To help you lead the best events possible, learn from the tips below, including universal rules for great hosting, suggestions for standard event types, a guide to making the most of the community forum, and some frequently asked questions.

• The Four Rules of Hosting
• Event Types
• Guide to Using the Interintellect Discord
• Frequently Asked Questions

The Four Rules of Hosting

• Continuity: It can be difficult to share and engage when things feel transient. To help people open up and think together freely, Interintellect events communicate continuity. For any conversation, there is space to continue the discussion in the community forum, and for a series of events, we communicate upcoming dates. This means attendees know where they can see people again and how to build lasting connections.
• Imperfect Host: To make events accessible to any level of knowledge, we encourage hosts to be happily imperfect! We don’t teach, lecture, or give talks. A host is there to facilitate a conversation and to make sure all the important angles are covered, that everyone who has something to share is heard, and that everyone has a good experience.
• Ritual Space: Spaces of comfortable repetition allow people to open up. In an Interintellect event, you arrive, you intro, and you relax into the topic and your own realizations. Hosts are responsible for conducting the room in this spirit of hospitable reliability.
• Anchoring (to Truth): We start each event with a ritualistic prompt question. However complicated, personal or “hot button” the topic of the night is, we start with the truth: about ourselves and our experiences. Starting from this point of trust, transparency, and patience enables worries and suspicions to switch off, too.

Event Types

With so many different events to choose from and types of events to choose to host, here’s a quick overview of some popular forms:

• Salons: A salon is an evening length (1-3 hours) conversation around a specific topic, carrying the atmosphere of a living room gathering.
• Workshops: Something is being made during a workshop: We produce art, mind maps, some kind of framework for later use, etc.
• Reading Salons: Not just discussing something previously read, but reading them aloud on the spot, reading salons can cover poetry, prose, a scene from a play, song lyrics, etc. Readings can be shared in advance or the host can bring surprising new material the attendees encounter during the salon for the first time!
• Carousel Salons: At these events, there are icebreaker questions and a shared reception halls, but attendees move eventually into breakout rooms and rotate through various 1:1 sessions.
• Series Episodes: Series are ongoing events connected through a central topic and have episodes on a regular basis (monthly, weekly), but we encourage making each episode something anyone can jump into and experience on its own wherever possible.
• Book Clubs: The main goal is to discuss a book or other text. Each meeting of a book club might discuss a whole book or work steadily through a longer work.
• SuperSalons: These events feature special guests with one or two skilled hosts facilitating a discussion. They are distinct in including more time carved out for the guest, but always with an extensive Q&A where everyone can share questions and views. SuperSalons run for 1-2 hours and are recorded.
• Members-Only Events: These can cover all sorts of topics and forms, with the two defining features being that they are limited to members of the Interintellect community and are free to anyone in the community. These can be casual gatherings around holidays, game nights, open-ended discussions or serious salon-style discussions on any topic.