Are You Missing Out On a Friend Education?

Learning from Friend Education

What is a friend-ication? It’s a word that I made up of course. It is short for friend education. These are dinners you host for your friends where you can get together and share something you are passionate about. We all have friends that are knowledgeable in areas of life that we would love to know more about. I think we should give our friends the honor of sharing what they are passionate about and teaching something in the process.

So how does this work? Simple. Invite a group of 3-5 friends over to your house for dinner. Of course you can invite more friends if you'd like but we have done smaller groups. Make a great dinner or have everyone pitch in some delicious food. Prepare a 10-20 minute lesson on something you are an expert on. Teach that topic to your friends. I have a friend who is incredibly knowledgeable about rock climbing. He taught us all how to tie knots and build climbing anchors. We are all more knowledgeable when we go climbing together and he loved being able to teach us something.

I challenge you to try this with your friend group. Your relationships will grow, and you will get to learn about your friends in the process. Future friend education topics in the future of our group include a Pilates class, personal finance, acro yoga instruction and rock climbing skills.

I would love to see this idea sweep across the nation and become an idea for dinner party's for years to come. We would all know more about our friends and have deeper relationships, smarter for the knowledge they impart to us, and better communicators after preparing for and teaching a topic.

I was unable to find a picture from our friend education night but I have this goofy picture of the friend group climbing in Yosemite instead.

Let me know what topic you would love to teach your friends about in the comments below.