# hello and welcome ✨ **URL:** \ **Category:** welcome\ **Tags:** emergent-strategy, coffeehouse-info, maintenance-art\ **Created:** [July 16, 2021, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/hello-and-welcome/55 "2021-07-16T19:32:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/user_avatar/community.underminingnormal.com/alex/32/24_2.png) [@alex](https://community.underminingnormal.com/u/alex)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/hello-and-welcome/55/3 "2021-08-16T13:47:39Z")
## 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. Not many people did, which was fine. * * * --- _[View the full topic](https://community.underminingnormal.com/t/hello-and-welcome/55)._