Off topic, but curious: would you consider making your list of things you're considering for future salons public? and/or opening up a thread for suggestions?
Your topics so far have been brilliant, and I'm curious about the process of how you come to them, and what goes into framing them the way you do. Am also thinking of the commentator a few threads down sorting out relationship stuff, and wondering if there might be a way to host a discussion as part of the salon project or elsewhere talking about types of relationships people have with each other, and how to go about finding them / getting more out of the ones you already have. Not just romantic relationship - mentor-mentee, student-teacher, parent-child, colleague-colleague, sibling-sibling, and so forth. How we think about relationships; how our relationships with our biological families & our found families & our work colleagues & our teachers & our neighbors set our expectations for what relationships can be, and how expanding the types of relationships we might meaningful might help us recognize certain dynamics we get into with people. (A boss is a very different kettle of fish than a parent, for example, and a mentor isn't the same as a teacher who gives you a grade.)
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Re: Growing the communities we yearn for
Date: 2013-07-26 11:28 am (UTC)Your topics so far have been brilliant, and I'm curious about the process of how you come to them, and what goes into framing them the way you do. Am also thinking of the commentator a few threads down sorting out relationship stuff, and wondering if there might be a way to host a discussion as part of the salon project or elsewhere talking about types of relationships people have with each other, and how to go about finding them / getting more out of the ones you already have. Not just romantic relationship - mentor-mentee, student-teacher, parent-child, colleague-colleague, sibling-sibling, and so forth. How we think about relationships; how our relationships with our biological families & our found families & our work colleagues & our teachers & our neighbors set our expectations for what relationships can be, and how expanding the types of relationships we might meaningful might help us recognize certain dynamics we get into with people. (A boss is a very different kettle of fish than a parent, for example, and a mentor isn't the same as a teacher who gives you a grade.)