I am the person that has the duty to write up the discussions that occurred around the topic of the Facilitator Enhanced Audio Visual (FEAV) Symposium. I was present for about the first half of it, and will be working from the notes of others for the second half. I have been traveling and kept my notes where I could write this up as soon as I was able, so here goes: “NR” means Neal’s comments.
The first cut was a big hit! We loved the animation of the graphs, the expanded visuals in the expert’s videos, the vitality of the whole video experience for us as the audience.
Comments from Neal included:
- They intend abundant diversity in the presenters and in the visuals.
- Casting is an important challenge soon to be taken up.
- The FEAV will probably be produced in modules, giving us as facilitators lots of opportunity to tailor the presentation to each Symposium audience and presenters.
- The FEAV will likely be more condensed, facilitating even shorter versions which would be appropriate for some audiences.
- There will still be lots of interaction for the audience, including opening/closing sacred space, unexamined assumptions, declaration cards, local connections and other exercises.
- This will be the first “Attention People of Earth” kind of presentation.
- English subtitles would be helpful as English is a second language for many people around the world.
- Visual Upstream-Downstream exercise could be powerful, NR saw Julia’s cup of coffee recitation as a series of vivid images.
- Discussion of the challenge of presenting III and IV How Did We Get Here and The Universe Story, which are “lecture-y” and abstract. NR saw an idea of having Brian, Drew, Thomas et al presenting the concepts themselves on video.
- “Follow the dollar”, show the route our dollar takes from end user to manufacturer – an upstream/downstream of the money we spend.
- A youth version of the FEAV.
- More Van Jones in the modules.
- YouTube style uploads of graphics, films etc on the ATD site.
