What if when we met, we exchanged stories instead of credentials?
What if I we told each other something about the soil we come from?
I discovered this question over the summer, during a podcast conversation between Nikki Silvestri and Daniel Stillman on the Conversation Factory podcast, during the Facilitating Complexity episode:
what is the soil you come from?
Partly because I struggle with introducing myself (I’ve never had a job title that felt like it was mine or good enough and a wave of performance anxiety would fill my mind — how could I possibly still be struggling with this!) and partly because job title - credentials are often too generic and branded to learn anything about each other, or to invite any questions. I always have questions. Credential exchange often leaves my curiosity in the corner.
This living room picnic is an inquiry into the complexity of who you are, you human being—
- born of,
- cultivated by,
- cared for,
- impacted by
people, places, circumstances, beliefs, ideas, histories, experiences, aspirations, desires.
I want to meet you 
and when I do, to have a visit, like we would on a fieldtrip to a neighborhood in some other part of the city…
This is for women who would enjoy, find relief in, are curious about more than credential exchanges as a way into the conversations that matter to you — whatever the context or setting, anywhere, anytime that humans are meeting each other.
There is nothing to prepare.
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