Another Awesome Educational Event!

Lion Ambassadors and Friends Open Parliamentary Procedure Event

The whole group!

A group of students in the Parli Pro class hosted a workshop for the new Lion Ambassadors incoming executive board and some of their friends last week! They were able to reach eight college students for 45 minutes in order to explain parliamentary procedure to students who, like the UPUA representatives, also have to have a firm grasp on parliamentary procedure in order to succeed at their general body meetings.

The goal of the session was to teach the Lion Ambassadors and friends various facets of parliamentary procedure. The group started off with the history and background of parliamentary procedure in order for the participants to understand where it all came from. The facilitators then headed into the Lion Ambassadors’ governing documents and then focused on four learning objectives that would be most beneficial for the Lion Ambassadors: the main motion, amendments, debate, and limit or extending the limits of debate. 

In action!

Evan considers the event a great success because the facilitators received good feedback from the attendees, the group of students were diverse in their understanding of parliamentary procedure, and because the session was a good length of time. Similarly to the previous group, Evan thought it would be best to show a video of an FFA or similar parliamentary procedure competition. As he said, “As much as you explain it, it’s difficult to understand without understanding the concept because most groups don’t use parli pro to a high degree.” 

As advice to future AEE 297A students, Evan said, “If you have knowledge of the groups that are present and how their meetings are run, relate what you’re saying back to a particular example from their meetings.” He added that it was helpful to put things in the Lion Ambassador context once the team finished explaining a facet of parliamentary procedure.