The house party metaphor for community management: Essays and reflection questions to unlock your community programming through metaphor

This is the first of three booklets we are releasing in 2023/24, each of which consists of several parts where we set up a metaphor and then go deeper into some of the community management challenges that the metaphor is best placed to unpack, with some reflections questions to support you at the end of each section. Each series of essays was originally posted on the CSCCE blog, and then discussed at one of our monthly community calls. If you have any feedback, or would like to let us know how you've been using metaphors to guide your work, please email us: info@cscce.org. We'd love to hear from you! 

About CSCCE

The Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE) champions the importance of human infrastructure for effective collaboration in STEM. We provide training and support for the people who make scientific collaborations succeed at scale - and we also research the impact of these emerging roles. Find out more about us on our website: CSCCE.org