Building Campfires:
Build Resilient Communities in a Divided and Lonely Era
History teaches us that for meaningful change, significant impact, and consequential movements that stand the test of time, we must first connect, empathize, and understand together. Building a community requires leaders and vision.
What to Expect
You will level-up your skills to connect the colleagues, neighbors and collaborators you care about in ways that support, mature and even heal them in the ways they seek.
You’ll know exactly what you can do next to destroy the isolation and disconnection that surrounds you in your schools, neighborhoods and profession.
You’ll leave feeling confident and inspired to take action to connect yourself and others into satisfying relationships that matter.
Building Campfires
We are hosting full day community leadership development workshops led by author Charles Vogl. This day-long event is designed to share time tested tools and principles for any leader to connect critical people for resilience and strength. Participants will experience an exciting day full of learning, community building, and sharing perspectives.
This event will leave participants with life changing new tools and a vision that connects them with the people who matter to us most. Learning objectives include:
Recognize community building in contrast to list building and audience growing.
Create invitations that lead to meaningful experiences
Plan the experiences that knit people together to form connections and caring.
Protect critical relationships in our communities that respond in emergencies.
Planned Sessions
Whether you are a first responder, a tech giant, medical professional, or a budding entrepreneur, you are part of your community. Your participation matters, and during these lonely times, your contribution has the power to create meaningful, memorable experiences that will connect you to your people, in a way that builds you up, and shares your purpose.
Each session shares insight and tools that you can use to The sessions are interactive experiences where we explore how time tested wisdom applies to the people and leadership each of us is working with now.
Recognize Community & Community Leadership: We will learn to recognize what community building means in contrast to list building, “engagement counting” and audience growing. This will allow us to recognize where there is already an unacknowledged community and what we’re inspired to create that will make a difference. We will explore how durable communities help us grow into who we want to be.
Invitation: We will distinguish the power, features and efficacy of powerful invitations that lead to meaningful experiences. They’re the tool that start all communities. We’ll reveal why many can’t even recognize them and distinguish them from announcements.
Campfire Principle: We will recognize the kind of experiences that knit people together to form connections and caring. We will explore these kinds of intimate events and reveal how easily we can create them for the people we care about in many contexts.
3 AM Friends: We will articulate the kind of relationships that most or all of us want people in our community who will respond in an emergency. The world will be different when everyone knows there are people ready to help when they need it. We’ll explore how we can build these kinds of relationships for ourselves and others as we bring people together.
Registration Information:
Events vary in fees. We’ll let you know once we have the details all set.
Please email Pollyanna Inc any questions you may have at clairehr.pollyanna@gmail.com. Pollyanna is the liaison for this Charles Vogl Building Campfires workshop. It is a national nonprofit helping academic institutions and corporations achieve diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging goals.
What People Are Saying
“It has influenced my approach to everyday life - I am constantly reflecting on my time with people and thinking about ways to strengthen relationships authentically and with intention.”
— YOM ODAMTTEN FOX
High School Principal, Georgetown Day School
Washington DC
“In a time when many of us search for the ways we can change the world, Charles helped me realize that depth can be as powerful as breadth. Getting through to one person among thousands may be all it takes to change the course of human history forever.”
— NIGEL SMITH
Founder, President & CEO, Zurena LLC
Silver Spring, MD
"Charles and his insights are truly helping me build communities that both internally grow my team and externally grow my business."
— ROSE JIA
Head of Growth Marketing
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