Making a Meet Cute: Offline Dating Strategies from Experts
In an era of dating app fatigue, we're all craving more offline interactions. If you're anything like our clients, you want to meet people through hobbies, through friends, or otherwise "in the wild," but you don't know where to start. If so, you're in luck, because serendipity can have a strategy!
Join 3 professional dating coaches for a peek behind the curtain at our work helping people build more productive, confident, and fun IRL dating lives.
We'll be covering:
Creating more opportunities to meet people IRL
Initiating new conversations and building confidence
Follow-through strategies to go from meeting to fostering connection
Communicating dating and relationship intentions
Leaning into your existing community to develop connections
How dating apps can fit into an IRL-first strategy
...and lots more!
You'll leave both with fresh perspectives and with a sample of the practical tools we use to support our own clients.
Meet your experts:
Stevie Bowen is a Certified Dating Coach, Author, and Founder of dating wellness platform, The City of Dating. Inspired by her dating memoir, The City of Dating is a safe space for daters to build dating confidence and date on their terms. Stevie's approach blends self-advocacy and communication to help daters heal triggers, explore their needs, and develop intentional tools to build honest relationships that align with them. Her mission is to rewrite the dating narrative and encourage daters to build an enjoyable dating life that leads to exploration and real connections.
Brandon Dawkins is the founder of Beyond Nice, and is a dating coach who reminds men that they don't have to stop being nice to start being loved. He works with men both 1:1 and through his event series "The Confidence Code" to help men move past the 'nice guy' label and step into confidence in their relationships and social life.
Elle Wilson is the founder of Met Through Friends, singles event host, and certified dating coach. What began as a series of parties for her real single friends has grown into a dating events and coaching company that introduces hundreds of single New Yorkers to each other each month. She prioritizes helping daters build the tools to create meaningful connections IRL, and works to make dating feel kinder, braver, and more fun.
This event will be moderated by Aristidis Marousas of Exploring Manhattan. He has built an audience based on his exploration of many different pursuits, and considers his platform a love letter to the people and places that make New York City so special.
You will have the opportunity to enjoy complimentary sips provided by:
Not that Sweet: A better for you hot chocolate. An elevated hot chocolate experience fully customizable to your tastebuds. Made fresh to order with high-quality, organic, and clean ingredients.
Curious Elixirs: booze-free craft cocktails, infused with adaptogens to help you unwind. Handmade with the best ingredients and no refined sugar.
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