No matter what kind of party you attend, there's always the chance that you'll show up and you won't know anyone in the room. It can be a little scary and awkward, but it's really up to the host of the party to make sure that everyone is having a good time.
The exact same thing could happen at a Vision Board party. Though we want to create a community where people can immediately dive into networking, story sharing, and being open about the things that they want to achieve - it's easier said than done. Often, you're bringing people together who've never met each other and asking them to be vulnerable and open about the things that they are striving to accomplish.
To get that community of sharing and vulnerability, you’ll want to make sure that the agenda for your vision board party includes a lot of ice breakers
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What Is An Icebreaker?
Ice breakers are activities that help welcome people to new settings, warm up the conversation, and begin to build trust amongst each other.
These are my favorite ice breakers for a Vision Board party.
Introduce Yourself
This one sounds simple, but I've been to several parties where it's completely up to you to introduce yourself to new people.
I know I sound very outgoing, but there was a time in my life when I really struggled to introduce myself to people. Walking up to someone who I don’t know and extending my hand out to say hi was always very #awkward for me. I never knew what to say.
Great party hosts will take the awkwardness out of a meeting by giving everyone in the group an opportunity to introduce themselves through a structured activity. To do this, ask for attention in the room and ask each individual to introduce themselves to the entire room at once.
By creating a quick opportunity for people to introduce themselves, everyone is being equally as awkward as everyone else at the exact same time.
Along with them introducing themselves, ask each person to say something about their work, their passions, or their life experience. You could add some humor and ask them to share something no one would guess about them or their funniest moment depending on what the theme of the party is.
Share your challenges
Vision Board parties are unique because attendees walk in expecting to talk about their goals. No matter how accomplished or successful, goal-getters are always struggling with something. Since they're hard wired to find the next big goal, your attendees will always find new challenges, new road blocks and (sometimes) completely new experiences where they don't know how to get started.
By prompting people to share their struggles and challenges at the beginning of the Vision Board party, your attendees will have the rest of the evening to network already knowing what each person wants to do with the next phase of their life.
That means that everyone will have the unique opportunity to share feedback, helpful tips, and experience with each other. Attendees will end up leaving with a vision - and free coaching, mentorship, and maybe even answers to the challenges they’ve been struggling with.
Share Your Experience
Create an activity where everyone shares their professional experience. Your goal as the party host is to help your guests push their goal forward. By prompting the attendees to share their experience, each person in the room now knows who they can talk to for answers to questions they might have.
For example, one person in the room might be a new business owner who wants to get more customers. This activity could help that person identify people who are experienced business owners, marketing professionals, business coaches, tax professionals or business attorneys. By encouraging people to share their experience, you can be the facilitator in bringing people together.
Life areas brainstorm
You will notice that several people show up with dreams for boosting their careers, starting side hustles, having influence and affluence. Seems like people are really interested in making more money all the time so you don't have to worry about people walking in with #MoneyGoals.
You will want to create a more well-rounded experience by asking people to think about how they can enrich the other areas of their life. Encourage people to share those relationship goals, health goals and spiritual goals. If you begin the conversation by talking about the other things that make people human, then you can start to have those deeper conversations about everything that they want to start living their best life. Don’t forget to share your own experiences.
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share the vision
About 30 minutes before the event is over, ask everyone in the room to share the things that they put on their Vision Board. Many people do not finish their Vision Boards at the Vision Board party (and that's a good thing!) so they can share a few images and quotes that represent what they want to achieve next. This helps keep the conversation going even as people are leaving.
If all else fails, share wine.
Obviously.
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Vision Board parties can be incredibly powerful if they are done the right way. Make sure everyone at your event has a great goal-setting experience by encouraging them to share their story, their goals, and the things that they need help with. Getting everyone engaged in conversation about their goals will make sure that everyone has a positive experience at your Vision Board party.
Comment below with the big goal that you have your sights set on and will create a Vision Board for!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cyrene is a fun and accomplished workshop facilitator, learning and development guru and Human Resources professional. Being at the helm of Thrive Lounge has been a long-time dream. Through vision board workshops she plans to accomplish two-way learning. Sharing her vast years of knowledge to motivate and encourage others; while simultaneously getting the reward of great energy, ideas and questions to ponder back from each group. A super win-win. Please join our Thrive Lounge community so you too can benefit!
