News and Updates

The first Conversare event in its new venue in the new community centre took place on 17 Sept. This post is to let you know some of what happened and of the background ,...

Conversare is a context for participation. It is a social gathering for people who look at the world straight in the eye to engage with like minded others in a spirit of curiosity, an...

I was talking recently at a bus stop with an American lady whose business is Human Resources consulting. In the course of which I mentioned the Conversare approach to bringing people together to enjoy...

An idea aching to be born These are words that I used quite intuitively in correspondence with a student in Jakarta who had ‘popped up’ in my inbox to offer her help. This was...

Perhaps what crystallized the idea of having Conversare gatherings – although the notion had been percolating away for some time – was my noticing two items about ‘disconnectedness’. The first was seeing this obituary...

Conversare gatherings are for people to have ‘intimate conversational engagement’ and associated activities through which to experience richness of connecting, and risk taking through sharing personal vulnerability – and fun. As mentioned earlier the...

In my last post I outlined what happens at the start of a Conversare gathering. Here I will go into the next component of the design, participants having a meal. For an evening gathering...

OK what happens in a Conversare event? People engage well with each other in diverse ways to have rich, enjoyable and memorable encounters. Here is more on what has been evolving at the particular...

Does it seem strange to you for gatherings to be held purely for the enjoyments of the company of those present, some or many of whom may initially be strangers? At first glance it...