CROSSTALK · FREE CONVERSATION QUESTIONS
For the table where half the family only sees each other once a year.
Start with Warm Up and see where the conversation takes you. Ask one question, listen to the answer, and ask it back. Anyone can pass at any time. There is no rush to go deeper.
Warm Up
- What dish would you be heartbroken to see missing from this table?
- What is the best thing that happened to you this year that nobody here knows about?
- Who in this family would survive longest on a deserted island, and why?
- What tradition do you secretly love that you pretend to complain about?
- What is the funniest holiday disaster this family has ever had?
- If you could add one new tradition starting this year, what would it be?
- What is the first holiday you remember, and what stands out?
- Who makes the best dish at this table? Do not be polite.
- What would your perfect day off this weekend look like?
- What is a song that always reminds you of this time of year?
Get Real
- What are you most grateful for that you did not have last year?
- Who at this table taught you something you still use?
- What is a family story you want the younger ones to know?
- What was the hardest part of your year, and what got you through it?
- What is something you have never thanked someone here for?
- What is a goal for next year that you have not told anyone?
- What is something you learned about yourself this year?
- Who outside this table helped you this year?
- What is a family habit you have carried into your own life?
- What is something about this family that makes you proud?
Go Deep
- Who are you missing at this table today, and what would you tell them?
- What is something you are proud of yourself for this year?
- What do you hope this family is like ten years from now?
- What is one thing you wish this family talked about more?
- Is there something you want to make right with someone here?
- When this year did you feel truly cared for?
- What do you want the next generation of this family to know about us?
- What have you been carrying this year that you want to set down?
- What does home mean to you now?
- Go around the table: say one thing you love about the person on your left.
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