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Having a purpose simply means knowing why you’re 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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Isn’t exclusion in gatherings something we’ve been fighting against for years? Isn’t exclusion, however thoughtful or intentional, the enemy of diversity? It is not.
When I talk about generous exclusion, I am speaking of ways of b...
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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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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 invited—in the sense of being truly held by th...
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What’s wrong with someone who’s 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 aren’t fulfilling the purpose of your gathering are detracting from it, even if they do ...
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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 gathering—the board...
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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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As difficult as it may seem, self-isolation has its benefits. When spending your time alone, the key to handle this situation is to find a purpose in your suffering. In other words, focus on why your suffering is doing good to others as well as to yourself. Furthermore, the fact that you stick to...
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