London Girl Geek Dinner 12

May 30, 2007 News Comments Off

DATE : 30th May 2007 7:00pm – 9:00pm
WHERE: Saatchi & Saatchi London Office
HOW MUCH: Free Event: Sponsored by Saatchi & Saatch About the event!

Brighton Girl Geek Dinner 4

May 1, 2007 Brighton, England, Locations Comments Off

DATE: Tuesday 29th May 2007, 7:00pm – 10:30pm

WHERE: The Eagle Pub (125 Gloucester Road) in the North Laine area of Brighton.
Upcoming: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/194524

HOW MUCH: Free

Fishbowl Discussion

This is a chance for everyone at the Brighton Girl Geek Dinner to have a say if they want. Under discussion – what it means for us to be Girl Geeks.

Instead of a speaker this month we will be running a fishbowl session so that everyone can get involved in the discussion. A fishbowl session is a structured activity designed to facilitate discussion in larger groups.

In our case we will set up five chairs for discussants. Four of the chairs will be filled with people ready to start the discussion. The fifth chair will remain free. A moderator will summarise the topic: “What it is to be a Girl Geek” and then the four starting participants start discussing the topic. The audience outside the fishbowl listen in on the discussion.

Anyone from the audience can join in the conversation at any time by joining and sitting in the fifth chair. At this stage someone who is not contributing can step out of the semi-circle, leaving another chair free. Anyone from the audience can join the chat if there is a spare seat. If all the chairs are full someone must voluntarily free up a chair by returning to the audience. The audience is not allowed to contribute, only to listen. If you wish to add something you can come and sit in the free chair and join in the chat.

This will just be a chance for us to hear more about the people who attend the dinners and their thoughts on being a Girl Geek. Noone needs to contribute if they do not choose. Although the discussion will be started it will not be led by any one person, it will be formed by all of us – here, we are not listening to expert speakers, we are all the expert speakers.

At the end of the session, when we run out of time, we will all get a chance to reflect on the discussion that we have had.