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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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Phones and Gatherings
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The Magic of a Good Opening
Artful gatherers know: the first five minutes of a gathering — the opening — are an opportunity to shape the rest of the experience.
Become a Force for Better Gatherings
This month, I want to focus on how to start actually shifting the gathering culture of your communities, whether at work or with family and friends.
My Top 3 Gathering Lessons from 2022
I wish you and yours a little respite (hopefully) as we turn collectively inwards. But before I sign off for the year, I wanted to leave you with my top three gathering lessons from 2022.
The Art of Guesting During Festive Season
As we enter the rest of the holiday season, to help you navigate it all, I want to invite you to practice what I call intentional guesting. What is Intentional Guesting, you ask? It’s the act of choosing whether, why and how one attends a 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.
The Art of *Hybrid* Gathering
The hybrid meeting – where some guests attend online while others are together in person – is on the rise. Yet it's incredibly clunky. And it doesn't have to be. Read more on practicing the art of hybrid gathering.
Feeling Disconnected From Your Team? Tap into what you know.
Remote and flexible work seem here to stay for many teams. How do you create shared, enlivening experiences for teams and organizations when you don't share physical space? Read more on the joys of knowing your people and how one team used this to create a fun celebration.
The Art of Guesting
Guests have extraordinary power in shaping a gathering. Read about five ways to practice the art of gathering as a guest at any occasion.
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.
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