2023 Schedule – Burn After Meeting

Friday, 3 Nov 2023

Field trip to Temple of Tranquility in Boulder.

	Ellingwood A	Ellingwood B	Red Cloud
8:00–9:00	Sign-in
9:00–10:00	Ellingwood A: Plenary Session (welcome, ground rules, get acquainted)
10:00–11:30	State of the Regional Network Presentation and Discussion Findings of the 2022 official Regional Event Afterburns and Regional Contact Recap Reports By:	Insurance Talk Insurance basics & prospects for an insurance purchasing group By:	Roundtable: Keeping our communities safe, Excluding members from community events How do we keep our communities safe but also keep being radically inclusive? By:
11:30–13:00	Lunch break
13:00–14:30	Zero Fault Learning Environment Emergency response training based on HSEEP By:	No ONE Leads Discussing an approach to leadership on big build projects. By:	Roundtable: Dealing with Landowners and Local Officials Share questions, concerns, experiences, and advice on working with landowners and local officials when planning events By:
14:30–16:00	Double Oh Seven: logistics and human considerations in participant ejections Ejecting participants is a challenging, multi part process. Many regional burns may benefit from building knowledge and competence in these areas. By:	Good Governance and Other Corporate Concerns How to keep your organization functional, legal, and sustainable. By:	Roundtable: “Leadership Lifecycle”—Nurturing, Supporting, Planning Let’s talk about the people who make our all-volunteer events go By:

	Ellingwood A	Ellingwood B	Red Cloud
9:00–10:30	Emergency Management for Producer-level Volunteers Imagining how unexpected misfortunes might strike an event, and then planning how to prevent or mitigate those challenges. By:	Participate in Politics How can Burning Man’s ethos of “NO SPECTATORS” can be applied to politics? By:	Roundtable: Supporting artists How we support artists in our community. By:
10:30–12:00	Nonviolent Communication and De-escalation Covering 5 basic concepts of NVC By:	Cat Herding: The Art of Volunteer Management A look at PlayaSoft VolDB, used by Apogaea By: Rachel Fish	Roundtable: Community Hubs – Making and Maintaining Year-Round Connections How can we support community that supports our events? By:
12:00–13:30	Lunch break
13:30–15:00		Burning Bright: Servant Leadership and the Power of Community An exploration at the intersection of servant leadership and the transformative principles of Burning Man. By:	Roundtable: Onsite Technology—Why are we burning like it’s 1986? We take thousands of dollars into areas with little cell reception and try to cobble together stable on-site communications. Can we do better? By:
15:00–16:00	Closing mixer