The booklet could be optional for first-time conferences. The SAM booklet is sometimes sold at the conference to help defray cost of producing the booklet and may bring in a small amount of income to the conference. This could happen several times during the conference over breakfasts and lunches, or during a designated time. Conference Celebration Includes dinner, entertainment, participant dancing. If skits are used they should be rehearsed and monitored to be politically correct making sure they do not offend any culture or individual life style.
Music early makes for liveliness at the start.
Think Tanks Ongoing and interactive practical research opportunities that network members to profound new dimensions of our practice. It is helpful to have a research question around which participants can brainstorm, discuss and come to come conclusions. Research may continue throughout the year and may feed into the IAF academic journal. For some nations, having their first IAF style conference the Rally can be a powerful occasion to launch a Continental, National or Regional Network of Facilitators. Task Force Meetings , an E-Team responsibility, are held during the IAF Rally.