PairCircuit STUDIO

Facilitator notes

Read the agenda as elapsed minutes

Move time belongs between rounds, not after the last conversation.

A worked workshop example

Seven rounds of five-minute conversations contain 35 conversation minutes. With one minute to move between rounds, there are six move intervals, adding six minutes. The planned elapsed time is 41 minutes, not 42.

If the start label is 10:00, the first conversation runs 10:00–10:05, the next begins at 10:06 and the last ends at 10:41. All stations in a round share those start and end labels. A scheduled pause occupies that round's conversation interval; it is different from the move interval shared by everyone.

Crossing a day label

The agenda is arithmetic on elapsed minutes. A time beyond midnight is labelled D+1, then D+2 if needed. For example, a 23:55 start with a ten-minute first round ends at D+1 00:05. There is no calendar date, time-zone database or daylight-saving conversion behind that label.

Stations are placeholders

A station number identifies a pair's meeting point for one round. It is not a physical seating diagram, an optimised movement route or a promise that a participant stays at one place. Confirm the room layout and movement arrangements with the people attending. PairCircuit does not infer accessibility needs or matching preferences from names.