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Congratulations on launching this project. I am needing to make teaching commitments
for 2010 which at the moment I have choice over but very soon need to commit. I really want to join your training in 2010
and I imagine you are holding date commitment off until you perhaps have enough of a group to start it. However, I just
wonder if you know the format?

1. Whether it will be weekday or weekend?
2. Whether it will be a group that will start as a closed group?
3. If there would be any flexibility if I commit to my teaching dates and find I then have a date clash with your training?

Many thanks

Dear Jo,

thanks for your enquiry.
Whether the one-year training group already happens next year, all depends on how quickly the news of Communitas spreads and gets to the right people.
In order for a weekly (or maybe fortnightly) training group to work for you and fulfil its purpose, we estimate that we need a group of at least 18 people, ideally more. For participants to get involved in the group dynamics and to get a solid experience of leading a group as well as practising a wide variety of leadership skills, it’ll need to be that kind of size. If it happens, it’ll be weekly (or fortnightly) on a weekday, probably something like 1pm - 8pm, probably Mondays (less likely Tuesdays), in or near Oxford. It’s unlikely to be weekends. It may initially need to start with a pilot on a monthly basis, or some scaled-down version; we may do some taster events and then close the group, but this is all speculation.
Hope that gives you enough of an idea.