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How to cool down this year’s family gatherings
If you, like millions of Americans, are traveling to spend time with an extended circle, you may be thinking more than usual about how to help the group connect (or just not blow up). Conflict resolution facilitators are taught to hold healthy heat. And sometimes that means turning the temperature down, while still maintaining connection.
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5 Ways to Reinvent Traditions
I’ve been thinking a lot about weddings lately and wanted to share with you five questions to help figure out which traditions to copy-paste, which to edit, and which to cut altogether.
Phones and Gatherings
Here are five questions to cultivate a more intentional relationship to technology at every gathering:
What Stellar Dress Codes Have In Common
If gathering is about the navigation of power and connection in a group for a purpose, there’s no better learning site for us aspiring artful gatherers than dress codes.
Math and Poetry: The Importance of Just the Right Amount of Structure...And No More.
How can you fill the time at your next gathering? The answer lies in "the Math and the Poetry" — the dashes of structure and form you bake into a gathering to facilitate connection. Read more on how one couple nailed the Math and Poetry at their wedding, and how you can start to think about this too.
A Time of Reinvention: When Traditions No Longer Serve Us
The art of modern gathering is the recognition that so many of the rituals we have inherited no longer serve the reality in front of us. Read more about how one couple beautifully reinvented their post-pandemic wedding experience.
Meeting the In-Laws: Designing an Out-of-the-Box Virtual Evening
Fostering new connections in a pandemic is a tricky dance. Read more on how one couple intentionally designed for new connection in a virtual meeting of the in-laws ahead of their wedding day.
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