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The structure and embedded recommendations were developed based on The Rockefeller Foundation’s legacy of hosting strategic convenings and experience designing 60+ gatherings per year at the Bellagio Center. You’ll find three sections in this template.\nConvening Purpose and Participant Roles: Include these “north star” elements at the top of the document to ensure they are guiding your agenda design choices.\nBellagio Center Convening Modules: Recommended structures to overcome common challenges experienced by Bellagio conveners. Copy and paste these into the moderator agenda template based on what best serves your purpose.\nModerator Agenda: A template for building your detailed “run of show” agenda to be used by the organizer, project manager, facilitator, and other key roles in planning and delivering your convening.\nNote: Blue text indicates instructions for the organizer that can be deleted upon completion of the step.\nConvening Purpose and Participant Roles\nThe purpose of why you are gathering this particular group of people at this moment in time. Include your purpose as a guide for making choices in the agenda and to ensure you communicate with clarity to participants.\nParticipant “types” will each play a specific role in advancing the goals of the convening. Complete the table to align and communicate expectations to those in the room.\nBellagio Center Convening Modules\nThis section outlines the common challenges nearly all Bellagio Convening organizers experience and the tools available to address them. We strongly encourage you to build these signature tactics into your convening agenda, as they have been developed to leverage human centered design, behavioral science, and experience designing dozens of Bellagio convenings. Simply copy / paste the activity and rationale into the appropriate moment in your agenda further down in the document.\nModule 1: Framing and Introductions\nThe Challenge: Reflect on a convening (or a meeting) in which the framing and introductions dragged on for too long. Participants may have felt restless as time that could have been dedicated to substantive dialogue ticked away. Worst of all, you likely didn’t feel any connection to others in the room despite the lengthy introductions.\nThe Solution and Rationale: Crisply articulate the “why” (the convening purpose) and the “ask” (what is expected of the group and of individuals). Offer a tested structure for introductions that not only maintains high energy and pace, but also invites participants to adopt a mindset suited to the convening’s purpose. Question prompts are designed with behavioral science in mind, sitting at the intersection of the personal and professional to spark connection and trust.\nThis module is included in the agenda template below.\nModule 2: Question Prompts\nThe Challenge: If you’ve previously hosted a convening, you’re likely to have had a question-and-answer session that led to far-ranging discussions beyond the scope of what you intended. The typical Q&A format can also prioritize people that are more comfortable engaging quickly, leading to some dominant voices and the exclusion of the diversity of perspective, from everyone, that a convening is designed to achieve.\nSolution and Rationale: Use specific, intentionally designed discussion prompts to draw out everyone’s perspective, and to maintain focus on specificity and action-orientation.\nModule 3: Brainstorming\nThe Challenge: Reflect on your own experience in breakout discussions. When your group sat down to begin, you may have been unclear on what precisely to discuss and wasted time debating the instructions. When you returned to plenary, you likely sat through a low energy series of “share backs” from each group. 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