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Workshop Abstract
Rituals for Virtual Team Meetings
💻 Delivered Virtually
📅May 25, 2021
Presenters:
Sean Park
Susan Jack
Sarrah Lal
on behalf of Mohammad Zubairi, Shawn Locke, and Emily Block
Objectives:
By the end of this session participants will be able to:
Think about their virtual meetings as designed opportunities to increase engagement, connection, and creativity.
Co-lead a small group through a small ritual.
Identify opportunities to facilitate rituals in virtual meetings in professional practice.
The Problem:
Virtual team meetings are challenging contexts to support human connection, participant engagement, and creativity. Beyond developing an agenda for a meeting, meeting chairs or facilitators might not think about how to intentionally design meetings as experiences to engage people in meaning making, relationship building and accomplishing specific tasks.
Our Approach:
Rituals and ritual design provides a framework and activities for opening and closing meetings, helping participants identify their purpose for attending, creating connection with others, and better accomplishing work-related tasks (eg. problem-solving). Â
Methods:
This workshop uses rituals to show where and how they can be used in a range of typical virtual work meetings. After an introduction to the role and value of rituals, breakout rooms will enable participants try out a ritual. A debrief with other teams will allow reflection and connection back to clinical, research, and teaching work.