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SUMMARY:Inclusive Meetings That Work:  Online, hybrid and neuro-inclusive meeting practice
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Inclusive Meetings That Work:  Online, hybrid and neuro-inclusive meeting practice\n\n10/28/26 10:00 AM EST\n - 10/28/26 11:00 AM EST\Description:\nThe second session focuses on how to make meetings more inclusive, engaging and effective in practice, particularly in online and hybrid environments.\n\nParticipants will explore how different brains, communication styles and access needs affect meeting participation. We will look at how to create psychological safety, reduce pressure to perform, support quieter voices, and design meetings where people can contribute in more than one way.\n\nThis session will also cover practical online meeting facilitation, including managing energy, using chat and interaction well, building in pauses, supporting decision-making, and helping meetings end with clarity.\n\nLearning Objectives:\n\n\n	Identify practical ways to make meetings more neuro-inclusive and accessible.\n	Use online meeting tools such as chat, polls, pauses and shared documents to support participation.\n	Create meeting structures that reduce cognitive load and increase clarity.\n	Support different communication preferences, including spoken, written, reflective and asynchronous contribution.\n	Facilitate online and hybrid meetings with more confidence, kindness and focus.\n	Use simple scripts and techniques to manage common meeting challenges.\n	End meetings with clearer actions, ownership and next steps.\n\n\nPresenter:\n\nHelen Rimmer is the founder of The Kind Brave Leader and Empower: The Library Skills Collective. She is a kindness and wellbeing coach, facilitator, Strengthscope Master, certified systemic team coach, and holds a PGCert in the Psychology of Kindness and Wellbeing at Work. Helen brings over 20 years’ experience in library and higher education leadership, alongside her work supporting individuals, teams and organizations to build kinder, braver and more sustainable workplaces. Her work focuses on kindness-led leadership, burnout prevention, boundaries, wellbeing, inclusion and creating humane cultures of work.\n\Details:\nWho should attend: Anyone wanting to know more about running inclusive meetings\nCompetencies: Communication, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion, and Leadership\n\nNon-Member Cost:      $40\nNEO-RLS Bronze Member Cost:  $24\nNEO-RLS Silver Member Cost:   FREE\nNEO-RLS Gold Member Cost:    FREE\nNEO-RLS Individual Member Cost:  $20\n\nCan't attend on the date or time listed? Sign up anyway!  This webinar includes archive access for later viewing at your convenience.\n \nIt’s never too late to save your library money. NEO-RLS Memberships are pro-rated! Call us today to join.\Location:\nOnline via Zoom\n\n,
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Inclusive Meetings That Work:  Online, hybrid and neuro-inclusive meeting practice<br /><br />10/28/26 10:00 AM EST - 10/28/26 11:00 AM EST<br />Description:<br /><p>The second session focuses on how to make meetings more inclusive, engaging and effective in practice, particularly in online and hybrid environments.</p>

<p>Participants will explore how different brains, communication styles and access needs affect meeting participation. We will look at how to create psychological safety, reduce pressure to perform, support quieter voices, and design meetings where people can contribute in more than one way.</p>

<p>This session will also cover practical online meeting facilitation, including managing energy, using chat and interaction well, building in pauses, supporting decision-making, and helping meetings end with clarity.<br />
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<strong>Learning Objectives:</strong></p>

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	<li>Identify practical ways to make meetings more neuro-inclusive and accessible.</li>
	<li>Use online meeting tools such as chat, polls, pauses and shared documents to support participation.</li>
	<li>Create meeting structures that reduce cognitive load and increase clarity.</li>
	<li>Support different communication preferences, including spoken, written, reflective and asynchronous contribution.</li>
	<li>Facilitate online and hybrid meetings with more confidence, kindness and focus.</li>
	<li>Use simple scripts and techniques to manage common meeting challenges.</li>
	<li>End meetings with clearer actions, ownership and next steps.</li>
</ul>

<p><strong>Presenter:</strong><br />
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<img alt="" src="https://neo-rls.org/photos/Helen_Rinner_06172026094016.PNG" style="float:left; margin:5px 15px; width:100px" />Helen Rimmer is the founder of The Kind Brave Leader and Empower: The Library Skills Collective. She is a kindness and wellbeing coach, facilitator, Strengthscope Master, certified systemic team coach, and holds a PGCert in the Psychology of Kindness and Wellbeing at Work. Helen brings over 20 years&rsquo; experience in library and higher education leadership, alongside her work supporting individuals, teams and organizations to build kinder, braver and more sustainable workplaces. Her work focuses on kindness-led leadership, burnout prevention, boundaries, wellbeing, inclusion and creating humane cultures of work.</p>
<br />Details:<br /><font face="Verdana" size="2"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Who should attend: Anyone wanting to know more about running inclusive meetings</font></font><br />
<font face="Verdana" size="2"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Competencies: Communication, Equity, Diversity, &amp; Inclusion, and Leadership</font></font><br />
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Non-Member Cost: &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; $40<br />
NEO-RLS&nbsp;Bronze Member Cost:&nbsp; $24<br />
NEO-RLS Silver Member Cost:&nbsp; &nbsp;FREE<br />
NEO-RLS Gold Member Cost:&nbsp; &nbsp; FREE<br />
NEO-RLS Individual Member Cost:&nbsp; $20<br />
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<font face="Verdana" size="2">Can't attend on the date or time listed? Sign up anyway!&nbsp;&nbsp;</font>This webinar includes archive access for later viewing at your convenience.<br />
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<font face="Verdana" size="2"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><strong><font face="Verdana" size="2"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><em>It&rsquo;s never too late to save your library money. NEO-RLS Memberships are pro-rated! Call us today to join.</em></font></font></font></font></font></strong></font></font><br />Location:<br />Online via Zoom<br /><br />,  
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