Big change starts around small tables.
Equity Dinners are intentional, guided conversations that bring people together to share stories, build trust, and spark transformation—one meal at a time.
📥 Download the "Courageous Conversations" Guide
Many teams avoid tough conversations, or push through them without care. The result? More distance, more frustration, and no real progress.
Equity Dinners are how we begin real transformation.
Our Equity Dinners create space for authentic, structured dialogue. We help you slow down, listen deeply, and move forward together.
We bring the framework, facilitation, and questions.
You bring your team, your appetite, and your willingness to engage.
Let’s set the table for something different.
After just one dinner, teams leave more connected, open, and ready to lead from a place of empathy and understanding.
What Happens at an Equity Dinner?
An Equity Dinner is more than just a shared meal—it’s a meaningful moment of reflection, connection, and conversation.
These dinners are:
Hosted in an intimate setting (in-person or virtual)
Guided by thoughtful questions and expert facilitation
Centered on identity, belonging, and lived experience
Designed to build deeper understanding across difference
Whether it’s your leadership team, staff, or community group, Equity Dinners help uncover what’s often left unsaid in a typical meeting room.
Why Conversation Matters
It’s easy to keep moving. To keep “working through it.” But real change—real connection—only happens when we slow down.
At an Equity Dinner, people feel:
Seen and heard
Less alone
Invited to share their truth
More willing to understand others
Open to a new way forward
“The biggest shifts we’ve seen don’t come from another PowerPoint. They start right here—over a meal, with a story, in community.”
Let’s Make It Happen
Format Options:
🍴 In-Person: We help you host a dinner on-site or at a local venue
💻 Virtual: We lead the conversation via Zoom, while you share a meal remotely
Add-on: Pair with our Foundations Workshop or Leadership Cohort for deeper support
Group Size: 6–15 participants
Length: 90–120 minutes
Customization: Questions tailored to your org or context
Resources: Downloadable Conversation Guide included for internal use
What Equity Dinner Attendees Are Saying
Keith Murphey, Former Board Chair of NJ Cars Advisory Board (New Jersey Coalition for Recovery Support
“As NJ Cars Advisory Board began our work with Both And Partners, we wanted to be able to have conversations about the impact of race and how it shows up in recovery. “NJ Cars was a well-intentioned community with an overall lack of understanding of how racial oppression makes recovery inequitable.
We found that people experience racism and discrimination in a variety of ways and it was our intention to support and advocate for all people in recovery.
Before our work together, I felt alone as I tried to bring equity as a value to our organization.
Both And Partners had a clear, kind process, helping us to build bridges within our Board and to have difficult conversations around biases and systemic racism. We were able to proceed at a pace allowing everyone to feel included and be comfortable with the learning.
NJ Cars attended and hosted Both And’s workshop, Foundations of Racial Healing, throughout New Jersey and have developed our peer leadership around diversity, equity and inclusion. With Both And Partners support, we have hosted Equity Dinners for our membership.
Acknowledging there is more work to be done, with the support of Both And Partners, NJ Cars has brought equity as a value to our organization and we are committed to this important work.”
