Touching on these elements with care can produce transformative gatherings, because you can dig below the typical conversation into the bedrock of values.

Your next task is to fuse people, to turn a motley collection of attendees into a tribe.

that they have one job before dinner: make two new friends. And because she’s so authentic and explicit about it, people make an effort to talk to new people, in part because she’s given them the social cover to do so.