5-Day Pathway
Build a Life of Belonging
Take a meaningful step to heal the divisiveness in the world.
Research shows that the need for belonging rivals that of food and shelter1, and yet our world is becoming more divisive and lonely, not less so. How can anyone thrive when our countries, our communities, and even our families promote an us versus them mentality?
Developing a sense of belonging — the feeling that we are seen, valued, and accepted for who we are — offers a path forward. It doesn’t just make for a happier life, it makes for a healthier one.
In this challenging time, let’s create a lifeline for ourselves and one another.
This 5-day, self-paced journey offers:
Daily practices to strengthen your connection with yourself and others
Guidance and prompts for creating belonging in everyday life
Potential benefits including decreased loneliness and increased joy
Supporting resources and research to enhance learning
Connection with others around the world who are also on the path
Register Today for Build a Life of Belonging!
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Pathway Overview
Delivered as a 5-day series of emails, our Pathways provide guidance, inspiration, and practices to help you cultivate a more grateful life. They are self-paced and yours to keep. Each day includes an introduction, inspiring resources, daily practice, reflection prompts, and supporting research.
Building a life of belonging depends on cultivating a home within — being both courageous and vulnerable enough to stand in your values and to trust that you are enough, just as you are. When you belong first to yourself, you’re more able to create a sense of belonging with others.
When you feel seen, valued, and respected for who you are, you satisfy the deeply human need to belong. One tangible way to help build a life of belonging is to give renewed time and attention to the existing relationships in your life. Even small gestures of kindness, listening, and presence can enhance your connection to others and contribute to an experience of belonging for you and those around you.
“Othering” involves seeing someone — or a whole group — as inferior or somehow less than. It’s painful at the individual level and devastating at the societal level. Whether you’ve been “othered” by someone, witnessed its impact, or perpetuated it (even unknowingly), there’s opportunity to counter its harm. By making it a practice to see the humanity in every person, regardless of real or perceived differences, you can contribute to building a life of belonging.
To be alive is to be in an essential, reciprocal relationship with the natural world. Regardless of where you live, human life is an embodied existence that is utterly dependent upon the forests and rivers, the soil and bees. When you attune to all the ways you are connected to the natural world, you receive not only its sustenance and beauty, but the reminder that you belong in this ecosystem of the earth. You are provided for. You are home.
There are certain lived experiences that have the power to awaken your sense of belonging — communal events that evoke an acute awareness of our shared humanity and that sometimes have a sacred quality. When you seek, notice, and create such experiences as part of daily life, you not only feel a greater sense of joy and meaning, you’re better positioned — compelled, even — to make your unique contribution to building a world where everyone belongs.
1 Social Isolation and Loneliness – WHO Social Determinants of Health