Gathering starts with purpose.

Gathering plays a central role in growing community, building skills, and nurturing our leadership. We help each other build morale and unity through gathering. 

We know that organizing entails important tasks like decision making, base building, securing commitments, and strategizing but we often attend less to the so-called softer elements of our meetings that can help build the relationships, purpose, and morale to sustain ourselves through tougher times. 

Gathering well may even have higher stakes today as we struggle over shaping society for the good of all over authoritarianism and destruction.