 Hello. I'm here with Mikayla and Sean to Returning Complexity Weekend Facilitators and this will be their facilitator introduction videos. So let's just start with a hello and any personal introduction you'd like to provide. So hi, my name is Mikayla Amsch. I'm a biomimicry practitioner, communication specialist and a great fan of complexity in all its forms. Nice. Sean, I'm a serial organizer for Complexity Weekend Returning Facilitator, just an all-round enthusiast of the complexity weekend and complexity communities. I just love complexity in all of its forms in all the different fields. By day I work as a principal data scientist at Microsoft and then I do a lot of kind of like investment, advisement, just other fun projects to learn as much as I can in my short life. Well, we hope it's a long one. In a single word or sentence, what is exciting to you about complexity and complexity weekend in 2022? My favorite is the community, the people, the way people come together, the different disciplines, time zones, relationships to complexity applied, a theoretical, and putting all this together and making a great stew out of it. Nice, excellent. Yeah, I think for me this cycle, it's just seeing the organization evolve and seeing a lot of teamwork happen in internal kind of committees within the complexity weekend community and how those committees are starting to interface with the biannual weekend cohorts and just pulling people on to already functioning teams to kind of learn complexity by doing. We've got a lot of really exciting stuff coming up for this cycle with like complexity weekend branding and like a manifesto kind of mission statement that keeps us aligned through deep time and even some stuff that goes into organizational structuring for the community. So I'm just excited to kind of have working teams to pull people on to for all of us to be learning by doing. Awesome. So what is it to participate in complexity weekend? What is the cohort experience? What are people registering for? And we'll each share just one different facet on it. Yeah, I think the most important is the discovery of different takes on complexity from different perspectives. It can be philosophical, it can be medicine, it can be biomimicry if you are on my team and all types of different ways of interacting between the disciplines and it's going to be great this cycle because there's lots of different perspectives showing up. Bring yours. Definitely. We need yours at the table for sure because we're ultimately talking about real problems that we want to help resolve in the world and so we need everyone from every walk of life, every perspective to show up. Yeah, I think for me it's just the interactions are always front and center. Every conversation I join, every person I bump into, it surprises me and kind of gives me a new take or new way of seeing the world and ultimately it's about trying to embody complexity in a real system and tinker with it and kind of learn as much as I can in that weekend time frame by actually trying to collaborate with others or potentially joining a team and committing to something a little deeper than a weekend in terms of a deep dive. I mean, there's teams that I'm still on from past complexity weekends. So yeah, that for me is part of the background. It is just the best part of this room. And just to give a little organizers perspective there, what people are registering for is yes, joining for the weekend, which is September 23 to 25, 2022, there will be continuous activity in a gather video chat space much like the one that we're in now. And don't worry about missing anything, you're going to be able to join and leave as works for you. So all time zones in availability are welcome there at the weekend itself. Also in the weeks leading up to the weekend in the first weeks of September, there will be some sessions around people like meeting each other in one on one conversations, also sessions on the team formation process and talking through that starting to seed some teams and some facilitation training to embody peer facilitation and the kind of community that we'd like to see. So what are people registering for a few weeks of optional pre weekend events, the weekend itself as much or as little time as they'd like to participate from few hours to many hours. And then where you go after the weekend is totally up to you. We hope people stay involved in the community, joining the monthly heartbeats or coming for another weekend cohort or just participating with their team on their own time. Sean. I think the only thing I'd add to that is it's not a typical conference. You're not going to be passively consuming material about complexity. There will be facilitated live sessions where portions of that might be broadcasting information, but really it's all about the interaction. So you really should come prepared to engage and learn through interaction. That's a really important mindset. Awesome. And just a last question and area of discussion for us. You're both multi returning facilitators. So what are you excited to do or bring or be in this cohort? My favorite is this time I'm co facilitating with a few people who are stepping up and daring to come with their perspective. And I'm very happy to hold their hand. And I'm sure they're going to be great, great sessions as well as having my own session on branding for complexity weekend. I've got a few different angles this time. I'm going to try out a couple different sessions. Some that have a team attached. One of them with Michaela based on some work she's done, that's really amazing on potentially rebranding complexity weekend in a certain direction. So just including as many voices and perspectives as we can on this idea, this kind of, you know, complex idea of like an emerging brand for this global community practice. That'll be really fun. But also, like I was mentioning earlier, like a kind of a manifesto or like a guiding principles document that we might even publish for complexity weekend that just make sure through deep time, you know, even if there's conflict in different organizing perspectives or facilitation approaches or event plans that we have something guiding us, that'll be really fun to work on together. And then I've got I just one other that I'm excited about kind of a continuation of the session I did last time with evaluating a project's riskiest assumptions, but potentially co-facilitating with Daniel and Jessica and others in the teams committee who've come up with a fun way to kind of predict back of the envelope success rates for teams. And I think it'll be fun to combine with that. Awesome. Anything else you'd like to add? I think everybody should come. You'll love it. And your words will come. I think a final thought for me would be, you know, the facilitators are there to really help mentor you as an individual and as a team. So really utilize them as a resource. You know, it's not just the videos that they're producing here, that content or the live sessions or, you know, the office hours. It's not that structured. It's really a much more open-ended relationship that you can form. I agree and would close that in a participatory community, the facilitators are there not just to broadcast information, though they may, as Sean has brought up, but to facilitate something. And that's your participation, your complexity journey. So if you feel like you're on a complexity journey, or you might want to be, or you're curious about what it entails, then the facilitators are those who, I guess, will be holding hands. And then I'm just thinking, well, who's dragging who? Or are we walking side by side? So it's a great space. And thank you, Makayla and Sean, for contributing so much. And for this video. So see you all around. See you soon. See you soon.