We are setting up a poetry group and are looking for a volunteer to help facilitate the group. Your volunteer role will include promoting the group to residents and encouraging attendance, helping to set up the room for the session including moving tables and chairs if neccessary. Set up any equipment for the group, searching poetry websites, connecting to speakers to play audiobooks. Being comfortable with IT equipment and navigating the internet would be a plus for this role. You will also prepare refreshments for the group and tidy away at the end of the session.
During the session you will read the poems to the group and start the discussion afterwards with a couple of questions prepared to get people talking. You will need to be comfortable reading aloud to a group of people, and as a poetry group facillitator you will be skilled in steering the discussion and keeping the conversation on topic and flowing. You will have a love of poetry and an interest in sharing this with group members. The group will run collaboratively and you will choose the poems for the sessions together, and encourage group members to read the poems aloud if they feel comfortable to do so.