Gniteem Sdrawkcab (Backwards meeting)

All in all it was a memorable meeting for all.  I look forward to my second backwards meeting  . . . in about 5-10 years J  

TM Craig signing off…

Oh woops, I was still in backwards mode.  Backwards mode you say… why is that, read further and find out:

Last week we had 4 guests and about 10 members who all had about the same amount of experience with a backwards meeting.  It started with President Mike ‘closing the meeting’ and making a few comments about how this was a great meeting.  We all appreciated his fortune telling abilities.

We then had the evaluation portion of the meeting.  Steve Wilcox and his team reported on how well (or poorly) each of the speakers did “before they spoke”. 

Table topics was interesting!  The speaker was called on (based on the ah counters list of who ‘spoke’) and gave their TT speech, then TT master Eric created a question.  Very interesting  :)

We continued with Speaker 2, Ashley who gave a very interesting speech about responding too quickly with thoughts or issues with a person.  She provided an example of how jumping to conclusions almost caused a dual between Abe Lincoln and an advisory.  Lincoln learned to think about the consequences of a response … prior to sending it.  Ashley gave a similar story about not responding to a person while angry.  A good lesson for all of us.

Speech #1 was given by Sarah Mammon about the sub-conscious mind and how it controls many of the things we do without thinking about them or even realizing we are doing them.  Things like breathing or driving from one place to another and not remembering making the turns . . .

This was very appropriate for the backwards meeting where we all had to THINK about each part of the meeting with our conscious mind!!!  Little things like the tense of a verb while describing a speech we hadn’t yet heard.

All in all it was a memorable meeting for all.  I look forward to my second backwards meeting  . . . in about 5-10 years J  

TM Craig signing off…

While the backwards meeting might have tested some of us, we are hoping to spice up the meetings a bit every quarter and do a different format.  We will let you know when the next alternative format meeting will occur… stay tuned!