hello!
next week’s salon will be on happiness and joy. I’m curious to hear everyone’s perspectives and experiences with both happiness and the lack of it.
some prompts:
do you feel like you know what makes you happy? does that change?
is “being happy” the goal? are there other more important goals? is focusing too much on happiness the wrong approach?
is it possible to be happy all the time? is some amount of sadness/struggle required for happiness to be possible?
put your name here and I’ll add you to the cal invite.
other things on my mind
salon timing
I’ve been kinda arbitrary with the days and times of these salons, but I’m open to trying out different times so more people can make it. are there other days/times that you prefer? feel free to reply to this email or DM me somewhere!
in-person salons?? (nyc)
I really wanna do this now that things are opening up. if you’re in new york please hit me up if you’re interested in this!! I’m trying to think about venues especially so would love to know if you have one in mind (e.g. your apartment?)
the in-person salons could be a convo just like our zoom salons, or it could be an unstructured intellectual-y hangout time where we talk about whatever or play board games or read or just be friends yay.
salon & wine
shoutout to Karen for the brilliant idea – one of these days I wanna do a “salon & wine” where we have a salon and drink wine lol. soon.
invite a friend!!
pls and thanks
improv & social interaction games
what if we used salon to practice random social skills??? or improv?
e.g. assertiveness training. or 5-min unprepped monologues on a topic of your choice. and so on.
general overview of salons
for those of you who have joined more recently, I recommend the resources on this page to get a better sense of what we’ve talked about / what the salons are like. (although some of it is already out of date tbh).
but I just wanted to say: even if you haven’t attended a single one you can start by attending the next one!!! the topics are so divergent that there’s actually very little continuity between the salons and there’s absolutely zero expectation that you will have “context” on past conversations. everyone is super friendly and it’s not the same group of people every time. and there’s always at least a few people who have never attended before. so come thru!!!
ok that’s it!!! see you next time. ❤️