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FEATURED STORIES ABOUT THE DINNER PARTY
Good Housekeeping
The Power of Breaking Bread
“We were here, speaking about our sadness in ways we rarely had the opportunity to do otherwise, thanks to a nonprofit organization called The Dinner Party.”
Good Housekeeping / Read the Article Here
(Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)
The Washington Post
Like therapy, but better: The holiday dinner party that makes space for grief
“The gathering felt more like a friendly hangout than a structured group therapy session…the goal of the organization is simply to offer communal support to young people who are trying to learn how to live well after loss.”
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NPR Morning Edition
At This Dinner Party, Talking About Death With Strangers Isn’t Taboo
“The guests at this potluck dinner had never met in person before, yet they’d come together to talk about something that has profoundly affected each of them — the loss of a loved one.”
CNN’s Vital Signs with Sanjay Gupta
The Science of Stress: Dinner party turns loss into a conversation starter
“We’ve found that an experience that’s normally isolating is actually an extraordinary tool for connection: a way to go beneath the surface, and to find meaning and commonality with someone you might no meet otherwise.”
Nylon
How The Dinner Party Became a Place to Talk About Death
“To an outsider, it seemed like a typical dinner party, except Fernandez and her "friends" had actually never met before, though they all shared a life-altering experience: each had lost a parent, and they were there to talk with one another about it.”
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Oprah Magazine
You’re Stronger Than You Think | A Refuge When Nobody Understands Your Loss
“It’s not just about getting together and talking about loss, but finding a community that shares your story.”
Fast Company
Grief Is A Seismic Force For Social Change
“That good things grow out of bad things is a story familiar to anyone who’s ever watched a Disney film, or considered the relationship between adversity and resilience in the fabled hero’s journey.”
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On Being with Krista Tippett
Breaking Bread and Healing Hearts One Dinner Party at a Time
“[the word ‘grief’] feels attached to institutions that most of them have avoided because they seem too formal or prescriptive, too determined to show them the way in which their grief is just like everybody else’s.”
ADDITIONAL PRESS
New York Times / Rekindling Human Contact in the Digital Age, by Fixes columnist David Bornstein
Fast Company / How to Make Tense Holiday Conversations Civil (Or Even Productive)
Southwest The Magazine / The Dinner Party: How sharing a meal with a group of strangers showed me the healing power of community
PBS News Hour / Millennials haven’t forgotten spirituality, they’re just looking for new venues
The Sunday Times (UK) / It’s lonely. You don’t have that one person you can count on, who you can be completely open with
Los Angeles Magazine / The Dinner Party Is a Meet-up for Millennials In Mourning
Daily Good / The Dinner Party
Meeting the Moment / Lennon Flowers: Turning Loss into Discovery
CBS Philly / Brotherly Love: How Dinner Helps Young Strangers Bond Over Grief
Headspace / From grief to gratitude: finding a new way to talk about death
goop / The Memorial Dinner Party
NPR - 90.9 WBUR / At This Dinner Party, Talking About Death With Strangers Isn't Taboo
BuzzFeed / 27 Things That Can Really Help You While You're Grieving
The Huffington Post / The Dinner Party That Makes Grieving Good / How The Grieving Are Turning To New Traditions For The Holidays / These Three Women are "Reshaping Life After Loss"
Los Angeles Magazine / The Dinner Party Is a Meet-up for Millennials In Mourning
CBS 2 / KCAL 9 / The Dinner Party’ Gives Grieving Millennials New Kind Of Support System
Boston Globe / What millennials believe
Interfaith Voices / Secular Grieving: Breaking Bread and Raising a Glass
The Sacramento Bee / Grieving a parent’s death: A different goodbye for millennials
KQED News / Strategies for Dealing With the Death of a Loved One
The Daily Beast / Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone
The New School at Commonweal / #Realtalk: How Millennials Are Transforming Loss from A Conversation-Killer to a Conversation-Starter
WAMU 88.5 - American University Radio / Dinner Party Movement Offers Grieving Washingtonians A Gathering Place
KQED News / Finding Community in Shared Experience of Loss
GOOD / The Dinner Party: Changing How We Approach Life After Loss
Elephant Journal / The Reviving Art of the Dinner Party
Jewish Journal / Coping with Loss in the Age of the Internet
Aftering / The Dinner Party - backup for the bereaved
CBC Radio - Tapestry / Potlucks with purpose: Why Millennials are turning to Dinner Parties to talk about grief
WFMY 2 News / The Dinner Party Show How To Deal With Grief In A Unique Way
Chicago Tribune / How to handle your first holiday after a loss