The Seminar participants are the experts. While participants do extensive reading during the Seminars, visiting experts and lecturers are not usually a part of this experience. The participants of a Seminar are the body of experts. One's ideas must stand on their own, be debated, accepted, or discarded without reference to one's position or education. There is never just one role group represented in a Seminar.
Seminars are self-governing entities with organizers serving the group.
After providing the initial structure and on-going logistical support, they work to transfer the governance and direction from themselves to the participants. By the end of the Seminar, it is fair to say that the Seminar becomes self-governed with the coordinators taking direction from the Seminar group. The experience is at least as important as the product. Even so, the report provides an important documentation of the experience and serves to validate for each of the participants the energy and effort they expended. We also firmly believe that such an ongoing conversation can only result in better education for all of our children.