Dear Mentors,
Thanks for your Energy in forming a vibrating and respectful community. These are some guidelines to be followed in your exchanges:
COMMUNICATION
In the preliminary contact by email, please make sure to do the following:
- Demonstrate openness and interest regarding the new, aspiring team member; try to be affirmative and display a problem-solving orientation in regard to the person’s request(s).
- Cc the main referent of the GPN in emails (currently Francesca Ferrando)
- Ask the new, aspiring team member to provide a brief bio and – possibly – a picture to the person in charge of uploading info into the GPN website (currently Matigan King)
- Eliminate sexism and other stereotyping terms when addressing people, as suggested by the ‘Guidelines for Non-Sexist Use of Language’. (https://www.apaonline.org/page/nonsexist)
MEETING
When organizing the first online meeting, please make sure to do the following:
- Have at least two members of the GPN team present to welcome the aspiring team member.
- Make the other person feel comfortable by asking for preferred pronouns.
- Feel free to express your joy for this new addition to the team.
- If you are a GPN member appointed as the ‘fellow-tutor’ of another new member of the team, make sure to organize some regular contact with her/him/them in order to make the other person(s) feel supported and taken care of. Meetings should be not scheduled too often either, to make sure that this task does not feel like a job, but as a volunteer activity. At first you can have a meeting once a month, if you need to. After 2 or 3 months, you can have a meeting every 6 months, more or less.
- Please, make sure to mention that the Global Posthuman Network fully runs on volunteers, so we cannot offer financial retributions to our interns. The commitment on the side of the interns, as for all of us, is serene and mild. If sometimes you have less time, that is perfectly fine as well. The minimum requirement for interns is: 2 months. After being mentors for at least 3 months, interns can ask to be appointed a specific project and become research assistants. They are free to stop their position any time they wish.
- Please, mention our "Rules": always enjoy, never stress out about this, and make sure to use this opportunity to learn, connect with the global community and pursue your vision!
- If all this sounds good, please ask the intern(s) to send us a short bio and a picture, we will add them to the GPN as our Intern(s).
Thanks!
Thanks for your Energy in forming a vibrating and respectful community. These are some guidelines to be followed in your exchanges:
COMMUNICATION
In the preliminary contact by email, please make sure to do the following:
- Demonstrate openness and interest regarding the new, aspiring team member; try to be affirmative and display a problem-solving orientation in regard to the person’s request(s).
- Cc the main referent of the GPN in emails (currently Francesca Ferrando)
- Ask the new, aspiring team member to provide a brief bio and – possibly – a picture to the person in charge of uploading info into the GPN website (currently Matigan King)
- Eliminate sexism and other stereotyping terms when addressing people, as suggested by the ‘Guidelines for Non-Sexist Use of Language’. (https://www.apaonline.org/page/nonsexist)
MEETING
When organizing the first online meeting, please make sure to do the following:
- Have at least two members of the GPN team present to welcome the aspiring team member.
- Make the other person feel comfortable by asking for preferred pronouns.
- Feel free to express your joy for this new addition to the team.
- If you are a GPN member appointed as the ‘fellow-tutor’ of another new member of the team, make sure to organize some regular contact with her/him/them in order to make the other person(s) feel supported and taken care of. Meetings should be not scheduled too often either, to make sure that this task does not feel like a job, but as a volunteer activity. At first you can have a meeting once a month, if you need to. After 2 or 3 months, you can have a meeting every 6 months, more or less.
- Please, make sure to mention that the Global Posthuman Network fully runs on volunteers, so we cannot offer financial retributions to our interns. The commitment on the side of the interns, as for all of us, is serene and mild. If sometimes you have less time, that is perfectly fine as well. The minimum requirement for interns is: 2 months. After being mentors for at least 3 months, interns can ask to be appointed a specific project and become research assistants. They are free to stop their position any time they wish.
- Please, mention our "Rules": always enjoy, never stress out about this, and make sure to use this opportunity to learn, connect with the global community and pursue your vision!
- If all this sounds good, please ask the intern(s) to send us a short bio and a picture, we will add them to the GPN as our Intern(s).
Thanks!
