GHC Presentation Policy

Presentations to the GHC membership will occur every other month.  All presentations to the Gay Healers Circle must be proposed to the Steering Committee and approved by the Steering Committee.

Presentation Goals:

The Steering Committee’s goals for selecting presenters are as follows:  

• Bring the highest quality, most relevant and compelling information possible to the membership.
• Allow GHC members to present their practices to the members, so long as those presentations will be done in a highly professional, engaging and interactive manner.
• Bring in speakers who may not be LGBT or members of the GHC in order to present the most accomplished thinkers, teachers and leaders in their field to the GHC membership
• Create presentations that are interactive and experiential, rather than lectures

Procedure to Propose Presentation Idea:

The Steering Committee welcomes any and all presentation ideas for review.  The following criteria and procedures must be met for a proposal to be considered for presentation.  

• A member must attend at least one GHC meeting before submitting a presentation proposal.
• All proposals must be submitted to the Steering Committee Presentation Coordinator
• All presentations must follow established GHC guidelines
• Presenters may not directly market their services, events or products during their presentations
• Non-members may be invited to present to the GHC if they have a message or practice that the Steering Committee feels would be interesting or relevant to the membership, and that the presentation would be of extremely high quality
  

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Presentation Guidelines

(This information is provided at every GHC meeting.)

Our aim through presenting the various modalities practiced by our membership is to enlighten and empower all our members and thereby strengthen our network of support and healing. To this end please adhere to the following Presentation Guidelines.  

• All questions, proposals and suggestions pertaining to Presentations are to be directed to the local GHC Presentation Coordinator. This is a member of the Steering Committee who has been selected for this role.
• Interested presenters must have attended at least one GHC gathering prior to submitting and/or facilitating a Presentation (exceptions made only through the approval of GHC Steering Committee).
• Presentations involving more than one Presenter must select a point person that the GHC Presentation Coordinator agrees is appropriate for leading the presentation.
• Presentations are intended to be informative and experiential and to involve attendees at the meeting, and should not take the form of a lecture.
• We ask that NO specific counseling or feedback of a personal or sensitive nature be offered during the public presentation WITHOUT acknowledged permission of said attendee.
• These presentations are not meant to serve as mere promotional opportunities for the Presenter’s services, events or products.  However, presenters are welcomed to provide – and announce availability – of any promotional materials for their services and events at the close of their presentation.
• Such marketing materials will be located in our designated INFORMATION AREA only. They are NOT to be distributed before, during or after the Presentation. Only materials that pertain directly to the presentation may be distributed prior or during the Presentation.
• Once the GHC Steering Committee has scheduled a presentation, the Presenters Form along with an outline that details the nature, structure and featured content of presentation MUST be submitted to GHC Presentation Coordinator no later than THREE WEEKS prior to scheduled presentation date. EXCEPTIONS must be agreed to by the GHC Steering Committee.
• In the case of group presentations, we ask that all email correspondence between fellow presenters that relate to the coordination and presentation of the scheduled event be “cc’d” to GHC Presentation Coordinator.
• A Presentation Feedback Form is provided to our attendees for our internal purposes only; however results may be obtained by Presenter(s) upon request.
• The GHC does not make any contact information on our members or guest in attendance at any gathering available to any parties other than the Steering Committee.  Only the information members have made public on the GHC website can be accessed by other GHC members.

Please note that the GHC Steering Committee reserves the right to cancel, postpone or remove a participating presenter at its discretion at any time prior to or during a Presentation.

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Presentation Proposal Requirements

(This information is provided at every GHC meeting.)

1)    Please read the GHC Presentation Guidelines prior to submitting a presentation proposal.

2)    Create a one page summary of your presentation

• Briefly explanation of the nature of your healing modality
• How you will present the subject matter
• Describe the audience participation process if any
• Outline the timing of each process/phase of presentation

3)    Submit the outline to the GHC Steering Committee Presentation Coordinator via his/her email address on the GHC website.  (Click on the Presentation Coordinator’s profile and send a "message" and include a copy of the outline itself).  This submission via the GHC website will notify the Presentation Coordinator of your submission.

4)    The Presentation Coordinator will contact you once you have submitted your one page proposal to discuss your presentation and whether or not it has been chosen for presentation to the GHC.

Please bear in mind that we have many potent and wonderful practitioners participating in the GHC that have and are submitting Presentation Outlines. Many factors go into the GHC Steering Committee's consideration in Presentation scheduling as we desire to have a balanced mixture of focuses and types of modalities to present to the GHC members and friends, and on occasion, will have guest speakers as well.  Since we meet every other month there are six presentation opportunities for our regularly scheduled gatherings annually.