Return to Events: Blue Sky Thinking
When we come together we step outside of our comfort zones and regular thinking and open ourselves to new, innovative ideas. When you’re gathered together, away from the distractions of regular life, your mind opens and creativity flows. While there was lots of innovation around online events, COVID stopped in person events in its tracks, but that seems to be changing. Here’s our chance to brainstorm ideas of how we can do that. The Goals of This Exercise We have three goals we to cover in this exercise: support organizers as they navigate COVID concerns help attendees feel safe and comfortable offer resources and options that make being together at in person events exciting and interesting If we don’t meet the first two, then the community is unlikely to use our ideas. Why? The people we’re trying to bring with us have changed. This article from Andrea Middleton dives into that a little more. As people, we’ve been through a lot. We’ve all made some painful choices and work extra hard just to manage what used to be simple tasks. We’re tired and we’re more cautious than ever. That said, if our organizers feel supported and our attendees feel safe,…
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