<aside> ✨ We’re opening our collaborative learning sessions up to friends of Planes 🧑🤝🧑 Join us at the next one by signing up below 👇
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Give us a few details below and we’ll send you the info about the next event via email with a calendar invite. Feel free to ask your pals along too!
https://form.typeform.com/to/sqrNG0dq
Great teams that build great products need diverse sources of inspiration and learning.
Lots of businesses do this, often as ‘lunch and learn’ sessions. We think this pinches people’s lunchtime, meaning they are often multi-tasking and distracted.
So instead we borrowed a concept from the Swedes 🇸🇪 to start ‘What the Fika?!’: our monthly-ish afternoon inspiration session.
<aside> ✨ Fika is a concept, a state of mind, an attitude and an important part of Swedish culture. It means making time for friends and colleagues to share a cup of coffee (or tea) and a little something to eat. Fika cannot be experienced at your desk by yourself (although Covid has made this harder). That would just be taking coffee and cake. Fika is a ritual.
All Swedes consider it important to make time to stop and socialise: to take a pause. It refreshes the brain and strengthens relationships. And it makes good business sense: businesses have better teams and are more productive where fika is institutionalised. [Read more on it here](https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20160112-in-sweden-you-have-to-stop-work-to-chat#:~:text=Fika%2C a Swedish custom where,workplace tradition in the country.)
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We love this description as it’s all about hanging out together, away from our day-to-day, while seeking inspiration from all walks of life.