Maison Eleven Circle — a curated community for women in Switzerland

The croissant is the point — and yes, it is included. We meet on a Sunday morning at a lovely café, order our coffee and settle in for the kind of morning you do not need to rush. Come for the croissant, stay for the conversation. Some weeks it is a long chat with someone new, some weeks it is simply a beautiful table, good coffee and a few hours that feel like they belong to you.

Cinema Social starts before the opening credits. We meet first for drinks, dinner or whatever feels right that evening, so there is actually time to get to know each other before we take our seats. Then we watch the film together. No pressure to stay out afterwards, no forced discussion when everyone is ready for bed — just good company, a shared film and a night that feels like more than simply going to the cinema alone.

Bring the book you keep returning to, a passage you underlined twice, a poem you cannot stop thinking about or a few pages you simply want someone else to read. We meet in a café-bookstore kind of setting, bring our little pieces of reading life to the table and share them with each other. You might discover a new favourite book, hear a sentence that stays with you or realise that someone else has been moved by the exact same words.

There is always an exhibition you have saved, a museum you keep saying you will visit, or a part of the city you have somehow never explored. Culture Crush turns that “one day” into an actual plan. We go together, take our time, notice different things and talk about what stayed with us afterwards — because culture is usually more interesting when you have someone to experience it with.

A good dinner is rarely just about what is on the plate. The Guest List is about choosing somewhere worth dressing up for, sitting around a table with women you may not know yet and letting the evening unfold without rushing it. There is good food, a few new faces and the possibility that a conversation over dessert turns into a friendship you did not expect.

Everyone knows something, loves something or has gone down a very specific rabbit hole at some point. The Exchange gives one of us the table for a moment — to teach us something, share a recommendation, tell a story or introduce us to an obsession we might never have found ourselves. You bring what you know; everyone else brings curiosity.

Not every good plan needs a reason that sounds impressive. A late-night arcade, a concert, a spontaneous day trip, a summer rodel run, an amusement park or something none of us has tried before — Side Quest is where the random ideas live. Someone says, “Wait, should we actually do that?” and sometimes the answer is simply yes.