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What kind of Lodge Education Programs do you like?

SkiKing76

Registered User
Being a new LEO (not the law kind) I spend a good deal of my time making sure I am putting together a quality presentation and making sure I am not just standing still or just reading off a sheet of paper.

What kinds of presentations do you like the most? What did you find to be the most thought provoking? What kinds of things don't you like? For me reading off of power point is the worst.

Also what as been your favorite lesson-presentation-speech that you have given and why?

Cheers.
 

cacarter

Premium Member
Re: What kind of Lodge Education Programs do you l

Kudos for wanting quality and for doing an education program. Sad to say, my blue lodges haven't really done anything like this, but I have seen some in other bodies. My favorite was a walk and talk program given by the Grand High Priest of Texas during a York Rite Conference. He demonstrated an aspect of initiation and explained some of the significance of the ritual as he moved about the lodge. I guess a power point with pertinent pictures instead of words could be better than reading off of it.

The esoteric type speeches are the most enjoyable to me, it seems that in many lodges it is the untouched subject.
 

dfreybur

Premium Member
Re: What kind of Lodge Education Programs do you l

Who - My favorite talks are the ones done by brothers other than myself! I always have a few in the can ready to go so I present regularly.

Kind - My favorite type of talk is one that features some sort of material other than speech. A slide show (travelogues rule), a demonstration of a lewis, a powerpoint, a flipchart, a trestle to do drawings on ...

Mechanics - For the actual talk I like to walk around as I speak addressing a brother at a time.

Of all the presentations I've done the one most requested is the one on the Golden Fleece - History of the legend of Jason and the Argonauts, geology of where gold appears in minerals, hydralics of how a submerged fleece works like panning, meteorology of erosion to put gold dust into mountain streams, quoting Heraclitus "Those who dig for gold must process much dirt", noticing that the golden fleece in the legend is both literal and figurative of science, technology, mystical, moving to metaphor of Masons as gold dust, lodges as the fleece that finds candidates.
 

Brother_Steve

Premium Member
Re: What kind of Lodge Education Programs do you l

We have a PM that eats, breathes and sleeps ritual.

He heads our advisory and ritual committee.

He holds a class on a Saturday after a degree has taken place. He breaks down the obligation and the degree to explain to the brethren what they just experienced.

I myself am still intrigued by ritual and symbolism. It is a part of Masonry I never thought I would be attracted to but I soak it in when I can.
 

SkiKing76

Registered User
Re: What kind of Lodge Education Programs do you l

Who - My favorite talks are the ones done by brothers other than myself! I always have a few in the can ready to go so I present regularly.

Kind - My favorite type of talk is one that features some sort of material other than speech. A slide show (travelogues rule), a demonstration of a lewis, a powerpoint, a flipchart, a trestle to do drawings on ...

Mechanics - For the actual talk I like to walk around as I speak addressing a brother at a time.

Of all the presentations I've done the one most requested is the one on the Golden Fleece - History of the legend of Jason and the Argonauts, geology of where gold appears in minerals, hydralics of how a submerged fleece works like panning, meteorology of erosion to put gold dust into mountain streams, quoting Heraclitus "Those who dig for gold must process much dirt", noticing that the golden fleece in the legend is both literal and figurative of science, technology, mystical, moving to metaphor of Masons as gold dust, lodges as the fleece that finds candidates.

Brother Doug I am intrigued by your Golden Fleece presentation. would you be willing to share some of your material with me?
 

dfreybur

Premium Member
Re: What kind of Lodge Education Programs do you l

Brother Doug I am intrigued by your Golden Fleece presentation. would you be willing to share some of your material with me?

I'll see if I have more written down than that outline.
 

crono782

Premium Member
Re: What kind of Lodge Education Programs do you l

Hopefully a section for ol' Philip III in there too?
 

Companion Joe

Premium Member
Re: What kind of Lodge Education Programs do you l

My favorite programs to give and hear pertain directly to our lodge or to Freemasonry in our state in general.

I have one prepared for the next meeting. Our first WM in 1801 went on to serve in the U.S. Senate (succeeding our second WM), was Secretary of the Treasury under President James Madison, and later served as Ambassador to Russia from 1818-21. I suspect the majority of our members don't know all this. I have obtained a picture of him and will present it to the Lodge.

I have two others I am working on for later this year. One of our members was appointed chairman of the committee to petition North Carolina to allow Tennessee to form its own Grand Lodge in 1813. He was later named the state's first Grand Chaplain. I also recently got my hands on a copy of our lodge returns from 1856. We thought everything prior to 1857 was destroyed during the Civil War.
 

SkiKing76

Registered User
Re: What kind of Lodge Education Programs do you l

My last presentation was about the craft coming to Minnesota. The first three lodges we had were working UD from Ohio, Wisconsin and Illinois. Seemed to go over pretty well.
 

Warrior1256

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Re: What kind of Lodge Education Programs do you l

My favorite programs to give and hear pertain directly to our lodge or to Freemasonry in our state in general.

I have one prepared for the next meeting. Our first WM in 1801 went on to serve in the U.S. Senate (succeeding our second WM), was Secretary of the Treasury under President James Madison, and later served as Ambassador to Russia from 1818-21. I suspect the majority of our members don't know all this. I have obtained a picture of him and will present it to the Lodge.

I have two others I am working on for later this year. One of our members was appointed chairman of the committee to petition North Carolina to allow Tennessee to form its own Grand Lodge in 1813. He was later named the state's first Grand Chaplain. I also recently got my hands on a copy of our lodge returns from 1856. We thought everything prior to 1857 was destroyed during the Civil War.

Wow, this is very interesting stuff! You and your brothers are very lucky to belong to such an historic lodge.
 
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