** Breaking news of a remarkable new venue for Conversare gatherings in Adelaide. See below. Curious about participating in social gathering in which the core activity is having a meal with one person,...
In the past few weeks I have mentioned to a number of people that there is a new venue in the offing for this kind of socialising in which the essence is to share...
Are you aware that culture shapes the way we converse with each other? By culture is meant ‘the way we do things around here.’ What if the culture of our communities is based squarely...
This note is written in a context of chaos – at least this is how it feels to me. Our house is full of cardboard boxes scavenged locally for the purpose of packing...
In my previous post. I touched on the fact that loneliness is reportedly widespread in modern urban life. Some of this, I contend, can be attributed to people having poor conversational skills. By this...
This kind of socialising, getting together in a public place with a host to do the welcoming, is simple to organise and to host, with a little experience. Whoever does this quickly appreciates how...
The original idea of having gatherings of people who may not know each other in public places, with a host to do the welcoming and to set the scene, was mainly for social purposes....
Followers of this blog may appreciate that its focus has been on contexts in which people converse with others who they have not have ever met and may not do again. My purpose in...
I wish to bring two key ideas to your attention. Actually it is one seminal idea! I’ll introduce the first, about conversation being a dance, in this post and address how it is also...
Do we treat people with respect to produce a desired result? Hopefully not! We do this as a way of being in which we recognise the intrinsic value of everyone we encounter. And to...
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