How To Host A Pillow Party
Pillow parties are all the rage. Run professionally in a safe and supervised environment they provide the guests with an amazing amount of freedom to get to know each other in a more emotionally and physically liberating way…without the need for sexual contact.
Continued from Pillow Parties – what’s it all about?
Step 1 – Setting Up The Space – You just need one big open room that is moderately lit. Lamps are ideal. Don’t use candles as there’ll be lots of fabric in the room that could create a potential fire hazard.
Step 2 – The Entrance – Make sure your guests all arrive around the same time. As this is a more emotionally as well as physically intimate type of party, it will make it difficult if someone shows up half-way through the introductions. You need to create a safe space for people to talk and get to know each other better.
Step 3 – Introductions With A Twist – Get your guests to pair up with the closest person to them (usually of the opposite sex, but it doesn’t have to be) and to get in as comfortable position as possible. Each person will work out where they want to sit, stand or lie down…there are no expectations.
At this point, we usually play a “getting to know you game” and instruct them to have a conversation with the other person, to find out as many interesting, unusual or funny things as they can about them. Give them a timed 3 minutes to do this. Once the time is up, they then introduce the other person to the rest of the group.
Once they’ve taken the first step in getting to know one another, it’s surprisingly easy to want to reach out and rub someone’s shoulders, or ask for a hug.
Step 4 – The Secret Step – This simple yet highly effective game encourages people to mingle and move around and get to know each other even better, and runs by itself in the background for the next hour or so, allowing you to relax. It does all the hosting for you. You can find out the detailed instruction for how to set up this amazingly simple and powerful game in our Party In A Parcel Package.
Step 5 – Ask Your Guests To Leave – From experience, we know that people can get so comfortable and relaxed with this whole process of the pillow party that they just DON’T want to go home. Four hours is really the maximum amount of time that is wise to spend in a close knit space like this.
If your guests have met someone they want to ‘take things further with’, they can move along to their own homes, a coffee shop or motel. There’s an old saying, “Quit while you’re ahead” and in this situation it really is best to finish the night on a high.
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