Class 5: Meeting Preparation and Format
Homework Assignment
Name: ____________________________________
Please put an X on the relevant lines, answer the questions,
and send your homework to James preferably by Wednesday evening:
james@[Link]
______ Yes; I am willing to have my name, location, and email address on the Participants List.
______ No; I am not willing to have my name, location, and email address on the Participants List.
NOTE: If you have a question, please put it in the body of your email.
1. If you currently lead a group or have led one in the past:
How have you prepared for your meetings?
Please indicate which of the following steps from the “How to Prepare” section on the handout you
take in preparing to lead the meetings.
a) ______ I really engage with the section ahead of time (see the list on the handout)
b) ______ I’m in Course Companions and I study the Text commentary and listen to the recording
c) ______ I ask for guidance
d) ______ I set my goal for the meeting
e) ______ I get in the right state of mind (have some quiet time beforehand; get out of image
mode and into miracle mode; keeping in mind the equality, holiness, worth of the students, and
remembering that you receive, not from your performance, clarity or ability to entertain, but
from their learning)
What element or elements do you especially want to emphasize as you prepare to lead a meeting in
the future?
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2. If you don’t lead a group now:
How do you feel about preparing in the way set out in the “How to Prepare” section?
What element or elements from “How to Prepare” do you especially want to emphasize as you
prepare to lead a meeting in the future?
3. The Circle’s study group format: How do you feel about this format and the idea that, as as
study group leader, you are here to take your students on the journey the Text takes them from
their old thought system to the new one?
4. The Supplementary Readings (Optional):
______ I read “The Importance of Being Prepared.”
What did you learn from it that will help you as a study group leader?
______ I read “How I Prepare to Lead a Group.”
What did you learn from it that will help you as a study group leader?
From “Study Group Leader Training, Level 1”
Presented by Robert Perry and Mary Anne Buchowski
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September 19–November 14, 2020
Offered by the Circle of Atonement [Link]