Tony, one of the earliest experts in community co-working, had already pivoted to online community building before the pandemic. In this episode, Tony talks to us about using old and new technologies for creating meaningful communities across physical distance.

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More about our guest:
Tony Bacigalupo has been an organizer, entrepreneur, artist, gatherer, experimenter, alliance builder, and dreamer for his whole adult life. He built Manhattan’s first coworking space as a community gathering center. He organizes unconferences. He speaks, he writes, he looks for ways to get good people together in the room. 

Knowing the landscape in which we are working helps us meet the real needs--and Dr. Daniel Olson provides data on how the American Jewish community is experiencing and responding to Covid-19.

Additionally, it is critical that we know how to evaluate the impact of our minimum viable projects—our first tries at testing our new ideas—in order to figure out what we can and should change for next time so that we are more likely to achieve our intended outcomes. Daniel provides tips to quickly and easily evaluate your new projects.

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Priya is an expert on how to make our gatherings purposeful and meaningful. In this episode, she focuses on suggestions for how we can make our High Holiday gatherings meaningful, whether virtual or distanced-in-person. Priya invites us to think about how we can bring our people together across the generations, and honor the perspectives and expertise of each participant, of every age.

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Find more resources and support to make your Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, or any holiday more meaningful for your community by visiting CRI here: https://centerforrabbinicinnovation.org/

More about our guest:
Priya Parker is helping us take a deeper look at how anyone can create collective meaning in modern life, one gathering at a time. She is a master facilitator, strategic advisor, acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters and the host of the New York Times podcast, Together Apart. Parker has spent 15 years helping leaders and communities have complicated conversations about community and identity and vision at moments of transition. Trained in the field of conflict resolution, Parker has worked on race relations on American college campuses and on peace processes in the Arab world, southern Africa, and India.

Parker is a founding member of the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network, a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Values Council and the New Models of Leadership, and a Senior Expert at Mobius Executive Leadership. She studied organizational design at M.I.T., public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and political and social thought at the University of Virginia.

Parker’s The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters (Riverhead, 2018) has been named a Best Business Book of the year by Amazon, Esquire Magazine, NPR, the Financial Times, 1-800-CEO-READS and Bloomberg. She has spoken on the TED Main Stage, and her TEDx talk on purpose has been viewed over 1 million times. Parker’s work has been featured in numerous outlets including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, TED.com, Forbes.com, Real Simple Magazine, Oprah.com, Bloomberg, Glamour, the Today Show and Morning Joe. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Anand Giridharadas, and their two children.