25: Top 3 most important facts about Coderetreat facilitation

This episode marks one year of the Coderetreat Facilitation podcast. To celebrate the anniversary - and to prepare for the upcoming GDCR20 I will recap my top 3 most important facts about Coderetreat facilitation:

• What is the Coding Dojo Mindset? (from episode 10)
• What is your primary job as facilitator? (from episode 13)
• Focus on pairing (from episode 15)
• What is the best way to facilitate? (from episode 5)
• Why are there four questions when I said "top 3"? ;-)

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Thank you all for staying with me for the last year.

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15: The intro, facilitate forming pairs and difference to a Coding Dojo

This episode contains:

• What to put into the intro for the day?
• How to facilitate forming pairs?
• Which are the differences between organizing a Coderetreat and a Coding Dojo night?

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13: Primary job of facilitator, first session without pairing and supporting participants' learning journey

Today I talk about the following questions:

• What is your primary job as facilitator?
• Is it allowed to run the first session without any pairing?
• What is Ping Pong?
• How to support participants to continue their learning journey after the Coderetreat?

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Managing the Difficulty of Coding Exercises
• A box of things to take from the Coderetreat

Thanks to Christian Haas for feedback on audio quality of this podcast.

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10: Coding Dojo Mindset and Game of Life is mandatory

In this episode I am answering

• What is the Coding Dojo Mindset? (What is the core mindset of a Coderetreat?)
• Is Game of Life mandatory?

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Alex Bolboaca: The Coderetreat Problem Is Not The Problem

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05: Day structure, facilitation styles and non developers showing up

In this episode I am talking about

• Coderetreat Day Structure,
• the best way to facilitate and
• non developers participating.

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Mentioned in this episode: Structure of a Coderetreat

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