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Scott Heiferman, co-founder of Meetup, told us during a workshop, “people show up for the meetup but they come back for the people.”

Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people

This project is inspired by the transformative power of intimate gatherings. Most of my transformation has happened in intimate group settings where my care is prioritized.

Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?

Memetic Gardens : Curated spaces where ideas can develop through community tending rather than algorithmic promotion

Leo Guinan • The Memetic Foundation of Human Value - A New Economic Paradigm

The goal of structure is to focus conversations (including the hard ones!) on the unique ideas that your community wants to explore together.

Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people

well-arranged words rearrange reality.

Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet

I want to find my place

amongst the people of Advent

but I can’t quite decide who I am.

I want to be pregnant with God

but it takes such a toll on the body.

I have given birth to things before

And labor is hard and untimely //

I want to welcome angels and say yes,

to anything.

but if I saw an angel I would hold him

hostage and send a ransom note of questions

In your heart may there be a sanctuary

For the stillness where clarity is born.

May your work be infused with passion and creativity

And have the wisdom to balance compassion and challenge.

Jennifer Lentfer • Friday’s Poetic Pause: “For One Who Holds Power” by John O’Donohue – How Matters

A facilitator is someone trained in the skill of shaping group dynamics and collective conversations. My job is to put the right people in a room and help them to collectively think, dream, argue, heal, envision, trust, and connect for a specific larger purpose.

Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

Similarly, Protein's very own SEED CLUB positions itself as “a place where people and ideas grow" and it was in fact through SEED CLUB that I discovered The Commons, thanks to an insightful comment from Mike Evans:

“I definitely prefer this concept of a space that you actively program to fulfil certain connection requirements as more convincing than... See more