When you come to our event…

… assuming that you are the sort of person that likes this sort of thing, then:

• It will be for you and not for us*
• It will have a clear purpose…**
• … and we’ll make sure that we communicate what it is…
• … and do our best to act in line with it…
• … and hope you’ll agree that it’s important.
• We’ll administrate things well
• We’ll tell you what you need to know ahead of time (in good time)
• You’ll know what’s supposed to be happening and when***
• We’ll know who’s doing what
• We’ll present well
• We’ll stay focused
• You will feel that you got a generous portion – more than you paid for
• We’ll keep to time…
• … because we respect you…
• … and we’ve done the hard work of getting rid of the many good ideas that didn’t fit…
• … and because we’ve built in enough slack to allow for the unexpected.
• We will show up with energy…
• … and do things that help you to show up.
• You will be actively involved
• You may need to work hard, but it will be fun, and it will be worth it
• You will take away things that you can use
• Things will be well structured/made/designed…
• … but we won’t be too precious…
• … and we will never do things just for show.
• We will never do things just to fill the time
• You shouldn’t find yourself having to do something that’s just totally unreasonable****
• There will be a sense of momentum…
• … but you won’t feel hassled or rushed
• We will be available to talk to you
• We will have spare pens
• Some things will go wrong, but we’ll all be okay with that, because of all of this
• We will ask you, and ask ourselves, how we can make it better…
• … and next time, it will be
• You’ll be glad you came

What have I missed?

*Okay, it’s a bit for us, because this is what we love to do. But it’s really for you.
**Although there will be a degree of idiosyncracy and interesting marginalia
***Apart from when you’re not supposed to know
****But if you do it’s because it’s unavoidable – and we’ll tell you why, and we’ll empathise