Class Descriptions
Social Time
Bring your own beverage and snacks!
Queen's QuarranTEA
Cruise Director: Queen Vera of the West, OP
Day/Time: Saturday Noon
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Description: In this time of trial and uncertainty, We all do our part to keep connected and engaged. Join Her Majesty as she brings her 2nd Saturday of the month tea to our lunchtime hour. There might be Shenanigans!
Newcomer Welcome Chat and Networking
Instructor: THL Christel Leake
Day/Time: Sunday Noon
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Description: Are you new to the SCA or the West Kingdom? Do you just like meeting people? Come join on in for some good old fashioned social time.
The It's-OK-to-Aspire-to-be-a-Pelican Social Club
Cruise Director: Mästarinna Ula Brennasdottir, OP, Madame Ghislaine, OP, OL
Saturday Evening
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Description: The club title says it all. Come enjoy social time with a gathering of like minded individuals. There will be general chat on the theme in the core session and Pelicans will be available for speed-mentoring - one-on-one or in small groups in break-out sessions. Come meet Service Path Positive Peers and have a chance to ask the questions you ask everyone and maybe get the answer to that question you've been a little afraid to ask.
Classes
Up to 40 minutes of lecture. At least 10 minutes of Q&A. Break out rooms available for classes that run long.
Building Buzz
Instructor: Sir Helga skjaldmær, OP
Moderator: Lady Kitta Refr
Description: Marketing of events improves attendance, event quality and morale of the SCA. Attend this class to learn how to apply marketing skills and gain marketing benefits. Our instructor has a passion for applying her marketing skills to the SCA to help events and individuals shine.
Strategic Planning
Instructor: Dame Lyonet de Covenham, Laurigera
Moderator: Baroness Kelsey Aylesworth, OP
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Description: Looking to lead your branch, household or guild in the right direction as we find our way towards the post-COVID never-normal? Our instructor will help you acquire corporate strategy tools that you can use to improve your SCA groups at all levels
Exchequer Reports Demystified
Instructor: Master Edmond of Surrey, OP
Moderator: Baron Seamus of Rivenoak
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Description: Financial reporting is vital to the health of all branches and financial reports. What's more the reports of the smallest branch impact the reports of the grandest Kingdom. Numbers intimidate some but they do not need to. Our instructor has serves as the current Kingdom exchequer and is prepared to help you make heads and tails of all the reports you need to support your group in one of the most vital roles in the SCA.
Public Speaking for Those of Few Words
Instructor: Landgraf Heinrich von Melk, KSCA, OP
Moderator: Lord Shimon Levi ben Yitzhak HaKohen
Description: Public speaking is a crucial skill that not everyone is naturally drawn to exercise. And yet, several of those who prefer NOT to be the center of attention have learned to excel in this arena. Some skills to help you convey information clearly and effectively even when you would rather not.
Baroness 101
Instructor: Baroness Elieth de Salazar
Moderator: Baroness Finna kottr Godormsdottir
CLASS SLIDES
Description: Do you wonder what is takes to reign over a Barony? Our instructor has conducted extensive interviews with Baronesses from 2 Kingdoms and will be sharing the insights she gathered.
Event Photography as Service
Instructor: Madame Ghislaine, OP, OL
Moderator: Baron Seamus of Rivenoak
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Description: Photographs are crucial for promotion, moral, memories and documentation. An event photographer is foundational to those all. Come learn how to share your artistic talents with others while helping to build the Kingdom.
Approaching the Edges - Involving fringe players in the mainstream
Instructor: Shintaro Masashige Minamoto- Kensei
Moderator: Mästarinna Ula Brennasdottir, OP
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Description: Those on the edges of events and the edges of the Society are a vital resource who embrace the SCA but are not always understood as being a crucial part of it. On the other side of a philosophical divide stands those who play a different game but are no less committed. Our instructor has played for decades in multiple Kingdoms where he has helped to carve out a niche for those on the edges and helping them to contribute to the broader game. Come learn how to bridge the divide in a way that is understandable for all.
Virtual Events - Scheduling Across Time Zones
Instructor: Lady Tellina di Giuseppe da Fiesole
Moderator: Baroness Finna kottr Godormsdottir
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Description: SCA Without Boarders has changed how we think about events and the ability to play across time zones requires service folk to have some new skills. Our instructor has scheduled several collegia since March with instructors from a vast swath of Kingdoms. Come learn her tips and tricks.
Finding Joy in Service
Instructor: Baroness Alys Graye, OP
Moderator: Lady Kitta Refr
Description: Joyful service is sustainable service. Finding your internal drive and expressing it as an outward manifestation is key to a long career sharing your love of service with others. Our instructor has experience practicing what she preaches in two different Kingdoms. She tackles problems and masters them with a smile.
Giving Critique
Instructor: Lady Cristeane Regan MacNab
Moderator: Baroness Finna kottr Godormsdottir
Description: Keeping criticism constructive is vital, but sometimes hitting the right balance between providing the information someone needs and the information they are ready to hear is a challenge. Our instructor has built a professional career working in management and support roles with artistic, scientific, organizational and autocratic personalities.
Accepting Critique
Instructor: Lady Cristeane Regan MacNab
Moderator: Baroness Finna kottr Godormsdottir
Description: Constructive criticism allows us to improve our service performance if we allow it. Come learn how to better understand and apply the information to receive about your service activities. Our instructor has built a professional career working in management and support roles with artistic, scientific, organizational and autocratic personalities.
Volunteering and You - A guide to avoiding burn-out
Instructor: Lady Mairi of Kilravock
Moderator: Baroness Kelsey Aylesworth, OP
CLASS HANDOUT
Description: Service people love to give, but you help no one if you are irritable or exhausted. Our instructor will be focusing on methods to preserve your tip-top service enthusiasm crucial to contributing to the game.
Court 101
Instructor: Mästarinna Ula Brennasdottir, OP
Moderator: Dam Kinehild le librari, OP, OL
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Description: Are you interested in what court members do? Do you think you might want to serve on court one day but don't know where to start. Our instructor is an experienced courtier who has worked in multiple kingdoms and can introduce you to some of the ins and outs of helping the Royalty shine and enjoying yourself while doing so.
Optimizing On-site Event Communication
Instructor: Master Edward le Kervere, OL, OP
Moderator: Baroness Finna kottr Godormsdottir
Description: In a digital world, google maps and FB pages still have not replaced SCA directional signs, white boards, court announcements and site handouts for conveying information to the populace. Our instructor is an experience event steward with years of communication under his belt both in the SCA and outside.
Lighting Candles - Establishing New Programs in the West Kingdom
Instructor: Landgräfin Else Hünrvogt , OP
Moderator: Lady Rhiannon Boyle
Description: Growth is vital. Change is inevitable. Tradition is inspirational. Our instructor has a passion to make the best, better. Come learn how to apply that ideal to establishing new programs where tradition carries the rule of law.
Data mining, data management, and data analytics for SCA uses
Instructor: Min Soo Yun
Moderator: Lady Kitta Refr
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Description: Evidence is useful in decision making but only if you know how to interpret organize and interpret it. Our instructor handles large amounts of data on a daily basis and is going to help teach us how to apply those skills in the SCA.
Service Challenges and Triumphs for Isolated Branches
Instructor: Lady Rivka of Shushan
Moderator: Lord Shimon Levi ben Yitzhak HaKohen
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Description: Living in the back of beyond comes with challenges related to geography, population limits and sometimes cross board participation. Our instructor has lived these challenges and more and is prepared to explore potential solutions with the class.
Care and Feeding of Local Branches
Instructor: Mistress Edith of Swanesdale, OP
Moderator: Baroness Finna kottr Godormsdottir
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Description: Are you invested in keeping your local branch running? Our instructor has served as a local Seneschal, Herald and Exchequer. She is poised to share her expertise on what goes in to keeping a local branch thriving.
Participant Judged Competitions: Advantages, Disadvantages and Practicalities
Instructor: Duquesa Juana Isabella de Montoya y Ramirez, OL, OP
Moderator: Baroness Kelsey Aylesworth, OP
Description: Participant based judging forms the core of SCA Heavy and Rapier fighting. Activities so diverse as Cooking and Equestrian have used it as well. Our instructor pioneered its recent use in cooking and has run several competitions under this format.
Defining Your Personal SCA Journey
Instructor: Baron Raven Mayne, OL
Moderator: Lady Kitta Refr
Description: There is so much that goes into a person's individual path that there is no one way, or combination of things, that is the manual to lead directly to success. Our instructor is started in the SCA in 1996 and will share his observations and philosophies that gained from his experiences on his SCA road.
Mentoring in the SCA
Instructor: Baroness Sciath ingen Chaennaig, OL
Moderator: Lady Rhiannon Boyle
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HANDOUT
Description: Mentorship - the relationship between two people where the individual with more experience, knowledge, and connections is able to pass along what they have learned to a more junior individual within a certain area (teaching, stewarding, local or kingdom officer). Join our instructor while she shows you why mentoring is an ideal approach to providing support to new service-oriented members and how to use mentoring to support continued engagement in service-roles (for both new and tenured SCA members), while avoiding early burn-out.
Designing and Running A&S Events - Large and Small
Instructor: Baroness Sabrina de la Bere, OP, OL
Moderator: Baroness Kelsey Aylesworth, OP
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Description: The Arts and Artists can have their own culture and specific needs. Come learn how to make arts activities even shinier whether you are looking at running a Collegium, Artisans Display, or a local Arts night. Our instructor is a passionate artist with mad organizational skills and a track record of heading up events that build the arts community.
Resumes for the SCA and the SCA for Resumes
Instructor: Viscountess Margarita Catherine di Calvi, OP
Moderator: Lady Rhiannon Boyle
SCA RESUME
PROF RESUME
Description: Resumes let folks know what we know and what we have done. They help us get SCA jobs. Give Pelican Council a fighting chance at giving candidates a fair evaluation AND they can help us parlay our SCA experience into paying jobs. Our instructor has extensive experience in human resources and the SCA. Come find out how to make that frustrating piece of paper work to your advantage.
Incorporating Archers and Archery at Events
Instructor: Master Edward le Kervere, OL, OP
Moderator: Baron Seamus of Rivenoak
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Description: Archery is an engaging and accessible activity. It is also potentially dangerous and often misunderstood by site owners and civil authorities. Our Instructor has decades of experience as an archer and an organizer. He will help provide concrete ways to help you incorporate archer in a format that is fun for the archers, safe for the other attendees and understandable for officials.
Go Ask Eilis
Instructor: Duchess Eilis ni Roibeard O'Boirne, OP, OL
Moderator: Baroness Alistair of Avalon, OP
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Description: Institutional knowledge is crucial to learning any role. Knowing who to ask and when to ask is sometimes more important than knowing what to ask. Our instructor has decades of experience in service throughout the Known World.
So you've had a wild idea: taking a plan from brainstorm to execution
Instructor: Dam Kinehild le librari, OP, OL
Moderator: Baroness Clare Elena de Montfort, OP
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Description: Do you have great ideas that your can't always implement in the SCA. Our instructor has an extensive track record of getting things done...even things once thought not possible.
Officer Sessions
Come join our officers to get to know them better and get your questions answered.
Zooming with the Kingdom Lists Minister
Instructor: Baroness Alistair of Avalon, OP
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Description: Come join the West Kingdom Lists Minister in an open office hours type session. Perfect for new and experienced list ministers that want to learn more about the process of making fighting run in a streamlined fashion. Also perfect for fighters that want to help run lists or just want to understand why they get called to the field when they do.
Zooming with the Kingdom A&S Minister
Instructor: Baroness Tangwistel Telynores, OL
Description: Come join the West Kingdom A&S Minister in an open office hours type session. Perfect for branch officers or interested artisans.
Zooming with the Kingdom Web Minister
Instructor: THL Rhys ap Gwion Baird
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Description: Come join the West Kingdom Web Minister in an open office hours type session. Perfect for branch web ministers or anyone who wants to know more about the digital world works in the West Kingdom.
Zooming with the Kingdom Chronicler
Instructor: Baroness Clare Elena de Montfort, OP and Mistress Christina O'Riain, OP
Description: Come meet the West Kingdom Chronicler in an open office hours type session. Perfect for branch chroniclers and those curious about how communications work in the West or how they used to work in Meridies.
Zooming with the Kingdom Site Coordinator
Instructor: Baroness Katrina Yarborough, Patent Pending
Description: Curious about how sites are selected for events? Have that perfect location to hold an event? Interested in Autocratting at the Kingdom level when stuff gets rolling again? Come join the Deputy Seneschal for sites while she hangs out an answers all your questions.
Zooming with the Kingdom Exchequer
Instructor: Master Edmond of Surrey, OP
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Description: Come join the West Kingdom Exchequer in an open office hours type session. Perfect for branch exchequers, special project exchequers and anyone who wants to know more about the financial policies and practices of the West Kingdom.
Open Heraldic Consultation Table/Info Session
Instructor: Mistress Edith of Swanesdale, OP
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Description: Working on a name or device? Join this session to get real time help from heralds on design and submission
Zooming with the Kingdom Constable
Instructor: THL Christel Leake
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Description: Come join the West Kingdom Constable in an open office hours type session. Perfect for branch constables, those who sit gate, anyone curious about the process and how to get involved in greetings folks when they arrive at events.
Zooming with Vesper (Kingdom Herald)
Instructor: Mistress Alizan De la Fontaine, OP
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Description: Come join the Vesper Principal Herald in an open office hours type session. Perfect for branch heralds, duty heralds, field heralds, court heralds and anyone curious about the process and how to get involved in Book (names and devices) or the various versions of voice heraldry (projecting to amplify the voice of the Crown).
Round Table Discussions
These Panelist based discussions have time for more Q&A. Break out rooms available for sessions that run long.
Volunteering at the Society level
Instructor: Saruca Hatun bint Lazari & Sir Barthelemy Illyria Moderator: Baroness Alistair of Avalon, OP
Description: Ever wonder what it takes to volunteer at the Society level? Our facilitators currently serve on the SCA Board of Directors and will explain the process for Board, committee, and officer selection. They may EVEN give a preview to some new volunteer opportunities that are JUST around the corner! This will be a very limited presentation with lots of time for discussions and questions. They hope to provide those interested in volunteering with the tools they need as well as provide answers to the big questions.
The Philosophy of Service
Instructor: Baroness Clare Elena de Montfort, OP
Moderator: Baroness Alistair of Avalon, OP
Description: Service is an oft misunderstood mindset. Come explore the many points of view that can come in to play in creating the gift of service in a sustainable and productive fashion.
Let's Plan a New War in a Hour
Facilitator: Baron Joel the Brewer, OP
Moderator: Baroness Alistair of Avalon, OP
Description: Wars carry some unique challenges for the steward and participants. Starting this from scratch opens opportunity and pitfalls. Come explore all those things in this discussion and table top exercise.
Keeping Service Accessible
Facilitator: Lady Jocelyn d'Orleans
Panel: Laird Odd the Foundling, THL Aibhilin Inghean Ui' Raghailliagh, Baroness Zahra Tesfaye
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Description: When it comes to accessibility we often think of how to we make things with in reach of event attendees. But what how can can we preserve service outlets for all who want to give back to the society? Come explore the things we can do to remove barriers and more importantly to prevent building them in the first place.
Music as Service
Instructor: THL Jolicia atte Northclyfe
Moderator: Baroness Alistair of Avalon, OP
Description: From entertaining at court to musical accompaniment for dance through providing ambiance at parties, music can fil the niche of art and service at the same time. Our facilitator along with her panel will explore the many ways that music can be service while addressing how to help musicians step into those roles.
Care and Feeding of SCA Volunteers
Facilitator: Mästarinna Ula Brennasdottir, OP
Moderator: Baroness Alistair of Avalon, OP
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Description: Volunteers are the lifeblood of the SCA. Leaving individuals better than we found them is a crucial skill set of any volunteer manager. Come learn some tools and techniques to accomplish that.
Growing Up in the West
Instructor: Landgrafin Rosewitha Wolfsdottir, OP; Landgraf Brion of Bellatrix, KSCA, OP; Baroness Margrethe Astrid Ravn, OP
Moderator: Baron Seamus of Rivenoak
Description: Come learn about generations with in the West Kingdom. Our presenters will provide perspectives as parents, Kingdom Children Officer, constable, and educator