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Meetings are now your culture carriers
It’s easy to get frustrated with hybrid meetings. And they’re increasingly important. When people can work from anywhere, and some are in the office, and many are remote, the primary way we now experience each other is through meetings. It's time to get good at them.
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The Art of Guesting
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How a Simple Move Changed a Birthday Party
Why do some activities take off and others fall flat? Read more on how small, simple changes can transform a whole night.
How to Fix Your Invitations
An invitation is more than just the who/what/when/where of your gathering. It’s an act of persuasion. Read more on how to elevate your next gathering invitation.
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.
Designing for Connection in the Workplace
Whether teams are in-person, remote, or hybrid, one thing is true in any form: Connection doesn't happen on its own. It must be designed for. Read more on an essential element needed to facilitate connection in the workplace.
A Slice of Simplicity: The Lighter Side of Gathering
Your reason for gathering need not be serious. Sometimes, it's as simple as looking for some friends to share a pie. Read more on the artful gathering skill of identifying a relevant need.
What is an Artful Gatherer?
An artful gatherer is someone who is able to create meaning and connection with and for their people, one gathering at a time. And, it's something anyone can learn to do with the right set of skills. Read more on the first simple step to becoming an artful gatherer.
An Equation for Magical Questions
The right question can unlock meaningful conversation and connection in a group. Read more on the equation for magical questions to help you find a good question to jumpstart your next group conversation.
Why the Chat Box is My Secret Weapon
Our digital meetings don't have to be stale and disconnected. Read more on the three ways to turn your virtual audience into a community.
One Effective Shift to Ease Your Hosting Anxiety
Hosting can be a daunting task. This is your permission to share the role. Read more on how to playfully include your guests in the role of sub-hosts to lighten the hosting responsibilities and create a collective and connective group experience.
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.
Gathering at Work After So Much Time Away
Back to school is fraught. Read more on how one community decided to honor their faculty and staff as they brought their hybrid team back to in-person learning after 16 months apart.
Infusing Joy into Your Community Event
Sometimes, the deepest need, particularly in a difficult period, is laughter and humor and joy. Read how one church, in realizing their gathering's purpose, infused fun and spectacle for their people in a challenging season.
Reimagining Together: How Do We Gather Now?
The way we gather has been changed forever. How do we re-engage? Read more on some principles that help a group navigate transitions.
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.
Long-Distance Connections: How to Host a Remote Adventure During the Holidays
The topic of 2020 holiday parties has been both overwhelming and underwhelming. Read more on how to turn a cancelled party into a collective adventure this holiday season.
The Year of an Improv Thanksgiving
Abandon your Thanksigivng script. Read more on how to embrace the chance to build a different kind of holiday.
Collectively Remembering Those We've Lost
Who has not been touched by death and loss this year, both personal and collective? Read more on where within our own traditions might we rediscover and be inspired by ways to collectively remember the dead.
Burner Curious: 7 Reasons I’m Intrigued by Burning Man This Year...and You May Be, Too
Why do I study parties? They are contexts where we have less hangups of what something has to look like and how we are supposed to behave, and therefore are wonderful learning sites to create temporary alternative worlds. (Also, they’re fun.) Read more on why the digital playa has me so intrigued.
10 Reasons the Virtual DNC Worked (and what we can learn from it)
Instead of trying to replicate a traditional IRL convention on TV, the Democratic National Convention re-imagined it. And we are all the better for it. Read more on why the 2020 DNC was a weird yet moving prime-time virtual convention we can all learn from.
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