3AM Friends Online Seminar

Building Community that Matters

Overview

Grow more powerful connections with people that matter to you using time-tested wisdom.

In this online live seminar that runs for a total of 8 weeks, you’ll experience making community a natural and integrated part of your life. You’ll grow unrecognizably stronger to create the relationships you and others turn to when needed most.

Course Purpose

  • To provide you with powerful tools for creating enriching and fun relationships around you everywhere you go

  • To upgrade your future by making community growth and access a natural and integrated part of your life

  • To allow you to see immediate and accessible opportunities to facilitate integrated friendships where others are blind

  • To give you self-authorized permission to connect the people you meet and care about most

 

Course Outcomes

  • You will clearly grasp principles and available actions to enrich the communities in all areas of your life

  • You will be able to understand how your past experiences worked in building community so that you can recreate success in your future for fun, friendship, and health

  • You will get a deeper understanding of what’s possible in bringing people together in life-enriching and supportive ways

  • You will be inspired by the possibility of a life connected with others at times you and they most need it

 

Course Format

  • The seminar runs for 8 weeks. Each week, we’ll spend 90 minutes on principles that create deep relationships that we can trust in critical times when life’s challenges are thrown our way.

  • Interactive discussions both in plenary and in small groups give you insights on available actions to enrich the communities in all areas of your life.

  • You’ll join a small group to support classmates to take action with time-tested principles to make a difference with the people you care about.

Starts on January 25, 2024

3AM Friends Seminar

9:30pm to 11:00pm ET / 6:30pm to 8:00pm PT

 

Pricing

8-Session Seminar
Including all take-home materials:
$399

 

“Overall, the (seminar) has been an incredible resource for professional support and a rare opportunity to learn and grow while preserving a good sense of honesty and vulnerability. Being part of this community has helped me identify the gaps I have found when working with communities in the corporate world. It has also led me to look with a different perspective at the challenges I have faced and find creative solutions that I can try and discuss live with fellow professionals. ”

— KATHERINE MORILLO, PROGRAM MANAGER, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

 “I took this course as a goal for work, to take on something out of my comfort zone. This course gave me tools to use to open up a new path in life. I felt welcome during all the meetings, and appreciated the course had a cadence and gave us time to get to know each other better. The new skills I learned/awakened within myself will forever be ingrained in my mind. I am constantly looking for ways to create new and meaningful memories and connections. I am more open to reaching out to others and sharing the skills I learned. I do hope to work again with Charles, Gracie, and Julia in the future. Thank you all! I really enjoyed working with you and I will miss "seeing" you each week.”

— ANGELA FRATI, Executive Assistant to the Dean, UCONN LIBRARY

“US Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, has just released a new Advisory on the Epidemic of Loneliness - and the vital role of connection. Charles Vogl's pivotal work guides the way forward with powerful insights, practical tools - and critically - clarity on the why's and how-to's of connection that enable us to move forward with confidence.”

— TASNIM BENHALIM, FOUNDER & CHIEF LEARNING OFFICER, DIVERSITY WEALTH

Make the connections you want
with the people you want
using time-tested wisdom and power.

 

The Principles of Community Building

Building on the work shared in Charles Vogl’s books, this online seminar will give you the opportunity to learn deeper nuance, participate in small group conversations, practice fundamental community-building skills, and grow brave to deepen your relationships with others.

 
 

Community Building

Understand that community in its true sense is always built on the context of generosity. It is never sourced for manipulation or extration. Community relationships form between people who care about one another’s welfare.

Invitations

Here, an invitation is a request to spend time together where someone knows someone else cares if they join. It requires an effort to reach out and connect, beyond an email, SMS, Slack or WhatsApp message.

Campfire Principles

We will recognize the kind of experiences that knit people together to form connections and caring. Intimacy creates the kind of connections that bind but are not restrictive, and so allows for growth. We’ll go over the foundations that must be laid down in order to make these intimate experiences succeed.

3AM Friends

Real success in community building is forming 3AM friends whom we know we can call when we have a 3AM emergency. They are also the people who better call us when they have a midnight emergency. You will recognize the authenticity of the relationship when such a level of trust develops.

FAQs

  • 3AM Friends Seminar is designed only for those who seek to create a life connected with others and to connect others in supportive and enriching ways. Participants are ready to invest time and attention to bring others together instead of simply complaining that people are too disconnected.

    Participants show up ready to learn and they recognize that our era’s cultural norms are not going to deliver the connections we want and need.

  • There is no need to attend a live event with Charles first. The principles discussed in the seminar are included in Charles’ books. It is recommended that you read The Art of Community to get introduced to a shared language.

    Suggested readings also include Social Chemistry: Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection by Marissa King and The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker.

    At the end of the day, you join the workshop to grow as a powerful person to make a difference. Reading is always a great resource to support growth.

  • The seminar is designed to make participants effective in their lives and with people that matter to them. Participants will spend about an hour each week practicing to make the lessons effective. They will also join a small group to support classmates in their own growth so that we all grow together.