Sarabet Chang Yuye

Running social events

5 items with this tag.

  • Review: The Art of Gathering (Parker)

    The author talks more about weekend retreats, large conferences, or peace talks than about the smaller events I want to run to communitybuild. I've decided to dash this review off anyway, because designing events is so important that it's valuable to summarize major principles.

  • Wail and Gnash

    A 1-hour event where you complain about how little fun you’re having at a multi-day festival. I ran this around noon of day 3 of a 4 day festival. [5m of mingling / trickling in – make it clear that the circle will start at X:05] [Get everyone in a circle] You probably have some sort of mental sensation or physical sensation that is different when you say something that’s very true, as opposed to not quite right or outright false.

  • Conflict Improv

    Event outline for an improv game where two players play out a conflict from strategy and scenario cards.

  • Nosy Questions List

    I collect questions for "nosy, inappropriate questions" social games. This is a full list (as of March 2025). Who in your life is your literary foil? How do you act around an unattainable crush? How large of a clone community could you have before it fell apart due to frictions you had with yourself?

  • Social Event Ideas

    As someone who doesn’t have fun easily with other people, I’ve had to be creative and figure out events that do anything to my deadened social circuits. I like events that are weird, or mentally challenging, or nominally do something useful. Competitive Socializing Filler Words The win condition is eliminating filler words such as: “um”, “like”, “you know”.