Chairing Meetings

Chairing Meetings is a great way to do service. Are you considering to chair a meeting? Please read through the following:

If you want to chair a meeting in Zoom (video and audio) these are the steps:

  1. Get 30 days free of Nicotine
  2. Get yourself trained: Ask other hosts if you can co-chair with them. You need 4 times co-chairing to become a “Host.”
  3. Download the Zoom Meeting format. This is a suggested format, so the meeting you’re co-chairing might use a different format.
  4. Download the VONR Zoom reference guide for instructions and best practices to manage the Zoom room. 
  5. After 4 times co-chairing, you’re ready to become a Zoom Host , Hurray! 
  6. Ask the Zoom Roomowner host@voicesofnicotinerecovery.com to give you the host-code and final training, and to show you how to open the room. 
  7. If you want to start your very own meeting, check the calendar, choose an hour that is free, pick a topic and send all this information to calendar@voicesofnicotinerecovery.com

Anyone who already has the VONR Zoom host key to keep the parking lot open regardless of current smober time.

If you want to chair a meeting in Paltalk (audio-only) these are the steps:

  1. Get 30 days without Nicotine
  2. Send an email to our Superadmin at superadmin@voicesofnicotinerecovery.com, set up a time to train with the SuperAdmin to learn how to open and close the room, use the Admin Console, and red-dot, and answer any questions you may have.
  3. Ask another Paltalk-admin if you can cochair with her or him. You need 4 times cochairing. Anyone with an (A) behind their name is an admin.
  4. Download the Paltalk Meeting format. This is a suggested format, so the meeting you’re (co)chairing might use a different format.
  5. Learn more about chairing, reddotting, etc. from notes compiled from GC motions.
    Meeting Admin Notes
  6. After 4 times co-chairing, you’re an admin, Hurray! 
  7. Ask the Superadmin to give you your hat.
  8. To become an admin you must go to https://www.paltalk.com/g2/paltalk/988820702 and click ‘FOLLOW‘ in order to be added as an admin.
  9. If you want to start your very own meeting, check the calendar, choose an hour that is free, pick a topic and send all this information to calendar@voicesofnicotinerecovery.com
  10. An extra instruction how to chair from your mobile device can be found here: Open & Close Paltalk Room on Phone or Mobile Device

It is NOT required that a chairperson have a regularly scheduled meeting on the calendar. A chairperson may open the meeting room at any time for a meeting (not just to chat), by posting a message in the VONR WhatsApp that the meeting room is open.  An admin may also be a substitute chair for other admins.

If a chairperson begins using nicotine again, she or he must wait 30 days after becoming nicotine-free to begin chairing again.