🤗 Sun Jan 5, 2024 12:30 PM Deep Talk Potluck! (The Yellow Castle 💛🏰)

Announcements:
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For Sunday October 6, 2024:

1. We will continue with each person answering a different question from the box. Which means, please think of a DEEP question you want to add to the question box! 📥 (Or message me or Harris.)
2. There will be a prize again for the winner. This prize is one that everyone will want! 🎁

For Sunday September 1, 2024:

1. New location!!!! 🏰 (I will message you the address individually.)
2. There will be a Deep Talk Winner 👑 and a new Secret Prize! 🏆

For Sunday August 4, 2024:

1. We're switching things up! Rather than everyone answering the same question, we will each answer different questions. Details coming soon! Also . . . By popular demand (🦖 Travis), an official way to crown a Deep Talk WINNER! 👑
2. Toastmasters! (link here) Join us and improve your public speaking ability in a friendly, safe, welcome environment!
3. Two videos (loosely) related to previous Deep Talks:
4. What Makes a Superior Man or Woman? 💪
5. 🤓🫂 From Crippling Loneliness to 400+ Friends

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RSVPs & Waitlists:

• Thank you all for the incredibly surprising (and humbling) interest in Deep Talk 😊 It is a challenging position to be in, and a few people have asked about the Waitlist.
• We are reserving 10 for first come RSVP. Then we will hold a few positions for new first timers, friends who we haven't seen in a while, as well as backfill if people cancel their RSVP.
• If you would like to join us, please RSVP, even when full! We hope to meet ALL of you!

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For new people joining us:

• The purpose of the group is to express what is on your mind, getting deep and vulnerable. If you are not comfortable sharing about your life (and hearing about our lives too of course), please do not attend. This is NOT a group to just listen passively! 🙊😃
• And as we heard on Sammie and Michelle's podcast, a gathering for everyone is a gathering for no one. This event is for people that want to speak and be heard, just as much as listening respectively.
• Listen here! 158. How to Have a Party with Purpose: Crafting Deep Connections and Meaningful Moments by Being Specific About a Gathering's Purpose

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• Bring your favorite dish! We do potluck-style in a more quiet setting at members' clubhouses and homes, where we can speak (and hear each other!) without the hustle and bustle of the usual Sunday lunchtime restaurants (and cost!). If possible, please bring healthy proteins 🍗, salads 🥗, cheeses 🧀, bottled water 💧, dry red/white wines 🍷, and if you can, try to avoid sugary things! 🏋️
• Be mindful of RSVP! If you no show, and do not message anyone at least a day before, you will be removed from the group immediately. We may eventually do off-Meetup activities, and select from those who can abide by this rule. ⛑

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Guiding Principles:

• Tell stories! Be vulnerable! Share your perspectives through illustration AND depth. It will give others the courage to do so as well.
• Be willing to stretch your comfort zone and points of view rather than to defend, maintain and validate them.
• Listen to HEAR and witness rather than to generate a response [this isn't a debate club]
• Be respectful of everyone else's unique life experience and perspectives
• Do your part to ensure everyone gets an opportunity to be heard (be mindful of how much you are talking vs listening)
• When someone is speaking, give them your full attention - no interruptions, no side comments, no phone scrolling.
• Focus on speaking from your own experience rather than hearsay.

Come to meet new friends, express yourself, have fun, and enjoy some great conversations!