At Training House the host explores planning live, in-person movement and connection events for Cadre and outlines a community model—an upside-down triangle from public platform to interpersonal impact to one-on-one connections.
Cadre is at Training House, the public part of the Minnesota Vikings training facility. Olympians train here; people who have never considered themselves to be athletes train here. We're meeting with the organizer of the space to talk about doing live in person connection movement style events here for Cadre.
On Tuesdays we talk about building community and the way that Cadre looks at knitting people together in creating community. The middle of the upside down triangle is creating what I like to call interpersonal impact opportunities. You are the most influential person in the lives of others.
Hey there, Cadre. How are you today? What is it, Tuesday? I hope you are doing good, my friends. Even if you're not, know that that is okay too. I am at. It's always nice when you can sit next to the name of a building. I am at Training House. Training House is the public part of the Minnesota Vikings training facility. So right over there there's tons of people who are either doing physical therapy or training for their craft, their sport. Olympians train here. People who have never considered themselves to be athletes train here.
It's just this big meeting place for people to do things together. I'm going to take a class in a couple of minutes here, but then afterwards I'm meeting with the organizer of the space to talk about doing live in person connection movement style events here for Cadre. That's what I want to chat with you about today. But first I want to say good morning, Amy. Hey, Jules, nice to see you. My friends, how are you? On Tuesdays we talk about building community and the way that Cadre looks at knitting people together in creating community and bringing the Cadre sphere to activity and fullness and life.
It's kind of a. It's kind of an upside down triangle or an upside down pyramid. And then there's three parts. The top of that upside down triangle is what we're doing here. This connection through the platform to anyone and everyone at all times through social media. The middle of the upside down triangle is creating what I like to call interpersonal impact opportunities. What does that mean? Something happens when people spend time together, like in person, like in spaces where they have to go, okay, I'm going to show up to this thing and there's going to be other people there and then all of a sudden we're going to do something together.
I'll talk more about that in a second. And the bottom of that upside down triangle or pyramid is that because I've been in the Cadre sphere, because I've been impacted by other people, then all of a sudden I get to the place where I go, wow, you know what I think I really need? X that one on one connection, that one on one service, that one on one pathway, it funnels down for everybody to go, huh, so what do I need and where can I find it? Well, the what you need you're gonna find through the daily activity of being in a Cadre sphere.
Finding the what? That's, that's, that's, that's it. Or the where. The where is within this space. So what happens when people Spend time together on Tuesdays. I normally talk about the idea of the outward facing click, right? A click which is normally an inward facing, like this is my thing, I don't want anyone else to be a part of it or I'm not thinking about other people being a part of it because I'm thinking about what I get out of it. The idea of the outward facing click is to keep that sentiment of like, we have something special together and now we want to share it.
That interpersonal impact part of that triangle, or let's expand it out a little bit, that interpersonal impact part of your life. When you are around other people and you go, wow, by us spending time in activity, in challenge and success and failure and conversation and discomfort and comfort and courage and vulnerability and all of those things, something happens to us. I've been honored to lead a lot of events like this throughout my life. I was a high school tennis coach, I was a youth director.
Lots of work within supporting different nonprofits and bringing people together around cause and function and funding. And then in a corporate sense spending time with teams of people going, how do we do what we do? Why are we doing what we're doing? Who are we doing what we are doing with? And I've worked within the, in religious minded spaces ever since I was 8. All of these places are opportunities for interpersonal things to exist between people things. Here's how I finish. Every single time I hold space for people, I say, hey, you know what?
Imagine someone came up to you afterwards and said, hey, so what was that thing? What would you say? I always point out that a lot of the times, the things that were really meaningful and moving to people, they don't know how to put into words, they go, well, you know what? Yeah, yeah, we did that, we did that thing. But when we were doing the thing together, all of a sudden we found other things about ourselves. We found other opportunities to connect or to dream or to go, huh, so what do we do?
Because we understand our connection to the greater space, the greater community. Here's my invitation to people. I go say this. You know, it's hard to speak about what happened at that event, but I really think you would appreciate being there. We have the most influence over the people who we care about and who care about us than anybody else in this world. I think we often go, it's like, oh, I don't have influence or I'm not an influencer or I don't speak well or I don't do social media or whatever.
And we go, I don't have influence. You are the most influential person in the lives of the people who look at you as someone that they care about, that they trust, and vice versa. So if you look at people in your world and you go, gosh, that person really needs something, but I can't be the person who influences them. I would say the complete opposite. When there's truly opportunity for interpersonal connection and impact, there's no poster, there's no headline, there's no gimmick or giveaway that is bigger than you saying, you know what?
I think we should go to this thing together. Or, hey, you know what? I'm not going to be able to be there, but I'm going to connect you with three other people who I've met, and they're going to go ahead and be so excited to meet you, too. So my invitation for you today, community builders, is to consider who you can impact through your influence into interpersonal activity. It's a lot of I's, y' all. Dr. Leslie Davis will be coming up right at the top of the day, noon Central standard time, give or take an hour or two.
If you're on the coasts, y' all, I'll see you tomorrow for a little mental health day. Talk to you later. Bye.
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