3Lunches is new format created to make it easy to for people to share knowledge and experience…and to help one another in the process. Simply, 3Lunches is friend-to-friend coaching over lunch. Need help looking for a job, starting a business or figuring out a difficult relationship? Ask a friend with experience in that area to coach you through it. Make your first lunch date and get ready for some high stakes problem solving; two people in a room wrestling to come up with some good ideas.

Whether you’re the Coach, the one being coached (the Coachee), or you have embarked on a Collaborative Coaching process, with 3Lunches, you and a friend or acquaintance are briefly entwined in a clearly defined, short-term process to reach a goal. You have exactly three lunches to begin to solve your problems or start a new venture—to listen, to engage, to learn—and to take the steps that will lead you on a path toward personal success.

3Lunches is a generosity-inspired movement to help those in need of inspiration. The people in our life aren’t simply networking opportunities; they are relationships that are potentially generative and transformative. The friend-to-friend coaching outlined in 3Lunches encourages relationships patterned on the ethic of mutual cooperation and responsibility. It’s lending a hand, receiving help, and creating an excuse to kick around a few ideas just to see what might grow out of the experience.

The mission of 3Lunches is to get people to engage with one another over lunch, and to spread the idea and the format as a means to give and get needed help and information.

Through a book, this blog, our Facebook Fan page page http://tinyurl.com/kw97bm and on Twitter, we hope to build a community of people actively coaching and being coached, which will strengthen the ties between us and support a sustainable approach to life during trying times.

We invite you to join us. Take a creative meeting with a friend, get down to business, enjoy your lunch…and watch the magic happen.