Belonging Workshops for Your People
Do your people struggle with loneliness? Do they say they want more connection, but still hesitate to participate and engage? What would it be like if they really knew, trusted, and collaborated with one another? What could you create together?
This five-part workshop series will help open an important dialogue in your community about connection and belonging, and will give your people the mindset, skills and opportunities they need to build strong, meaningful relationships with each other.
Workshop Descriptions
While the first workshop can be delivered as a standalone experience, it’s a lot more powerful when you follow up with more opportunities to learn and practice together.
1) Strengthening the Web of Belonging - This introductory workshop gets your people thinking about what belonging means and why it matters to them, informed by the group’s answers on a pre-workshop questionnaire. We also talk about how relationships in a community are created, damaged, and repaired, and what each person’s responsibility is — and isn’t — in each interaction.
2) Getting to Know Each Other - This workshop reinforces that it is our uniqueness (not our sameness) that makes us valuable, and that sharing ourselves with others is a gift. It gives your people a safe place to practice asking, sharing, and learning about each other in ways that are more meaningful than most social conversations.
3) Asking for Help - This workshop highlights the importance of reciprocity in relationships, while acknowledging that most people have a lot of trouble asking for, receiving, offering, and responding to request for help. Your people will learn and practice how to have these conversations in ways that lead to win-win exchanges.
4) Recognition & Appreciation - This workshop teaches the power of gratitude and acknowledgement, and also names the challenges that can make it feel awkward, anxiety-provoking, or unimportant. The group will get to talk about people who have made an important difference for them, and craft messages of appreciation that they are excited to deliver.
5) Celebrate & Ideate - This final workshop in the series gives your people a chance to reflect on what they’ve learned, and what they are excited to do next as a community. Use this opportunity to build on the momentum that’s been created and keep it going well beyond this workshop series.
A Note on My Role
I’m not a trainer who just comes in, delivers a program, and leaves.
I’m more like a collaborative thought partner who is passionate about building strong cultures and communities — and has some great tools and skills to help.
The work I love most is getting to know you, the leader, and designing experiences that you are as excited about as I am.
Let me be your trusted partner in building a community that inspires and motivates you every day!