How To Make Deep And Meaningful Conversations Online with Jan Keck

Engaging Virtual Meetings Podcast with John Chen

Jan Keck is a community addict. He is the creator of ASK DEEP QUESTIONS, which started out as a deck of cards to help his friends connect on a camping trip and is now being used to facilitate meaningful conversations through sharing personal and vulnerable stories on every continent around the globe.

Jan’s mission is to help people feel less alone. So, by creating experiences, workshops, and programs, he is fueling the movement for deeper human connection. His work has been featured on TEDx, CBC News, Breakfast TV, Cityline, and HuffPost and he is currently building a community of facilitators that design the MAGICAL HUMAN MOMENTS online.

In this episode, we discuss:

🖌️ Designing a virtual experience

👑 Connection is king, not content

👨‍💻 How Jan handles common tech issues

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1. How To Make Deep And Meaningful Conversations Online with Jan Keck (00:00:00)

2. Introduction (00:01:19)

3. Walk on songs Jan likes (00:02:17)

4. Jan Keck background (00:04:01)

5. Pre pandemic events vs virtual pandemic events (00:05:47)

6. Designing virtual experience (00:07:18)

7. Why Zoom (00:10:28)

8. Gathertown app (00:13:20)

9. What has happened for a virtual meeting to be engaging (00:14:52)

10. What to consider when designing a virtual meeting (00:18:53)

11. Connection is king (00:20:34)

12. Jan answering a question from a viewer (00:22:51)

13. Building psychological safety (00:26:14)

14. How do you get people to feel safe to that deep conversation (00:27:50)

15. Top virtual moments Jan experienced during the pandemic (00:37:50)

16. Future of virtual meetings (00:42:22)