Organizational Democracy

I host these collaborative learning events, which are potluck dinners where people make things.

At the first “Make Your Own Game” Night and Potluck Dinner, we got in teams, made interpersonal games, and then played them.  My favorite moment of the night was when we were gathered around and it was time to choose teams.  There were 14 of us.  Someone asked how we might get in teams, and I asked for suggestions.

“We’ll find people we want to be on teams with.”
“Let’s draw numbers from a hat.”
“I’ll be a judge!”

In all the uncertainty, which felt like surfing on a wave, balancing out all the different opinions and options, we ended up deciding to partner with people we’d like to be on teams with, and it went well.   The most satisfying part was that participants said they realized, within five minutes, that we could make anything we wanted.

Instead of playing a game someone else made, we could make our own games.  And we did.

• “Make Your Own” game rules summarized
• Team-building
• You’re invited to “Make Your Own” this Sunday April 15, 5:15pm
• How do we become “we”?
• As if it already happened

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