"If the group is an art form of the future, then convening groups is an artistry we must cultivate to fully harvest the promise of the future." (Jacob Needham, et al. "Centred on the Edge")

Some of you who have called in for coaching sessions have asked some very important questions about the basics: how to keep a conversation aligned, how to heep the pacing and timing of a session, and how to "hold" a group in clear focus so to have an effective session.

Our discussion on Organizing participatory and interactive events brought together a variety of experiences from different regions. Here are some of the main topics that were discussed during the two weeks of online conversation:

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Sarah Weinman is an editor for GalleyCat, mediabistro.com's publishing industry news blog, the Baltimore Sun's crime fiction columnist and writes "Dark Passages," a monthly online mystery & suspense column for the Los Angeles Times Book Review. She finds herself moderating and participating in plenty of panels,