How to Make Friends in Just Three Days
By Ida Williams, Director of Marketing and Communications How do you make new friends in just three days? 1. Use the enticement of dogs. 2. Engage with the mystique of the Monks of New Skete. 3. Indulge with monastic hospitality. That is what happened this past weekend at New Skete’s The Art of Living with Your Dog Seminar. Twenty-eight guests, dubbed the Storm Troopers, * left on Sunday afternoon sharing hugs, email addresses, and a few tears. (Oh, wait. The tears were mine.) The first thing we all had in common is dogs. The guests love dogs, the brothers love dogs, the staff and volunteers love dogs. What were we talking about? Oh, yeah, DOGS. Photos of dogs were shown on smartphones, and dog stories were shared. There were dogs in the classroom, dogs being trained in the room next to the classroom, dogs lying next to our feet while we ate lunch under cover of a tent, and eight puppies in ...