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The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
We closed without closing. We didn’t take stock of what they had absorbed over the two days. We didn’t gauge their buy-in. We didn’t talk about how they would carry what we had done together into their daily lives—for
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Studies show that simply switching rooms for different parts of an evening’s experience will help people remember different moments better. To ensure people will remember the distinct parts of your party,
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letting people ask each other questions, having partners introduce each other, asking each person to answer one fun question. But
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“Things get purged prior to the workday that set the tone for the tenderness and brilliance that gets delivered,”
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first step in convening people meaningfully: committing to a bold, sharp purpose.
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explicit pop-up rules are better for gathering across difference.
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She defines risk as “a threat to one’s current state that could destabilize the way things are.” The risk is what allows for the possibility of the gift.
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The most important part of your invitation, though, is what it signals to your guests about your gathering and what it asks of them.
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but instead you can remember specific things that happened at each point. You go on a journey; there’s a narrative,”
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