A resonant ritual will likely include:

• an inclusive Welcome
• definition of social design
• purpose (why we are here & what we do)
• invitation for agency (what participants might give/bring/take away)
• explicit invitation for a relational mood
• check-ins or group game

<aside> 💡 These are suggestions, please feel free to be creative and playful. There is an open invitation to make the ritual your own while keeping with the collective spirit.

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Here is an example offered by Niran:

"Everybody welcome to this meeting of the social design cooperative, where we come together every two weeks to practice social design.

Social design is a field that is really about designing social technology, social communities, basically social interactions between groups of people. That's very related to user experience design and the way that you're trying to design how people interact with software; social design is about designing how people interact with one another.

The social design cooperative is a place where we come together to do that. Our goal is to bring together as many people who are interested in social design as possible. Both so we can practice social design together, but also so we can meet each other get to know more of other people who are interested in this nascent field, and learn together, learn from each other from what each other are doing and from what other people know.

The structure of what we do together as the social design cooperative is intended to be an open space. Each week we come together without a pre-planned agenda. It's an open space for our members to be able to bring to what they want to do and to do it with each other.

We kick it off by basically laying out what the set of activities will be for this week's meeting, and then people can choose which breakout room they want to attend. Whenever you have an idea of something that you want to do with the people and it's social design cooperative, this is the place for you to make that happen. You can propose it and hopefully people come and join your thing. It is also the place for you to join what other people have crafted for you to participate in each session.

So with that said, we kick off with check-ins, and then we'll dive into the breakout sessions after that."