The Coffee Shop Networker – Work-Shop

Overview

It seems so easy these days to make new friends and contacts — online. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Tindr, Grindr: it's all as easy as a swipe right or a follow. But what about that old-fashioned, chaotic mess of serendipity that is meeting people in real life? That, you're probably doing far less often. What do you even say to start chatting to a stranger without sounding creepy, weird, desperate or simply too networky?

Some tips from communication expert and social coach Russy Ross from the Social Collective should get you on your way. He’s coming to Redfern’s Work-Shop HQ to run a class by the name of The Coffee Shop Networker: The Art of Meeting People, Anywhere, Anytime.

You walk in there with a pen, a notebook and the fiercest case of social awkwardness since Napoleon Dynamite. You walk out with the tools to turn on your charisma, ease and smarts, whenever you need them. Russy Ross will demonstrate that approaching people and keeping a conversation flowing is a much easier and more enjoyable task than you think.