This is brilliant honestly. I ran a small meetup last year and kept worring about having 'enough structure' when really ppl just wanted space to be together. The paradox of planning to be unstructured is kinda wild tbh, like trusting forty people to just hang feels counter-intuitive as a facilitator. Turns out doing less is actully the hardest move.
This sums it up perfectly. I think it’s a bit like trusting moments of silence in conversation. It can feel awkward, especially you don’t know the other person/people very well. But if you can resist the urge to fill every gap in the conversation, you create space for everyone to think and share more thoughtfully. As you say, it’s about trusting that less can be more.
This is brilliant honestly. I ran a small meetup last year and kept worring about having 'enough structure' when really ppl just wanted space to be together. The paradox of planning to be unstructured is kinda wild tbh, like trusting forty people to just hang feels counter-intuitive as a facilitator. Turns out doing less is actully the hardest move.
This sums it up perfectly. I think it’s a bit like trusting moments of silence in conversation. It can feel awkward, especially you don’t know the other person/people very well. But if you can resist the urge to fill every gap in the conversation, you create space for everyone to think and share more thoughtfully. As you say, it’s about trusting that less can be more.