Community vs audience
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Jul 23, 2026 · Hotel Caravelle Saigon
The Art of Belonging: Building Trust, Community & Enduring Relationships
A half-day workshop for founders on building trust, belonging, and resilient relationships with the people most important to their work and life.
Time1:30 PM - 6:00 PM
FormatInteractive workshop
CohortLimited to 50
Why this matters
Networks are useful. Real community is stronger
In a time of uncertainty and fragmentation, founders need more than a room full of contacts. They need communities of trust, mutual concern, and shared purpose.
Charles Vogl will work with EO Vietnam members on practical ways to design invitations, recognition moments, and intimate campfire experiences that create belonging and strengthen relationships that endure.
About Charles
Author of The Art of Community
Charles Vogl is an adviser, speaker, and author whose work helps leaders build deep community, resilience, and connectedness.
Trusted by Google School for LeadersFounding member of Google Vitality LabWork used by Airbnb, LinkedIn, Twitch, Amazon, Target, Dow, and the U.S. ArmyYale M.Div. in spiritual traditions, ethics, and business
Pre-readThe Art of CommunityView the book
What you will learn
Practical tools for relationships that outlast the event
Intentional invitations
Design invitations that make people feel seen, chosen, and ready to participate.
Campfire experiences
Create small moments where people share enough truth to build meaningful trust.
Recognition rituals
Use acknowledgment, symbols, and simple rituals to strengthen belonging.
Resilient relationships
Protect critical relationships before stress, change, or emergencies test them.
Next actions
Leave with specific moves you can use with your team, customers, peers, and family.
Workshop format
A working room, not a lecture
Attendance is capped at 50 to protect the quality of discussion, reflection, and small-group exercises. Come ready to apply the principles to real relationships.
By the numbers
- 40members attended
- 4.5event value, from 17 responses
- 23companies represented
Recap
Twenty minutes into Charles Vogl's workshop, people had turned their chairs away from the stage. In small groups, they were already talking about a relationship built on trust.
The Art of Belonging moved from presentation to conversation almost at once. Le Tuan Anh opened the afternoon. Harley Trung introduced Charles, author of The Art of Community. Then the room got to work on each other.
An invitation is personal
Charles drew a line between an announcement and an invitation. An announcement can reach anyone. An invitation tells one person their presence would be noticed. A handwritten note, a direct message, a conversation that cannot be automated. The effort is the message.
It doesn't even matter if people say yes. Just the invitation builds connection.
Charles Vogl
Around the campfire
He used the image of a campfire: a circle small enough for people to give one another their attention. Grow it too large and everyone stops holding a relationship with everyone else. The oldest tool we have for trust still beats whatever we keep trying to replace it with.
What founders took away
One attendee summed up the lesson in two words: be inefficient. Awkward advice for founders who spend their days making things faster and easier to scale. That may be exactly why it landed. Yen Do, who championed the event, closed by thanking Charles and presenting him with a personalized EO jacket.
- TH★★★★★Trung Ho
The definition of Invitation and Camp Fire session
- EL★★★★Elaine Le
The frame work is good to navigate through. It would be nice if we have time to go deeper (but i guess i’ll read the book)
- QU★★★★Quan
Connections happen in intimate settings Group of 5 Camfire