Designed For Connection
What you needed to learn in school and life about emotions and relationship dynamics. But you didn’t.
What is Designed For Connection and why do we need it?
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Designed For Connection is a step-by-step roadmap for how to build - and repair! - meaningful connection. While navigating the rocky terrain of emotions, social identity and other differences, and life’s inevitable stress and uncertainty.
What you needed to learn in school and life. But you didn’t.
“It takes focus but I see the difference this approach makes. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. There’s no limit. This is life-changing.”
- Fred, Hardware Engineer, Alphabet Company
What are the Benefits of Designed For Connection?
Emotional resilience and meaningful connection at multiple levels of your life.
I spent 30 years seeking teachers and experiences in attempt to piece together essential life and relationship skills I didn’t learn in school or college.
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What I learned on my journey that are foundational elements of Designed For Connection.
⧫ How to transform unconscious barriers like inner critic, shame, self-doubt, to be comfortable in your own skin, more confident, connected.
⧫ How to heal from pain and traumatic experiences. And thrive!
⧫ How to regulate emotions and be more grounded in moments of stress and discomfort
⧫ How to express emotions in ways that build meaningful connection with others.
⧫ How to listen and validate another person’s experience to build meaningful connection.
⧫ How to repair and/or end connection with intention, care, and self-worth.
⧫ How to anchor in interconnection with shared humanity and the natural world to awaken resource and resilience.
Basic Steps For Connecting
Neuroscience, Systems Awareness, Social Context
KNOWLEDGE
⧫ Understand how the brain and nervous system help build meaningful connection - and derail you from it.
SELF-AWARENESS
⧫ Understand how your own social context shapes connection and disconnection within yourself and relationships.
PRACTICE & BEHAVIOR
⧫ Develop behaviors that build meaningful connection within yourself and with others through individual & one-on-one practices.
FEEDBACK
⧫ Seek feedback about whether what you’re doing and saying is having the impact you hope for.
SELF-REFLECTION
⧫ Reflect on the feedback and choose next steps for building meaningful connection.
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In Erica's class, I learned tools and resources to take safe risks and bring emotions and vulnerability into daily interactions.
This truly transformed how I am able to approach even the most challenging transitions in my life, both the personal and professional.
- My-Thuan, Senior Strategy Manager, Genentech
“I feel more comfortable with honest conversations. I am able to voice what bothers me, and this allows us to work through issues in a clear, transparent, open way.”
- Samantha, Haas MBA graduate
In just two weeks I am already experiencing impacts. I learned that my interpretation of others' words can be completely incorrect.
So I’ve started to give others a benefit of the doubt and am a lot calmer and less reactive when on the receiving end of comments that sound negative. This has been especially helpful while confined together in COVID-19 lockdown.
- Deborah Tan, Haas MBA student
