Session 2
You split one
- Who
- The two of you, around a real session, with the halves agreed in advance.
- Where this sits
- Direct and Discern
- They leave with
- Half a session run, with you in the room
- A sheet covering their half, filled by you
- One thing they will do differently in stage three
The arc: 100 minutes
- 15 min
Before. Split the session by beat, not by time, and write down who has which.
Which beat do you want, and which one are you avoiding?
- 50 min
The session. You hand over at the agreed beat and do not take it back.
- 10 min
Straight after, you place the rubric for their half only.
- 20 min
Debrief. They go first again.
Where did you want to say something and not say it?
- 5 min
Name one thing for stage three. One.
Look for
- The handover beat arriving and you filling the silence. It is four seconds and it is the whole exercise.
- Their half run faster than yours. A first half-session usually compresses, and the beats that get cut are the asking ones.
- Questions turning into explanations halfway through the sentence. Very common and very visible from the back.
- A learner going to you rather than to them during their half. Redirect with your eyes, not your voice.
- Them asking you a question mid-beat. Answer it after, not during, or the handover was not real.
- Their half has a gate check in it or it does not. If they did not ask anyone how they would know, that is the one thing for stage three and everything else waits.
Tips
- Split by beat rather than by minutes. "You take the board and the pair swap" is a handover; "you take the last twenty minutes" is a countdown.
- Give them the beat with the asking in it. The build beats run themselves and teach less.
- Sit down when your half ends. Standing reads as available and the room will keep coming to you.
- Running short, skip your own half entirely and let them run more. The debrief cannot go.
Print before the session
You run half and they run half, agreed beforehand, handed over in front of the room.
The hard part is not their half. It is the four seconds after you hand over, when a question goes unanswered and you are the only person who knows you could have answered it.