Convenings, Cohorts + Communities: Notes on so-called "impact" gatherings

breakout “labs”—intimate self-guided spaces where participants can deepen relationships and strategy together by working through shared questions and content. To each lab, assign note takers who will feed the content back to the meeting organizers for weaving throughout the meeting.

With lower group participation and less social capital, there are fewer places to think collectively about our myths and values – a particular problem given that small groups have such a crucial role to play as the building blocks of long-lasting movements which have the power to incubate and diffuse new values. Where then can we look to kindle mor

How can we cope with these shifts? What I see rising is a new form of presence and power that starts to grow spontaneously from and through small groups and networks of people.

Convenings bring all participants together to simultaneously build relationships, learn from one another, and make decisions for the future.