Connect ED.
Building structures of belonging with stories.
Tools for productive connections in teams, organizations and communities.
Tools for productive connections in teams, organizations and communities.
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I got to talk about building belonging with stories at this year's VanTalks. Here's the video.
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I was invited to be on Epik Project's Masculine Wilderness Podcast and got to share some of my story and theory about how sharing stories builds belonging that heals people and culture. Here's the video.
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Find out what Connect ED can do for you, your organization, and your community.
Belonging is the most fundamental human need.
We build belonging out of our shared stories.
Connect ED is your guide to increased belonging, transformational story sharing, and a dynamic set of tools to catalyze health and productivity.
Belonging is a structure we build with our shared stories. It includes three main components:
We build belonging out of our shared stories.
Connect ED is your guide to increased belonging, transformational story sharing, and a dynamic set of tools to catalyze health and productivity.
Belonging is a structure we build with our shared stories. It includes three main components:
- Identity - Each of us is a unique character with a core and unchangeable essence.
- Output - our identities offer something that is unique, valuable, and irreplaceable.
- Input - our health and capacity requires input from others—their output.
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The KNOTS Framework
Connect ED's mission is to educate, encourage, and connect individuals, teams, organizations, and communities who want to play a productive role in their network. We believe in a shared narrative in which every one of us is a character with an important role to play. All of us are storytellers. When we learn how to share our stories in ways that contribute to belonging, our teams, organizations, and communities are healthier, more equitable, and more able to grow. Each of us has a powerful role to play. K.N.O.T.S. helps clarify that role: K now your story N otice the larger story O ffer what you have T ake what you need S hare the new story |
OPEN People
We are already embedded in networks of relationships that are ready to be transformed into generative agents that build interdependent structures of belonging that turn on our immune system to heal us, catalyze growth and productivity, awaken untapped capacities, and revolutionize the way we believe, act, and feel in the world. Those ready networks, the places where we are most likely to succeed in our efforts to build belonging, are with our O.P.E.N. people: O ften (we already gather often) P ositive (our interactions are positive) E nduring (connections are stable and/or predictable) N ear (we live, work, or play in close proximity) Not all these conditions must be present. Some may be high and compensate for those that are limited. |
The story - it's always, always about the story...
Connect ED is a regional organization operating in the realm of community psychology, that offers coaching, training, program development, and evaluation focused on adaptive response, upstream prevention, and promotion of mental, emotional, and behavioral health in individuals, small groups, teams, organizations, communities, and policies. In person and online, Connect ED interactions are collaborative, participatory, and empowering for stakeholders with a strong emphasis on empirical evidence in solution making. Informed by a myriad of intersecting sciences including neuroscience, epigenetics, ACEs, resilience, positive psychology, social network theory, complexity, self-organizing systems, and non-duality science, Connect ED guides the collaborative efforts of diverse participants in discovering a generative, shared story that contains and strengthens their true, interdependent identities.
If you would like to sign up for "Connect-Able", a newsletter focused on building belonging with stories, SIGN UP HERE.
Connect ED is a regional organization operating in the realm of community psychology, that offers coaching, training, program development, and evaluation focused on adaptive response, upstream prevention, and promotion of mental, emotional, and behavioral health in individuals, small groups, teams, organizations, communities, and policies. In person and online, Connect ED interactions are collaborative, participatory, and empowering for stakeholders with a strong emphasis on empirical evidence in solution making. Informed by a myriad of intersecting sciences including neuroscience, epigenetics, ACEs, resilience, positive psychology, social network theory, complexity, self-organizing systems, and non-duality science, Connect ED guides the collaborative efforts of diverse participants in discovering a generative, shared story that contains and strengthens their true, interdependent identities.
If you would like to sign up for "Connect-Able", a newsletter focused on building belonging with stories, SIGN UP HERE.
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