#belonging — Public Fediverse posts

Are "belonging" programs for employees really beneficial, or just a way to corporatize belonging? Here's why I’m skeptical about this trend.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/08/increase-belonging

#belonging #EmployeeEngagement #OrganizationalCulture #HRTrends

You notice you're part of a harmony when another voice enters and everything rearranges.

Further reading: https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/your-self-care-action-items-f1c98bcedca6

#RMaurice #LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #Belonging #Practice

Every life carries something no one else can carry for it, yet none of us carries everything alone.

Further reading:
https://medium.com/collaborative-action-network/is-that-the-best-you-can-do-7f4781486e96

#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #UrsulaKLeGuin #Belonging #SharedHumanity

A body learning to walk without armour begins noticing things certainty tended to hurry past, until even the unfamiliar starts feeling less like a threat than an invitation to pay closer attention.

Further reading:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/a-waking-dream-43fbf5c25327

#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #MasanobuFukuoka #Belonging #LivingSystems

The kindest hands aren't the ones trying to stop time; they're the ones that know every living thing is only ever passing through them.

Further reading:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/a-waking-dream-43fbf5c25327

#LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #JoannaMacy #Belonging #Reckoning

A BetTER Day

Independence has its day,
when o’er the skies fireworks display,
and dependence, too, is good,
as every tender spirit should

learn the grace of being held,
when pride is hushed, and fear is quelled.
But methinks we need another name,
a deeper word, a wider frame.

It happens after we let one IN,
past the surface, past the skin,
past the guarded gates we keep,
past the places where hurt runs deep.

In the space before DEPEND,
we see the other as vital friend,
all as branches from one tree,
as the grains of sand receive the sea.

Then add three letters, soft but true,
TER arrives and makes it new.
Not just me and not just thee,
but something born between the three.

In-TER-dependence names the art
of hand in hand and heart to heart,
while I am I, and you are you,
something sacred binds us too.

Independence stands alone,
dependence leans on flesh and bone,
but interdependence humbly sings:
we rise by sharing roots and wings.

July 4, 2015 (updated June 2026)

Authoritarianism doesn’t begin only with bad leaders, dangerous ideologies, or manipulated information.

It also grows in emptiness: in closed youth centres, underfunded libraries, commercialised public squares, and feeds that replace conversation with performance.

https://associationredefine.substack.com/p/where-do-we-gather-the-geography?r=6l8ed8

#CivicIntelligence #Democracy #PublicSpace #Belonging #DigitalDemocracy #AIAndSociety #SocialInfrastructure #DemocraticResilience

Are "belonging" programs for employees really beneficial, or just a way to corporatize belonging? Here's why I’m skeptical about this trend.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/08/increase-belonging

#belonging #EmployeeEngagement #OrganizationalCulture #HRTrends

Some places make belonging feel effortless.

Everything is structured in a way that leaves no friction: paths are clear, rhythms are shared, nothing pushes you to the edges.

It looks natural from the outside.

But it’s not accidental.

It’s the result of systems designed well enough that people don’t have to fight to be part of them.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/the-civic-architecture-of-a-city-c69?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#Education #Belonging #PublicSystems #SocialInnovation #LearningBeyondSchool #CivicDesign #Democracy #YouthEngagement #SystemsThinking

Are "belonging" programs for employees really beneficial, or just a way to corporatize belonging? Here's why I’m skeptical about this trend.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/08/increase-belonging

#belonging #EmployeeEngagement #OrganizationalCulture #HRTrends

i am ukrainian https://sacs.zouluvo.com/i-am-ukrainian/

#iamukrainian #ukraine #nationality #heritage #identity #pride #culture #ukrainianflag #ukrainianroots #tradition #patriotism #ukrainianlanguage #ukrainianpeople #community #homeland #ethnicpride #ancestry #ukrainianspirit #ukrainianculture #nationalpride #identitystatement #culturalheritage #ukrainianheart #proudukrainian #ukrainianbackground #roots #belonging #ukrainianidentity #ukrainianflagcolors #ukrainianlove

Are "belonging" programs for employees really beneficial, or just a way to corporatize belonging? Here's why I’m skeptical about this trend.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/08/increase-belonging

#belonging #EmployeeEngagement #OrganizationalCulture #HRTrends

Are "belonging" programs for employees really beneficial, or just a way to corporatize belonging? Here's why I’m skeptical about this trend.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/08/increase-belonging

#belonging #EmployeeEngagement #OrganizationalCulture #HRTrends

Are "belonging" programs for employees really beneficial, or just a way to corporatize belonging? Here's why I’m skeptical about this trend.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/08/increase-belonging

#belonging #EmployeeEngagement #OrganizationalCulture #HRTrends

Are "belonging" programs for employees really beneficial, or just a way to corporatize belonging? Here's why I’m skeptical about this trend.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/08/increase-belonging

#belonging #EmployeeEngagement #OrganizationalCulture #HRTrends

Are "belonging" programs for employees really beneficial, or just a way to corporatize belonging? Here's why I’m skeptical about this trend.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/08/increase-belonging

#belonging #EmployeeEngagement #OrganizationalCulture #HRTrends

With #humanitarian #catastrophes unfolding on several continents,
the response of the #wealthy #world has been to 💥demand tighter borders and higher fences.

⚠️There is no blockbuster charity single raising money for starving refugees from the civil war raging in Sudan.
🆘And now, the cruel taunts come not just from schoolyard bullies and cranks on the political fringes, but from the lips of a man who stood on the presidential debate stage on Tuesday -- a former president who once again has a coin-flip shot at regaining the most powerful office in the world.

And so I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised by that lowest of moments at the debate,
when Donald Trump repeated a vile, baseless claim that Haitian immigrants were killing and eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio.

This allegation appears to stem from viral social media posts and statements at public meetings.
It was picked up by some of the most rancid figures at the #fringe of the #MAGA-verse,
then quickly hopscotched from there to a social media post by Trump’s running mate, JD #Vance,
and finally to the debate stage, sputtered by #Trump himself.

There is something particularly #insidious about this claim,
uttered at this time, from that stage.
#Food and #pets are, to use a Freudian term, highly overdetermined #symbols in our political life.

They are capable of receiving and holding a multiplicity of very potent meanings, transmitting deep messages about #identity and #belonging.

You can tell how powerful this type of slur is by how quickly and vociferously it has animated so many on the right.

Figures who flirt with the mainstream have eagerly jumped into the fray.

The conservative culture warrior #Christopher #Rufo has offered a $5,000 bounty for anyone who can find proof that a Haitian immigrant had in fact eaten a cat.

It is not hard to imagine how this could quickly escalate into #vigilante #violence against Haitians in America.

On Thursday, city officials in Springfield, most of whom have pushed back against the false allegations, said they had received #bomb #threats, prompting the evacuation of city buildings.

MAGA bigotry is far more #sinister and #dangerous than weird.

And disbelieving laughter could,
I fear, blind us to moments like this, when truly unacceptable lines are crossed

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/14/opinion/trump-debate-haitians-pets.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&ngrp=mnp&pvid=93CE287F-EE40-40AE-B1B3-90B0F13022C0

Are "belonging" programs for employees really beneficial, or just a way to corporatize belonging? Here's why I’m skeptical about this trend.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/08/increase-belonging

#belonging #EmployeeEngagement #OrganizationalCulture #HRTrends #post

Are "belonging" programs for employees really beneficial, or just a way to corporatize belonging? Here's why I’m skeptical about this trend.

#belonging #EmployeeEngagement #OrganizationalCulture #HRTrends

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/08/increase-belonging

Are "belonging" programs for employees really beneficial, or just a way to corporatize belonging? Here's why I’m skeptical about this trend.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/08/increase-belonging

#belonging #EmployeeEngagement #OrganizationalCulture #HRTrends #newpost

Are "belonging" programs for employees really beneficial, or just a way to corporatize belonging? Here's why I’m skeptical about this trend.

#belonging #EmployeeEngagement #OrganizationalCulture #HRTrends #newpost

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/08/increase-belonging

Are "belonging" programs for employees really beneficial, or just a way to corporatize belonging? Here's why I’m skeptical about this trend.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/08/increase-belonging

#newpost #belonging #EmployeeEngagement #OrganizationalCulture #HRTrends

Are "belonging" programs for employees really beneficial, or just a way to corporatize belonging? Here's why I’m skeptical about this trend.

#newpost #belonging #EmployeeEngagement #OrganizationalCulture #HRTrends

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/08/increase-belonging

Are "belonging" programs for employees really beneficial, or just a way to corporatize belonging? Here's why I’m skeptical about this trend.

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2024/08/increase-belonging

#belonging #EmployeeEngagement #OrganizationalCulture #HRTrends

@randahl

And I have learned something else today:

#FoxNews is not in the #news nor in the #information businesses,
it chiefly sells a sense of #belonging through #Infotainment ("performative belief) in a seemingly increasingly hostile environment.

Just like #MegaChurches (could be read as #MAGAChurches as well 😉)

https://academic.oup.com/book/4827?login=false

#StudentRetention: Fostering Peer Relationships Through a Brief Experimental Intervention [the Closeness-Induction task which involves pairing up students to interview each other with a set of increasingly personal questions]
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344790140_Student_Retention_Fostering_Peer_Relationships_Through_a_Brief_Experimental_Intervention
See also: Implementing the Fast Friends Procedure to Build Camaraderie in a Remote Synchronous #Teaching Setting
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00986283211065746
#StudentSuccess #CollegeSuccess #Belonging #Retention

A friend of mine tagged me on a recent #LinkedIn post about White-identifying #EDI practitioners not doing enough as opposed to us who are from the #GlobalMajority. We have been doing this work for a while now and it never seems to be enough to #organizational leaders. Something has to give. If you haven't seen the post, here it is.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/saleha-khan-5b12263_dei-gaslighting-toxicpositivity-activity-7009226295511322624-tYdP

#DEI #DEIB #equity #inclusion #justice #belonging #inclusiveleadership #leadership #culturalintelligence #transformationalleadership