3 steps to turn everyday get-togethers into transformative gatherings

If you want to try this type of gathering, centered on people’s real selves rather than their best selves, you need to warn them.

my comments would be warm and interesting and, more important, accurate and egalitarian.

When we don’t examine the deeper assumptions behind why we gather, we end up skipping too quickly to replicating old, staid formats of gathering.

it is the way a group is gathered that determines what happens in it and how successful it is, the little design choices you can make to help your gathering soar.

a way of seasoning your gathering more deeply: designing it as a world that will exist only once.

It was almost becoming a routine—that great enemy of meaningful gathering.