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### :eyes: **Your role during session**
- Observe how your studio approaches the assessments honest and reflective, or rushing through?
- Observe how your studio approaches the assessments honest and reflective, or rushing through?
- During the studio assessment, note whether they're aligned on their ratings or if there's disagreement about where they actually are
- Watch for emotional responses during the closing this program has been intense, and endings can surface unexpected feelings
- Participate in the zine activity and closing you're part of this community
- Watch for emotional responses during the closing this program has been intense, and endings can surface unexpected feelings
- Participate in the zine activity and closing you're part of this community
### 👆 **Your role after session**
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### :world_map: **Context**
This is your last formal PS meeting with this studio. The goal is to help them complete their assessments with honesty and specificity, and to set them up for continuing this work without you. Resist the urge to sugarcoat or wrap things up neatly. The most useful thing you can do is help them see clearly where they are strengths and gaps alike.
This is your last formal PS meeting with this studio. The goal is to help them complete their assessments with honesty and specificity, and to set them up for continuing this work without you. Resist the urge to sugarcoat or wrap things up neatly. The most useful thing you can do is help them see clearly where they are strengths and gaps alike.
### **👆 Before the session**
- Review your notes from the full program what patterns have you noticed? What's shifted? What's stayed stuck?
- Review your notes from the full program what patterns have you noticed? What's shifted? What's stayed stuck?
- Review the studio's Community Rule draft, values map, and any other documents they've produced
- Prepare your own honest assessment of where the studio is you'll use this to calibrate if their self-assessment seems off
- Prepare your own honest assessment of where the studio is you'll use this to calibrate if their self-assessment seems off
- Think about what you want to say to this studio at the close. This matters.
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If they haven't completed the personal assessment yet, give them quiet time to work on it now.
This is private you don't need to see it or discuss it. But you can offer:
This is private you don't need to see it or discuss it. But you can offer:
- "Take your time with this. Be honest with yourself."
- "Where have you grown? Where do you still feel uncertain?"
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Work through the seven areas together. For each, the studio rates themselves 1-5:
1. **Considering/Reflecting** Thought about individually, not discussed as a team
2. **Discussing Collectively** Talking together but no decisions
3. **Brainstorming** Actively generating ideas and exploring options
4. **Sifting/Sorting** Narrowing down, making choices, working toward alignment
5. **First Draft of Documentation** — Something written down — a policy, process, or shared agreement
1. **Considering/Reflecting** Thought about individually, not discussed as a team
2. **Discussing Collectively** Talking together but no decisions
3. **Brainstorming** Actively generating ideas and exploring options
4. **Sifting/Sorting** Narrowing down, making choices, working toward alignment
5. **First Draft of Documentation** Something written down a policy, process, or shared agreement
**Go through each area:**
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**5. Conflict & repair**
- "Do you have a conflict process even informal? Have you used it?"
- "Do you have a conflict process even informal? Have you used it?"
- "What tension have you named? What's still unnamed?"
**6. Program reflection**
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**Your role during this:**
If a rating seems inflated gently push:
If a rating seems inflated gently push:
- "You rated governance a 4, but last week you hadn't discussed membership or removal. What's your thinking?"
If a rating seems deflated acknowledge progress:
If a rating seems deflated acknowledge progress:
- "You rated conflict a 2, but you named and addressed a real tension two weeks ago. That's meaningful progress."
If there's disagreement on a rating that's data:
If there's disagreement on a rating that's data:
- "You see yourselves differently on this one. That's worth exploring. What does each of you see?"
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#### **Close (5-10 min)**
This is your moment. Share what you've observed over the program what you're proud of, what you're hopeful about, where you think they'll need to stay vigilant.
This is your moment. Share what you've observed over the program what you're proud of, what you're hopeful about, where you think they'll need to stay vigilant.
Be specific. "You've grown" is less useful than "In Session 2, no one would say what they actually needed financially. By Session 6, you had that conversation and it was hard but you did it."
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If they rush through the assessment:
- "This is the last structured reflection you'll do with support. Take the time it's worth it."
- "This is the last structured reflection you'll do with support. Take the time it's worth it."
If they rate everything high:
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- Ensure the studio assessment is submitted (goes to Baby Ghosts)
- Ensure each person has completed or will complete their personal assessment
- Share your own PS observations with the program team what this studio needs going forward, what to watch for, where they're strong
- Share your own PS observations with the program team what this studio needs going forward, what to watch for, where they're strong
- Thank the studio. Mean it.
## :triangular_flag_on_post: **Red flags to watch for**
- A studio that can't complete the assessment because they disagree on where they are this reveals deeper alignment issues
- Rushing through to "get it done" avoidance of reflection
- Ratings that don't match what you've observed denial or lack of self-awareness
- No plan for continuing governance practices after the program high risk of drift
- One person taking responsibility for everything post-program that's not a coop
- Signs that the program surfaced issues the studio hasn't resolved make sure the program team knows
- A studio that can't complete the assessment because they disagree on where they are this reveals deeper alignment issues
- Rushing through to "get it done" avoidance of reflection
- Ratings that don't match what you've observed denial or lack of self-awareness
- No plan for continuing governance practices after the program high risk of drift
- One person taking responsibility for everything post-program that's not a coop
- Signs that the program surfaced issues the studio hasn't resolved make sure the program team knows