Friendship Practice
A workshop where we talk in person and in real time
Four standalone sessions: December 3rd, 6th, 13th, and 17th, 2022
Friendship Practice is a new workshop-in-development where we practice talking with each other face to face, in person and in real time. It’s an experimental response to the distance and isolation so many of us feel, and our human want and need to share friendship and connection. Join a test workshop and collaborate on “talking with people” with facilitator Cara Olexa.
Four standalone test workshops 12/3-12/17. Register for each workshop separately at Friendship Practice Events (drop-ins also very welcome!):
Test #1 (Saturday 12/3, 11am-1pm)
Test #3 (Tuesday 12/13, 7-9pm)
Test #4 (Saturday 12/17, 11am-1pm)
FREE! Your feedback is the most valuable thing you can give. Donations also welcome.
COVID: Bring your vaccination card showing you’re fully vaccinated including a booster within the past three months. (You don’t need proof of booster if you’ve recovered from COVID within the past three months.) Masks are optional. Expect to be sitting around a table with other participants.
MORE ABOUT FRIENDSHIP PRACTICE
A lot of us want to make new friends. This is something we can learn and practice.
A good way to make friends is to “do friendship” with people – talk with people with kindness and respect while being ourselves and making room for them to be themselves. We can ask for the conversation we want to have and let people say yes or no to it. Nobody has to be friends, but if we “do friendship” with enough people, friends will eventually pop up.
In this workshop, we'll learn from each other and troubleshoot “doing friendship” together. We’ll practice talking with each other face to face, in person and in real time. Some of talking is what to say and when and how to say it. More of talking is getting used to what it feels like to talk with people. But words and feelings, like everything else, get easier with practice.
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
Cara Olexa (she/her) is a writer who loves people. She has an MFA in fiction from New Mexico State University and has facilitated creative writing, memoir writing, and narrative medicine workshops since 2013. She's lived in Oregon, New Mexico, and twice in Illinois, but will always be from Ohio.