level 1: co-hosts invite 1 guest each
Each one of you invites a guest you find interesting. It could be a friend or new acquaintance. Your co-host should not know your guest. The guest should not be a significant other.
an Oz Chen social experiment
dinner with strangers
make new friends
through vetted 2nd degree connections. No creepers, unless you are one :D
intimate setting
max party of 6 in someone’s dining room. Phones are silent to allow for good conversation.
potluck style
talk over your favorite munchies. Oz will usually make something vegetarian/vegan, cause LA.
curious? go to the bottom to sign up…
how it works
level 2: guests invite 1 guest each
Each guest invites one person they find interesting. Same rules apply to them – it can’t be someone they already know, nor can it be their significant other.
new connections made
The co-hosts meet 3 new people that night: your guest’s guest, your co-host’s guest, your co-host’s guest’s guest. (Say that 3 times fast).
Your 1st level guests meet 4 new people, and the guest’s guests – those at the end of the “chain” so to speak – meet 5 new strangers friends!
designed for intimacy
phones off
Phones should be turned off or everyone stacks them in the middle of the table.
Exception: if there’s a designated photographer for the night
make introductions
In the beginning, guests do not say what they do professionally. Your name, where you’re from, hobbies are all game.
Career talk can commence with question 1*?
deeper conversations
Encouraging vulnerability through good questions:
- *What’s something you’re working on?
- What are you struggling with?
Intrigued?
I’m opening Dinner with Strangers for a limited time to strangers on the internet.
If you’re in sunny Los Angeles and you wanna meet me (+ new friends), sign up for the email list.
You’ll get, and it’ll put you on the Ozmosis newsletter too.