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

10/28/22 • 65 min

#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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10/28/22 • 65 min

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

Transcript

Intro

[00:00:00] Jed Lazar: I don't think we see the value of connection, just like we don't think about the value of nature. There's not a value placed on that. And so we think we can exploit the natural environment. There's not a clear KPI for relationship and human connection.

[00:00:18] Nirish Shakya: that's Jed Lazar, co-founder of the Board Game. Cozy, Juicy Real. In this episode, I had a chat with Jed and his partner Sophia Lazar. Jed and S

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