For video or audio content, just watch and listen hard, and maybe take a few notes of things that make you react.
With text support material, you are encouraged to read it ahead of time, as well as the discussion points (see the home page). You may jot down some notes, opinions, further questions, etc. and come to the session.
You may not be used to reading academic text. Relax, you are not alone. Here are a few recommendations from a non-specialist:
- Don't come to the session without reading the text, but it may not be necessary to read the whole text to participate.
- If the text is very academic, read the intro, skip the methodology and go to the results report and conclusion. You may go back to the methodology from here.
- By all means, the purpose is to have serious fun, and "think together" about a subject that matters to us. You need no credentials to be part of it.