The Town Hall Meeting is an excellent way of bringing communities together to collectively discuss, explore and find solutions for the needs and problems in its midst. Our panelists are members of a team that produce such Meetings in the L.A. SM Community. This presentation provides a template on how to choose topics and panelists, handle positive and negative feedback, and present solutions. We will close with a mock Town Hall Meeting where YOU are the players!
How you will benefit from this presentation:
You will learn how to utilize this time tested forum for to explore issues in their own communities.
How this presentation will arouse you:
As far as we know, this topic has never been presented at LLC. Town Hall Meetings provide an excellent way not only for community leaders to work together, but to bring together all segments of a community, including its fringes, that may not have every gathered in one place before. Town Hall Meetings provide a new type of forum for the leather community to explore issues.
In the first half of the presentation, the panelists discuss how to: choosing topics and panelists; handling both positive and negative feedback, garner ideas from attendees, present recommendations to the community. The biggest WOW will come in the second half, where we’ll put on a mock Town Hall Meeting where those in attendance will get to be moderator, panel members, security, time-keeper, handle mic-duty, and become Town Hall Meeting Attendees.
This proposal clearly fits into conference tracks, clearly helps the conference meet its goals, contains clear learning objectives, creates a "wow" reaction because of topic and elements of presentation, contains clear descriptions of activities to foster interaction among attendees, addresses something new for the leather community, and clearly addresses topics and questions of diversity within the leather community. In addition, the presenters have previous presentation experience, the overall quality of the proposal is professional, and the proposal submission was written with much thought.
About the presenters:
Daddy Bo has been active in the LA Leather Community for the past eight years and identifies himself with traditional Leather values. Bo has served as Coordinator for Orange Coast Leather Assembly (OCLA) since 2005 and presents demos and workshops at leather events all across the country.
George Wong has served as Public Relations Officer of Avatar Club LA since joining in 1995. He produced LA Leather 2007 and 2008 events. He presents and demonstrates various leather/fetish topics around the country and speaks at college level classes promoting the leather/fetish culture.
Ms. Diana has been practicing BDSM for nearly 25 years - about 17 of them with Threshold in Los Angeles. She is currently the coordinator and is also a member of the Los Angeles Leather Coalition. She is active in the greater BDSM/Leather/Fetish community in southern California and most recently as a member of the Town Hall Meeting Team.
slavegirl debbie has been involved in the Leather/BDSM Communities for the past seven years and affiliates herself with traditional leather. She joyfully serves the community through education, presenting workshops all over the West Coast and is also known for the event announcements she posts all over the net.
slave karen has been in the LA BDSM scene for approximately fifteen years. She’s an active member of several private dungeons in the area, performs in local fetish clubs to further education and has recently begun to attend leather events. She also helps educate fetish-club owners about SM Safety.