What is a living room picnic?
A living room picnic is a small-group conversation that begins around a particular topic, and then goes where it goes. Friendly digital get togethers where you can reflect, relax and have a candid conversation. Anyone can hold a living room picnic.
When I held them, I sent out rambling invitations to start the conversation. I liked to include some silent journaling to ground us in our own thinking and feeling.
We didn’t record them. It was about the experience. I generally shared notes afterwards with attendees.
We didn’t do takeaways at the end. There was no intellectual destination we’re trying to reach, though insights, discoveries, affirmations and learnings often emerged. If there was a goal, it was unhurried conversation. relaxation. It was a picnic.
If you wanted to keep going with the topic, you could inside the coffeehouse. But not many people did, which was fine.