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Episode 13* of the Resist + Renew podcast, where we feel the heat of temperature checks: what they bring, issues and benefits.

(* the observant amongst you will spot that this episode was meant to be number 14: we did some last-minute rearranging of the season. Please bear with us!)
'A temperature check can visiblise polarisation in the room' - Ali
Show notes, links
The perenially-useful Seeds for Change have a description of temperature checks on their tools page.

Ali also mentioned the work that Navigate do around convergent facilitation.

See our "What is facilitation?" podcast episode page for more general facilitation resources.

Transcript
Ali: This is Resist + Renew.

Kat: A UK-based podcast about social movements

Sami: What we’re fighting for, why and how it all happens.

Ali: The host of the show are:

Kat: Me Kat

Sami: Er, me, Sami,

Ali: and me, Ali.

Sami: I'm recording us now, baby.

Ali: Shit, it's a podcast!

Laughter

Ali: Helloooo. And welcome back to the Resist + Renew podcast. This is another episode of the toolbox. We've switched the order around just now, so this is the second to last episode we have for the season. And before we jump in to the episode itself, just wanted to say a little bit about the end of this season. We've enjoyed it a lot -- recording, interviewing people, chatting through stuff about facilitation tools. And it's been really nice to hear some feedback informally via social media and through friends, about how it's been going. We have some intentions and plans to carry on and do a season 2. But before we do that, we would really like to hear a bit more structuredly from people who have been listening. So it'd be great if you could fill in a little Google form we made, and give us some feedback about what you liked, what you didn't like so much, what you want to hear more of, what you want to hear less chat about, and that will help us to make season 2 even better when we come around to do that. So there will be a link on the website page for this episode, and also we'll put it out on social media. So if you're up for that, that'd be amazing. And maybe some of you would like to chat to us more and have some kind of 1 on 1, or focus group type thing. We haven't figured it out yet, but if you're up for that, let us know on the form. So... today's episode is a toolbox episode, and it is about temperature checks. So, Sami, would you like to kick us off and tell us what they are?

Sami: I would love to. So, temperature checks are a tool that is used by facilitators to kind of get some kind of often visual representation of how people are feeling about something. And so often it's based around some kind of question. And, and they're generally used as a tool to gauge whether people so like a classic example is if people want to like do people want to continue talking about something or do people feel happy to like move into a decision making kind of conversation from a discussing conversation would be the kind of example of where you use a temperature check. And they can there's like, kind of more discreet, kind of like, yes, no versions of temperature chips, but often temperature checks are quite continuous. So, it'd be like, one would be,