We believe human connection helps individuals, communities and organisations to thrive and is a powerful vehicle for driving positive change.
The importance of connection
Our
vision
A more empathic, equal, inclusive & sustainable world in which people & planet thrive.
Our
mission
To
connect and empower people and communities to
drive positive human-centred change.
Our
approach
We create engagement solutions that provoke human connection and cultivate understanding and empathy, resulting in more resilient communities and organisations and people working and living better together.
We
offer:
Community & employee
engagement interventions that
enable people to connect meaningfully around topics that matter to
the community or organisation and
provide an opportunity to shape a positive culture.
Facilitated events &
workshops
that provoke understanding and empathy in organisations and
communities.
Please
scroll down to find out more.
Community & employee engagement
Whether
we work with small teams or bigger groups, our bespoke engagement
interventions enable people to connect meaningfully around topics
that matter to the community or organisation. At
the same time, they are an opportunity to positively shape your
organisational or community’s culture.
The
approaches we use aim to build connection between people and harness
the diversity of groups
or teams.
The activities are purposefully designed to give people the
opportunity to be and feel heard, increase their relatedness with
each other and grow their sense of belonging.
Our
interventions can be used for general engagement purposes e.g.
team-building/ development or to provoke specific values in your
community or organisation.
Our
value driven and participative
engagement
interventions can
also be used to enable people
to connect meaningfully around topics that support your aims for a
wider change
initiative
or programme.
The
interventions are designed to
create opportunities for joint learning journeys and enable people to
be involved in the design of the change outcomes and process.
The
approaches we use, can
help you create a strong foundation for the change journey ahead by:
helping people create positive images of the future to guide current behaviour and identify what success looks like
facilitating an appreciative strength review to help design and deliver future success
helping people create a stake in the change process and outcomes and foster long term buy-in and commitment
engaging people fully in the change, with head (reason), heart (emotion) and hands (practice/ enactment)
enabling you to re-design the social architecture of your organisation or community around the values that matter and bring your new narrative to life.
Our events and workshops aim to provoke understanding and empathy in organisations and communities.
Amplify Connection events
For centuries we have been sharing stories around campfires: stories full of insight, teaching us how to listen and enabling us to engage more deeply and meaningfully with others.
During
our Amplify Connection events we do just that: we come together and
sit around the 360Stories
board game, share
stories and connect. The 360Stories
board game
was developed in the Netherlands and is all about sharing personal
stories. It is designed to foster insight into the lives of others
and encourage more empathy and compassion.
The setting for our events can range from a cafe to a community venue or even a festival. The atmosphere can be set by providing refreshments and live music. The events can be run for specific groups (e.g. teams or residents) or as an open ticketed event.
360Stories cafe in the Netherlands, www.360stories.one/en
Amplify Connection workshops
In
our workshops, we complement the opportunity for people to share
personal stories with facilitated conversations, enabling people to
jointly explore themes like trust, belonging, empathy and diversity
etc. or a topic of your choice.
These conversations provide a joint learning experience on the importance of human connection and stories in growing these positive values in our places of work and community.
Our events & workshops:
facilitate positive meaningful contact and help develop empathetic listening skills
enable insight into the beliefs and assumptions of others and ourselves, increasing our perspective taking. And opening us up to the possibility of change.
help build relatedness with the people we work and live with. This in turn links with our individual and joint sense of belonging and well-being, the resilience of the communities we live in and the way we perform in the organisations we work in.
Email us on connect@amplify-connection.com to organise an event or workshop.
employee engagement or team building with the aim of growing relatedness and trust in the team or organisation
community or stakeholder engagement or consultation
workshops aimed at creating a shared vision, a supportive environment and an appreciative plan of action for collaboration
sessions aimed at ‘reframing’ a social or organisational problem you want to tackle
I would also love to hear from individuals and collectives about opportunities for collaboration on using human connection and stories to create social change.
