Communities are gardens that need tending.
People joined your community for a reason - they have a shared passion, interest and desire that calls them to connect.
However, people only become active in your community and invite others to join if there is a climate of empathy, trust and connection, that allows rich and intimate relationships to form. This doesn't happen automatically - it must be cultivated. |
What is a community?A community is a group of people with a shared interest and location. While online platforms and tools are helpful, actual communities are comprised of people who live, work, pray and collaborate in person. They include neighborhood associations, civic organizations, spiritual communities and businesses. |
The Old Way of tending community doesn't work.
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How the New Way works:
Your community learns powerful skills
in small, diverse groups over time.
Your community is sorted into groups of
4 diverse people, where they have a
1-hour conversation,
over 5 sessions.
Members are placed into groups of 4 people in your community who are as diverse as possible.
Members have 5 peer-facilitated conversations, using a discussion guide and rotating peer facilitators, to learn new skills and gain a deeper understanding of each other. The results are that they make new diverse friends, experience empathy, trust and solidarity, and discover new ways to live their purpose in their lives, career and community. After the initial learning journey, the learning continues - each quarter your community decides which learning journeys to experience together. |
The Results of the New Way
Small, diverse learning cohorts transforms hearts + minds, connects us to our purpose + values, and inspires action.
RESPECT
percent experience respect from their diverse peers
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EMPATHY
percent experience empathy from their diverse peers
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Results from a landmark 2020 ion study on small diverse group conversations, n=103.
Who is Unity Lab for?
Unity Lab serves the people, communities and organizations in the United States
who want to create greater empathy, trust and belonging,
collaborate and thrive together.
who want to create greater empathy, trust and belonging,
collaborate and thrive together.
Unity Lab is for you if:
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Unity Lab is NOT for you if:
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