A Guide for Hemingway Chapter Leads & Ambassadors
First of all, thank you! You’ve taken on this role on top of full-time jobs, full lives, and probably quite a bit more going on. We don’t that that lightly and we want you to know that.
This playbook was designed with that reality in mind. It’s not a checklist of obligations but a set of templates which we hope will take most of the thinking out of putting on an event, so that you can spend your limited time on the parts that actually matter. Every format has been deliberately structured to be easy to run once you’ve done it a few times. None of them require you to invent anything – but please be our guest if you want to!
A few things to know:
Hemingway is a vetted, global community of founders, operators, clinicians and researchers shaping the future of mental health. Our chapter events are where the community comes alive in person and they are the biggest driver of trust and belonging.
To make sure that every Hemingway meet-up feels distinctly Hemingway, we’ve developed a set of signature event formats. Each one has a clear shape and signature elements that make it truly Hemingway. You can adapt the details to fit your city, venue and members, but the core elements should stay consistent. That consistency is what makes our formats recognisable, repeatable, and meaningful.