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Gathering as a way back to awe
Gatherings are the creation of a temporary alternative world that anyone can build. And by bringing people together in a specific way we create the wild possibility of actually altering each other.
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The Art of Guesting
Guests have extraordinary power in shaping a gathering. Read about five ways to practice the art of gathering as a guest at any occasion.
How to Fix Your Invitations
An invitation is more than just the who/what/when/where of your gathering. It’s an act of persuasion. Read more on how to elevate your next gathering invitation.
A Slice of Simplicity: The Lighter Side of Gathering
Your reason for gathering need not be serious. Sometimes, it's as simple as looking for some friends to share a pie. Read more on the artful gathering skill of identifying a relevant need.
What is an Artful Gatherer?
An artful gatherer is someone who is able to create meaning and connection with and for their people, one gathering at a time. And, it's something anyone can learn to do with the right set of skills. Read more on the first simple step to becoming an artful gatherer.
An Equation for Magical Questions
The right question can unlock meaningful conversation and connection in a group. Read more on the equation for magical questions to help you find a good question to jumpstart your next group conversation.
One Effective Shift to Ease Your Hosting Anxiety
Hosting can be a daunting task. This is your permission to share the role. Read more on how to playfully include your guests in the role of sub-hosts to lighten the hosting responsibilities and create a collective and connective group experience.
Gathering at Work After So Much Time Away
Back to school is fraught. Read more on how one community decided to honor their faculty and staff as they brought their hybrid team back to in-person learning after 16 months apart.
Infusing Joy into Your Community Event
Sometimes, the deepest need, particularly in a difficult period, is laughter and humor and joy. Read how one church, in realizing their gathering's purpose, infused fun and spectacle for their people in a challenging season.
Reimagining Together: How Do We Gather Now?
The way we gather has been changed forever. How do we re-engage? Read more on some principles that help a group navigate transitions.
Burner Curious: 7 Reasons I’m Intrigued by Burning Man This Year...and You May Be, Too
Why do I study parties? They are contexts where we have less hangups of what something has to look like and how we are supposed to behave, and therefore are wonderful learning sites to create temporary alternative worlds. (Also, they’re fun.) Read more on why the digital playa has me so intrigued.
How to Work with Power Dynamics for the Good of Your Gathering
Power exists in every gathering. (And that’s not a bad thing.) As gatherers, we need to understand how the various decisions we make in a gathering practically shifts and shares power within the group. Read more on how one memorial was structured to shift power dynamics within a family across generations.
A Case for Ditching the Zoom Background (When It's Appropriate)
In this episode of Together Apart, we host a Digital Speed Dating Experiment to see if virtual dating could be meaningful, fun, and even a little disarming. Read more on why we make the case that you should stop trying to block out the world behind that screen in most virtual social gatherings.
The Power of Storytelling for Group Connection
The moments of highest connection in a group center around the stories we share. Read more on three helpful structures for story-telling in groups.
How Covid Changes the Way Institutions Gather
Because we now have to navigate every gathering virtually, not just the sidebars, institutions of power are being forced to open up areas to guests they had previously overlooked. Read more to explore some of the fundamental questions on how institutions gather now and who they convene in a post-Covid world.
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