The Speaking Freely program, can also be run effectively without all these components, but if you can provide them, they are useful in adding a measure of realism. The venue can be someone's living room or a small public room. Every week, you bring your own videotape on which your talks for the evening are recorded. You then take the tape home at the end of the evening to view at your leisure. The following week you bring the same tape back, cued to the end of the last session, and that evening's talks are added to it.
Smaller meetings require proportionally less time.
During the Speaking Freely program, each person has two opportunities to speak. Typically, the first talk is for three minutes and the second is for five. People usually have no idea of what they're going to speak on until they show up for the meeting, and often, not even then. Often, your topic is triggered by something that someone has said in a previous talk. The subject matter is not important.