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Dinner Group Leader Orientation

The whole orientation, self-paced. Watch it on your own schedule.

Dinner group leaders talking around a table at the Better Together leadership conference

This is everything we cover in the live orientation, broken into two lessons you can watch on your phone. About 76 minutes of video, and you do not have to do it in one sitting. Most leaders do one lesson a night.

Grab the workbook first. You will write in it, and lesson 2 ends with you building your group’s ten week plan in it.

When you finish, book the leadership agreement walkthrough. That last piece is still a live 30 minute conversation, and it is the step that makes you a dinner group leader.

Open the Workbook First
Lesson 1 · 44 minutes

Foundations of Group Life

What a win is, the three values and two tensions you will be balancing all year, how people actually grow, and the three things we ask of every member. Workbook pages 1 to 4, plus page 10.

Lesson 2 · 32 minutes

Pillars of Small Group

The four pillars that keep a group from becoming the same night ten times, two sample ten week plans, and the grid where you build your own. Workbook pages 5 to 7.

Bonus · Not required before you lead

Two more, when you have time

Community Is Messy with Ana High, and Hospitality in Action with Sarah Neral. Both run longer than the lessons above, and both land better once you have led a few nights. Workbook pages 8 and 9.

After the two lessons

Book the leadership agreement walkthrough. Thirty minutes, live, with one of us. We do this with every new leader because we are extending our platform to you and we want to be on the same page about it. It goes both ways. The agreement says what we are asking of you and what you can count on from us.

Questions on anything in the lessons? Send them over. We would rather answer them now than have you sit on them.

New to all of this? Start Here lays out both of your first steps and the live orientation dates. Everything we have ever taught leaders lives on Training.

All four sessions come from the 2025 Better Together Conference. Watch them as a playlist or open the workbook.