Thank you, Maha. This is really powerful as I think of my own FLC program. It occurs to me that you’re proposing a first step which explores and validates personal learning goals as much as the group goal. (But also _sets_ those goals in the first meeting or so, because there’s a risk of that exploration never reaching a conclusion.)

With this personal goal-setting done, it might become more palatable to think about learning activities which might accommodate make-up work, or “homework” between meetings. Because it wouldn’t be quite so much about doing work for the group, but to advance your own stated desires.

Kickoff has been kind of a problem for some of the groups I’ve sponsored, on both the “too little structure” and the “too much externally imposed structure” sides. (Though I’ll say I’m more satisfied with what came out of the groups with too much structure than too little.) This might be a path between those problem zones.