Hello Friends,
Greetings from Barcelona☀️where I’m being dazzled by the fall colours🍁. More on that below👇
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If you are joining for the first time, welcome to our deep dive into all things creativity, facilitation, and learning.
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I’m used to missing out on big events.
I have lived overseas for so long that I’ve lost track of the number of important events I’ve missed. Birthdays, holidays, reunions, and funerals all included. After a few years, I got numbed to feeling disapointed. Over time I even stopped feeling guilty for not being there. I came to accept that it was the cost of living away.
Strangely COVID changed that.
I say strangely because at times confinement and travel restrictions have made me feel more isolated and even farther away. At the same time, the pandemic has also made me feel closer to friends and family than I have felt in all of my years living abroad.
I realized that even if couldn’t be there in person, I didn’t have to miss out.
I learned that I could apply my virtual facilitation skills beyond running training, and online meetings. I could use the same principles to design and facilitate birthdays, graduations, and family reunions. It dawned on me that even when we can’t be together, we can have virtual events with family and friends that are meaningful and fun.
Even after COVID, we won’t always be able to celebrate in person.
Online parties give us another way of being together even if we are apart. Virtual events can shrink distances and help us feel connected. During the pandemic we have learned a lot about how to do them well. So well in fact that online parties can be even better than in-person.
How can you throw online parties that are even more meaningful and fun than in-person?
That’s our quest for this week🔎
👉5 Questions to Ask Yourself If You Want to Throw a Memorable Online Party
👉7 Online Party Ideas That Will Wow Your Guests
👉Seth Godin’s Thanksgiving Reader
Plus
👉 Free EduCaixa Workshop **for Spanish Speakers** December 1
Let’s dive right in!
🎈Want to Throw A Memorable Online Party? Answer These 5 Questions First.
As a professional facilitator, I am used to designing and leading online training and events. But organizing my mom’s 80th birthday celebration on Zoom presented a whole new creative challenge.
I learned that throwing a really memorable online party came down to answering 5 key questions. Read the full article 👉here.
🪅7 Online Party Ideas That Will Wow Your Guests
There are a lot of online party ideas out there on the internet. But a lot of them (I would say most of them) feel cheesy and forced. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Here are 7 tried-and-tested online party ideas that show you how to inject meaning and fun into online parties. Read the full article👉 here.
What online party ideas have you tried?
🥧Seth Godin’s Thanksgiving Reader
You have heard me talk about American author and entrepreneur Seth Godin in past issues. Among other things, he has one of the most popular blogs on the internet. In his latest blog, he shared a free resource called “The Thanksgiving Reader.”
It’s a collection of writings designed to be read aloud together on American Thanksgiving.
I’m not American. And I can see the eyes rolling in my family with the idea of a group reading.
But I love how Godin invites us to create family traditions that give holidays meaning. He has compiled a beautiful set of poems and stories that are worth reading whether you celebrate Thanksgiving or not.
What would make it into your Thanksgiving Reader?
🎟️Free EduCaixa Workshop on Motivating Students **En Español**
Calling all Spanish-speaking teachers and educators!
EduCaixa is offering a free virtual workshop on motivating students (in Spanish).
I’m thrilled to be joining a stellar panel of speakers sharing research and best practices including:
- Miguel Pimentel from the Education Endowment Foundation
- Jorge Fernández teacher and founder of the blog Investigación Docente
Inscríbate aquí 👉 https://educaixa.org/es/-/aprendizaje-dialogico
📷Photo of the Week
Dazzling autumn colours in Barcelona 🍁
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