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When we gather, we often make the mistake of merging category with purpose. We outsource our decisions and our assumptions about our gatherings to people, formats, and contexts that are not our own.
We get caught into the false belief that knowing the category of the gatheringâthe board meeting, workshop, birthday party, town hallâwill be instructive to designing it. But we often choose the templateâand the activities and structure that go along with itâbefore weâre clear on our purpose.
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"In a world of infinite choices, choosing one thing is the revolutionary act. Imposing that restriction is actually liberating."
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"Your opening needs to be a kind of pleasant shock therapy. It should grab people. And in grabbing them, it should both awe the guests and honor them. It must plant in them the paradoxical feeling of being totally welcomed and deeply grateful to be there."
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Barack Obama's aunt once told him, 'If everyone is family, no one is family.' It is blood that makes a tribe, a border that makes a nation.
The same is true of gatherings. The corollary to this saying: If everyone is invited, no one is invitedâin the sense of being truly held by the group.
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Having a purpose simply means knowing why youâre gathering and doing your participants the honor of being convened for a reason.
And once you have that purpose in mind, you will suddenly find it easier to make all the decisions that a gathering requires.
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"I reminded them that itâs hard to build a movement if you donât know whoâs in it."
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Whatâs wrong with someone whoâs irrelevant to the purpose? The crux of excluding thoughtfully and intentionally is mustering the courage to shift your perception so that you understand that people who arenât fulfilling the purpose of your gathering are detracting from it, even if they do nothing to detract from it.
Particularly in smaller gatherings, every single person affects the dynamics of a group. Excluding well and purposefully is reframing who and what you are being generous toâyour guests and your purpose.
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Isnât exclusion in gatherings something weâve been fighting against for years? Isnât exclusion, however thoughtful or intentional, the enemy of diversity? It is not.
When I talk about generous exclusion, I am speaking of ways of bounding a gathering that allow the diversity in it to be heightened and sharpened, rather than diluted in a hodgepodge of people.
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