After overcoming some initial cultural reluctance, I decided to sign up. And can I tell you something? It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.I started to gain back confidence and assertiveness with the first crazy homework...after the exercise came the theory in class around frames (my frame/reality versus other’s people’s frame). It all made so much sense!

Each session felt empowering, as Eric coached me on conversational agility, body language, and touch. Immediately, I was able to connect with people on a social level. Complete strangers from coffee shops and bookstores invited me to their parties and social events. The social dynamic of my existing relationships expanded too. I felt like a member of a community again, but my community was not limited to political thinkers.

“Before I felt bad about saying no to people,” says Jaunty graduate Sinan Mouline. “Now I feel more comfortable doing it. Also I can ask for what I want. If the other person can do it, great. If not, okay.”

The material is very well taught and the instructors are amazing. I highly recommend jaunty for gaining advanced social skills and intelligence of any context be it professional, romantic, or just straight up social. I'm a Stanford student and found it as rigorous, well taught, and beneficial as my social psychology and improv acting classes I've attended at Stanford prior.

Jaunty gave me the formula for how to communicate with others,” Sunny says. “Now whatever social situation I’m in, I know I’m going to be generally successful using this formula.”

I think almost anyone would benefit from Jaunty. Particularly, I look at the people I work with, the software engineers. I think everyone should go to Burning Man once, and take Jaunty classes.

I appreciated the way Jaunty teaches social skills by putting it all in different steps. It's very structured. You know why you are doing something in the interaction, then you do it better; you improve.

“Public speaking used to make me really nervous,” Jaunty graduate Ashmi Pathela says. She was good at sounding confident, but had to work to hide her nervousness during any presentation.

I feel like my personal anxiety has definitely gone down a lot since Jaunty. It’s kind of amazing how it happened. For me the goal was to talk to a few people at a party. Not to be the life of the party because I’m not that person. The thing with Jaunty is it’s pretty simple. Your mindset grows along with the skills. You really do become a person who everyone wants to talk to.

Sometimes you just have to break somebody’s robotic routine and give them a special experience that’s become rarer in the digital age: a conversation with a stranger.

Jaunty teaches you confidence but it also teaches you to love yourself...This could easily be a class for public speaking and leadership. It’s a class to help you live the life you want to lead.

I learned formulas for how to attract people through magnetic conversations and behavior. I learned about conversational agility, humor structures, and other really useful social intelligence techniques.

“I think no matter where someone is on the social anxiety or shyness scale, they’d get a lot of benefit with Jaunty, whether it’s the six-week course or a one-on-one,” Paula says. “I was amazed by what a huge change it’s made.”

“I’m glad I got to take a class with a range of people and not just business people.” In college, Daniel pitched multiple business ideas that were all shot down by his peers and executives. He got comfortable with rejection and learning to manage social anxiety. At Jaunty, he says, “One of the bigger skills I’ve learned is how to make other people feel more comfortable when they’re uncomfortable

I wanted to get past the small talk in conversations and be able to build deeper connections. Other people in my class wanted to get more clients at a business meeting, and other people want to talk with a potential date, we all succeeded!

It’s a funny little secret among developers that while the workshops are incredibly informative, they’re not actually the real conference. The friendship making, deals, and networking actually happen off-site, during meet-ups, mixers, and of course, the parties.