meeting protected as the centrepiece - the deliberate PWID-accessible-chairing design, with Metia as the rambling participant
- Week-9 PATH-Plan-day prep variant folded into the back half - card 2 / card 6 / card 3 named for plan days, each participant picks their card
- End-of-program close built from M12's own devices: master prompt 13 (finish with an appreciation), slide 7 co-fac close, individual by-name thank-yous at the door
Held over to next session
- The multi-week weaving structure itself - Bingo round 1 (Week 6) / round 2 + prompts (Week 8) / plan-day prep (Week 9) all collapse into one block; the repeat-week 3-slide deck cut is never used
- 'Pivot back to host module' segment - there is no host module; the slot bridges to lunch and the close instead
- Slide 3 vote's scheduling function (picking which week gets which sub-topic) - repurposed as an energy read since both halves run today
- 'Use one in a real meeting before next session' homework - no next session; retargeted to the individual PATH Plan day
- 'We'll come back to meetings in [next M12 slot]' wrap-up line - dropped; replaced by the plan-day bridge
- Participant chair turns with the master sheet as a Week 8/9 standalone round - the pair-chairs round carries it in miniature today
- Easy Read / remote-community / small-cohort variants - not run, but in the kit if the room needs them on the day (2 cards instead of 4, 4 prompts instead of 6, whole-cohort circle instead of pairs)
Materials needed
- Laptop + projector with M12 intro deck (7 slides) + ported S8 open/housekeeping/lunch slides preloaded - do not depend on cloud (but the day survives without AV)
- 12× Leadership Bingo participant cards (3 each of cards 1-4) + 2 spare - single-use take-home
- 2× Chairing Meeting Bingo Master sheets - laminated, chair + spare, collected for reuse
- Participants bring their own chair prompt + speaking-up cards (made in S7); a few spare blank cards on hand for own-words versions (pending review — CRR-023)
- 12× take-home folders (Bingo card + chair prompt set go in at the close)
- Flipchart with the mock-meeting agenda pre-written (3-5 low-stakes items: welcome · lunch on PATH Plan day · cohort photo · end-of-program celebration)
- Water on the meeting table for participants (source-specified - it's a real meeting)
- Traffic light cards - cohort's own sets at each seat (the chair will prompt their use - Bingo prompt 10)
- Group Agreement poster (from S1) on the wall - final outing
- Butcher's paper, blu-tac, pens, fat markers, name labels
- Per-session (traffic light) feedback forms × 12 + SW feedback forms × 6
- Camera (only with Photo Permission Form consent - cohort photo is on the mock agenda, consent still applies)
- Catering for ~12:00 per dietary requirements - confirmed headcount day-before
- First aid kit
- M9_W4 End-of-Program Reflection sheets — 1 per participant (relocated from S6)
Participant flags + needs are on the Emergency contacts and Run sheet (facilitator-only) — kept off the agenda to keep this one scannable.
Adapted for Central Australia by DAS, in partnership with Inclusion NT under the PATH MOU 2025–26. Original curriculum © Inclusion NT.