one of the important things about setting up /running a 'slow' (not the best name) session is to publicise it as such - otherwise many will think it will be a 'fast' irish type session. The other thing is to use a room with four walls and a door!! i.e. not a public bar or other such venue where the session can be taken over by ?fast players at the periphery. It can also be a good idea to 'elect' one of the number to run each session. George garside's 'Well known tunes at a steady pace giving everybody the chance to join in' is a bit of a mouthful but in many ways makes more sense than 'slow session' Something billed as a 'slow session' is likely to attract the slow, the very slow and the even slower! whereas what is required is a good mix of players who the more competent of who are prepared to go a bit easy to enable others to join in. One final point - it is important to not let a session degenerate into a 'workshop' - if it's a workshop you want to run aadverise it as such - again a workshop for slow players disguised as a session is likely to remain a workshop. - Why not do both, but at different times.