If you have registered to be a member of a Peer Support Circle, you are also invited to apply to be a Technician for the group you are matched with. If your qualifications lead to selection by the ASI, you’ll be provided with a short training that builds on your existing skills and explains exactly what you’ll need to do for your Peer Support Circle. If you have any questions, contact peersupport@spiritual-integrity.org.
Technician Role Summary:
Every two weeks, for 90 minutes, you’ll meet face-to-face online with your designated Circle of 4-5 fellow ASI members. As a technician, you’ll provide and manage the online meeting platform and participate as a member of your group. Your responsibilities include setting up the virtual space for each meeting and helping ensure equal speaking time for all members. The facilitator has a dual role of gently guiding the group and also being a Circle participant. Your group will convene 8 times in total. Meeting times are determined by member availability and participant screening for optimal group composition. Peer Support Circles are not recorded.
Qualifications:
- Be a member of the Association for Spiritual Integrity.
- Be registered as a member of a Peer Support Circle.
- Provide and manage all technical aspects of running the online video platform for your Peer Support Circle. The group will use Zoom unless there is a compelling reason to use another platform.
- Possess a Zoom Pro (or higher level) account.
- Have significant experience and a high level of proficiency in operating this platform.
- Possess a personal computer or laptop with HD webcam and secure high-speed internet.
- Be willing to pay the standard $90.00 USD Peer Support Circle participation fee. This payment is due at the same time as the participants without a Technician or Facilitator role.
Responsibilities:
- Provide a dedicated link that can be used for all eight meetings.
- Enable the facilitator as a co-host and ask participants to select gallery view during meetings.
- Adjust the chat settings so only the host and co-host can send messages to everyone and the participants can only send private messages to the host and co-host.
- Enable a waiting room and allow only Circle participants to enter.
- Play non-copyrighted music (provided) and display the Circle Covenant (provided) beginning 5 minutes before and 2 minutes into each meeting.
- Mute participants’ microphones upon entry into the meeting.
- Notify the participants about how much time they have to speak near the start of the Circle.
- Keep time for each participant, and when someone sharing is close to the end of their allotted time, we suggest holding up a sign indicating ‘two minutes’ and ‘one minute.’
Schedule Availability:
- Attend a 90-minute Peer Support Technician Training on Sunday, September 7, 2025, held on Zoom.
- Be the Zoom technician for eight 90-minute meetings of your designated Peer Support Circle. Meeting times are largely determined by member availability. They start the week of September 14.
Benefits:
- The opportunity to serve your spiritual colleagues by helping them engage in peer support through providing a smooth technical experience during meetings.
- Tremendous opportunities for personal insight and growth as a Peer Support Circle participant.
- Minor time commitment, fitting around your existing schedule.
