Brooke Allen

Won’t You Try a New Way of Dating

Stop Auditioning → Start Imagining Traditional dating often puts two people across a table asking silent questions: Do I like them? Do they like me? CoCreate Dating changes the question. Instead of making yourself or the other person the entire focus of the date, put something interesting between you: an idea, a project, a problem,Continue reading “Won’t You Try a New Way of Dating”

What If I’m Not Creative?

One of the first objections I hear to the idea of a CoCreate Date is: “But I’m not creative.” This usually means creativity has been defined too narrowly. You may be imagining creativity as painting a picture, writing a novel, composing music, or inventing something nobody has ever seen before. Those things are creative. ButContinue reading “What If I’m Not Creative?”

Online Dating: An Analysis

I’ve created this analysis of the problems with online dating with the help of my chatbot, Alex. A research-informed critique of contemporary online dating Online dating has unquestionably helped many people meet partners they would never otherwise have encountered. In the United States, about 30% of adults say they have used a dating site orContinue reading “Online Dating: An Analysis”

Let’s Make a Date to CoCreate CoCreateDate.com

CoCreateDate is still in the process of being invented. I’m looking for people of all ages, backgrounds, relationship statuses, and skill sets who are interested in helping shape what this idea becomes. That might mean: helping define the philosophy and language, designing or building the website, creating graphics, writing, music, video, or other media, researchingContinue reading “Let’s Make a Date to CoCreate CoCreateDate.com”

Share Your Thoughts and Experiences

We have ideas about what CoCreate Dating might become, but we do not want this to be a finished philosophy handed down from above. We want to learn from people who try it, question it, improve it, reject parts of it, and take it in directions we have not imagined. So please share what youContinue reading “Share Your Thoughts and Experiences”