Comments and feedback requested - New Attendee Orientation ...

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This posting is from: kumiko yvonne watanabe
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2001 - that was Debbie Sage that led the Dam tour.

Miss her.

I kinda remembered all of us had to be in male mode.


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This posting is from: kumiko yvonne watanabe
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10 yrs ago, there was no orientation, but DLV was very different.

What helped me the best was being connected to someone more experienced,
which developed into the big sister program, that stayed with me until I
was comfortable, and began having confidence to do things on my own
initiative and by myself.. It followed the lead by example concept.

The big sister is instrumental is introducing the new person to other
attendees as the ice-breaker, coach, teacher, cheerleader, someone to
lean on, or even the madame dominix to push the new person to a event,
for the new person attending. Also orienting the new person on a
one-on-one approach with their big sister - a padawan to the jedi,
disciple to the teacher concept. This mentor has to be someone willing
to sacrifice their DLV time to help the new person, and that is asking
quite a bit.

But pairing can develop deeper friendships outside of DLV, and a starter
to get to know others for new people. It can also be good to get advice
from a more experienced person. It helps to bounce ideas off of similar
thinking minds.

Orientation is one afternoon, meeting the organizers and other new
people for that time. Orientation may be forgotten hours after, or just
the next day, including faces without makeup or with makeup and just a
different wig.

New people should be paired with returnees that are willing to teach or
give time to show the ropes to the new person, and the start of the
pairing can be the orientation, so things are not so easily forgotten.
Orientation should be they way to integrate someone new to the
returnees.

I remember printing every ones scheduled signed up event on a paper for
each attendee and given out at the opener. Only to find the time as in
days I put into this, cost of paper and printing, and the opener evening
wasted, when 90% of the printed individual sign-ups were on the floor,
left on the bar, left on the tables, thrown in the trash at the end of
the opener event. Did it improve getting people to their scheduled
signed up event? No. It went straight to the trash, and no one cared. It
wasn't my idea to do this, I was just a volunteer to help.

The problem with the orientation is its limited occurrence, and some new
people arrive after such orientations. But at the same time,
orientations cannot be done every day, so the big sister approach is
better, where being told once can be forgotten, but gently reminded will
keep things in memory longer.

Another is the level of CDing. Most may be brand new, but others more
experienced elsewhere and such isn't needed other than the explanation
of what to expect and the limits or boundaries DLV has set up. The more
experienced ones may not need any help from a big sister too.


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[Rebeccacd43]

Hi everyone

I'm attending the event flying in from England and cannot wait

For me the orientation meetin is a good idea as I was in Vegas 10 years ago and things will have changed since then. I think a mix of a presentation and mixing together initially will help. For me Inwant to make the most of the event and get to know new friends early on.

I'm a confident person and can say hello and also confident in going out as Rebecca.

Looking forward to seeing everyone soon

Rebecca

[Katie Wilson]

Hi Rebecca.
Please feel free to ask any questions you may have about the schedule, protocol or purpose of any activities @ DLV 2016.
Write them down if you like and use them at the orientation gathering. Or better still if you have some ready now then let us know right here in MY DLV discussions. This way we can give you an answer now and also use them for our presentation on March 28th.
We obviously won't think of everything that the new folks would like to know as we are only volunteers and not professionals so anything you have for us now will be helpful for to us to make a better presentation to those who are in attendance when the time comes.

Thanks.
Huggers. Katie.

[Michelle V]

I don't think I would of ever gone in guy mode. The older I get the less I like guy mode.