The Dinner Party: Ashoka Fellow Lennon Flowers

The Dinner Party is transforming life after loss from an isolating experience, to one marked by community and forward movement.
Lennon Flowers
Source: Lennon Flowers

Lennon Flowers describes how The Dinner Party has evolved so that it is “not exclusively as a vehicle for connecting around grief from death or loss, but for taking sources of struggle that are shared experiences and turning them into experiences of connectivity."

Ashoka Insight:

"It’s about turning loss from a conversation-killer into a conversation-starter and taking what are otherwise isolating experiences and turning them into profound sources of empathy and connectivity.

“Through, intimate, peer-driven dinner parties, we work to turn our most isolating experiences into sources of rich community, empathy, and meaningful conversation. As cagey and self-conscious as we are about those stories, when we share, it is an invitation to others to share theirs.”

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