Getting cozy, juicy and real with your colleagues - Sophia and Jed Lazar

Design Feeling

#022 - Would you like to get cozy, juicy and real with your colleagues, friends and family? Most of the time, we stay on the surface while interacting with people . We do a lot of small talk on topics like the weather, TV shows or just work. But those conversations don’t allow us to connect with people at a deeper level and get to know the real person behind the social mask.

In this episode, I spoke with with Sophia Lazar and Jed Lazar. Sophia and Jed are board game designers and group facilitators who are on a mission to help people have deeper and more meaningful interactions. I had wonderful chat with Sophia and Jed as they shared their story of co-creating the game with their users and their biggest learnings and tips on building meaningful connections with people through deliberate and carefully designed prompts. If you’re someone who wants to build deeper connections with your team, friends or family, then this episode is for you.

In this episode:

• Creating and co-creating a board game with users
• Biggest challenges for teams in building connections online
• Difference between connecting deeply and oversharing
• Creating a space for trust
• True empathy vs manufactured empathy
• and much more!

Shownotes

Cozy Juicy Real website

https://cozyjuicyreal.com/

Online Team building

https://go.cozyjuicyreal.com/dsf-teams

Physical Board Game for Friends

https://go.cozyjuicyreal.com/dsf-notifyme

Upcoming Cozy Juicy Real events

https://go.cozyjuicyreal.com/ig-links

Dilts Pyramid - The Neurological Levels

https://www.landsiedel.com/en/nlp-library/neurological-levels.html

Rose, Thorn and Bud

https://easyretro.io/templates/rose-bud-thorn/

Appreciative Inquiry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appreciative_inquiry

The Gottman Institute

https://www.gottman.com/

ManKind Project

https://mankindproject.org/

Show credits

Illustrations by Kim Habib

http://iamk.im/

Music by Brad Porter

https://prtr.co/

Episode edited by Niall Mackay

https://sevenmillionbikes.com/

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Chương

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Welcome (00:02:37)

3. What's Cozy Juicy Real? (00:04:05)

4. How the game works (00:06:49)

5. Starting conversations with cozy questions (00:10:56)

6. Examples of cozy, juicy and real questions (00:11:37)

7. The process of creating Cozy Juicy Real (00:14:14)

8. Co-creating and letting go of control of the product direction (00:19:32)

9. Managing fear of showing early stages of the prototype to users (00:21:02)

10. Biggest challenges for teams in building connections online (00:24:23)

11. Why we don't make time for connections (00:25:47)

12. Difference between connecting deeply and oversharing (00:31:49)

13. Creating a space for trust (00:33:12)

14. Encouraging people to be vulnerable and personal (00:37:57)

15. True empathy vs manufactured empathy (00:41:38)

16. What would Sophia or Jed do differently (00:46:14)

17. Introducing a new tool as an external facilitator vs internal expert (00:50:10)

18. Best resources that've helped Jed and Sophia (00:52:59)

19. The real question Sophia and Jed would ask themselves (00:57:33)

20. Sophia and Jed's last words for humanity (00:58:53)

21. Recap of the episode (01:00:16)

22. Finding Sophia and Jed online (01:03:12)