Hey everyone!

Since a lot of people are excellent at pulling a Mongoose (ie. distracting everyone with funny anecdotes, going off on a tangent etc.) and thereby get the entire class distracted, making things very chaotic... I have a little suggestion to make, so tell me what you think!

- We will add a small bit of teaching on Mongoosing to one of the current intro classes. I'm saying intro because this especially is where it is a very distracting quality. It will make things much easier if you can just tell each other you're mongoosing, please get back on track and stop distracting your fellow students.
- My suggestion is to add this to the Control Drama class.
- The ideal situation in my opinion is to, before we start teaching about Control Dramas, first briefly talk about the Mongoose. Since the Control Drama class tends to push a lot of buttons it is an excellent opportunity for Mongeese people to start distracting themselves and others, it seems good to have it out of the way beforehand. Also, if taught BEFORE the CDs and not at the end of that class, people will see it as separate instead of thinking it's a 5th CD.

So, thoughts?

Just taught Seai group about the mongoose yesterday, they wound up choosing their own code word for it and it turned into a groundhog instead.

In my experience though, not every group needs this. So far I've taught an intermediate-level mongoosing group, an olympic level mongoosing group, and a group where the topic never even had to come up and I'd have been wasting everybody's time by teaching it.
So, I'd keep this optional and let the teacher decide if the group needs it, similar to the way it was taught to us. "Okay this needs to stop, we're inventing a method for this right now."
If it needs a set moment I agree that CD class would be the place for it.

The tricky part with this is not turning it into a punishment. "You're being too noisy so I get to yell animal names at you now!" But that's mostly in the delivery, and every teacher should be able to teach in an IP way anyway.

Yes, Dall group has decided on Goldfish.

It doesn't matter what you call it, as long as the entire group agrees on what it means.