Community Dinners/Meals

Objectives

• Build community
• Feed yourself and residents
• Check-in  with people
• Help residents bond

Summary
Community Dinner is almost considered part of the RA job description. It is often used by RA's to build community from the start of the year until the end. Sometimes it works wonderfully and sometimes your residents would prefer to feed themselves. Community dinner can be adapted in various different meal times and locations e.g. dessert, brunch, picnic, potluck, afternoon tea time.


Instructions
Space
Your house. A table somewhere. The ground.
Supplies

• Food
• Cooking Utensils
• Oven

Funding
Can be funded by each individual person or a community dinner fund collected at the start of the year. Make sure to put a spending limit for each meal.
Step by Step

1. Organize a day and time. (Sunday Dinners are usually the default)
2. Advise residents
3. Create a sign up sheet and a clean up team
4. Provide funds from collected money or individual pays
5. Check if they need anything
6. Yumma!
7. Optional: Add in a conversation tradition
8. Repeat as often as you wish

Results
Community Dinners are great way to set the mood for your house. They are usually easy to organize and draw people together simply because of food. Trying to encourage conversation in order for people to get to know one another is a good idea. Conversation traditions are great at keeping conversation going over food. You can also just let it naturally happen. Community meal times can be as quick or small as you want.

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