The Dinner Party
The Dinner Party is a platform for grieving 20-, 30-, and early 40-somethings to find peer community and build lasting relationships. Since 2014, The Dinner Party has connected more than 13,000 grieving peers to one another, including 2,000 since the start of the pandemic. The Dinner Party screens, trains and supports a growing network of peer hosts, and connects them to 12-15 people nearby, who share a similar age and loss experience.
At Eluna, our programs are built upon the tranformative power of peer support and we are excited to recommend The Dinner Party as they provide critical peer community for this age group, when grief and loss is uniquely experienced.
Their mission is to transform some of our hardest conversations and most isolating experiences into sources of community support, candid conversation, and forward movement using the age old practices of gathering and breaking bread.
The Dinner Party foresees a day in which people find, amidst their deepest struggle, the source of their deepest strength, by connecting with others who’ve been there too; a day in which grief is free of stigma and silence, and where finding friends who’ve shared your experience is as easy as finding an AA meeting or a yoga class. The Dinner Party foresees a day in which those who’ve lived through loss, whatever its form, are recognized not as objects of pity, but as better listeners and better leaders, characterized by profound empathy, resilience, agency and a commitment to living a life of meaning.
