• Establish need for event analysis
• Establish schedule and budget framework
• Establish scope of analysis
• Discuss creation of report
• Establish post-report training activity

2. Analyze Rubrics and Texts of Event

• Structural analysis
• Historical development
• Allision of event with contextual documents and other events
• Nature of claims made for event

3. Analyze Support Documents

• Legal support of event
• Policy support of event
• Rubrical and textual support of event
• Redundant event support
• Budgetary and resources support for event
• Other

4. List Probable Confusions & Symbol Laden Actions

• Establish basic dynamic of lived experience

5. Analyze Live Event

Space

• Holistic
• Presidential
• Assistant
• Transactional
• Electional
• Audience
• Honorific
• Processional
• Other

Symbol Identification

• Flags, banners and emblems
• Dress
• Medals
• Desks, podia, seats
• Barriers
• Books and papers
• Certificates
• Artifcats of distinction
• Gestures
• Movements
• Postures
• Music
• Other

Symbol Manipulation

• Symbol clarity
• Symbol framing
• Distractions to symbolic activity
• Verbal narrative overlay
• Symbol placement
• Symbol movement
• Symbol display
• Symbol speech
• Redundancy
• Associations
• Other

Movement Blocks

• Beginning or preliminary action
• Procession
• Preliminary
• Oaths and transactions
• Certificates and/or medals transactions
• Holistic transactions
• Dismissal
• Recession
• Other

Personnel

• Presider
• Helpers and others
• Guards, handlers, clerks
• Elect
• Grantees of award
• Guests and/or honorifics
• Audience
• Media
• Other

Action

• Responsibility for beginning
• Responsibility for connections
• Responsibility for completion
• Step by step analysis
• Other

Performance

• Quality of language use including pacing and audibility
• Clarity of sight lines
• Quality of posture, gesture and movement
• Clarity of action
• Idiosyncratic helps and hinderances
• Other

Event Context

• Approaching, recognizing and leaving the space
• How is electional transaction formation reflected in event?
• Dismissal and mission connection?
• Does the special event make redundant connection to further or other events?
• Other

5. Prepare Phenomenological Report on Event

6. Prepare Comments on Event Quality

7. Prepare Recommendations for Event

8. Prepare Relational Critique

• Establish relationships among event texts, other events and support documents
• How does the event reflect and shape policy or other intentions?

9. Present report

10. Follow-up

• Manage report recommendations
• Provide pertinent training solutions