Our Programs Help You Build Connection
We offer a range of programs to meet your needs, including:
The 5 Friends Membership for adults who want to strengthen their connection skills and create deeper, closer, more fulfilling relationships. The memberships includes live instruction, group coaching, and a private community (all offered virtually).
Talks, workshops and team-building experiences that highlight why connection matters, provide actionable strategies to build it, and help participants make genuine connections.
ProjectConnect facilitator certification so that you can lead groups that build connection within your college, workplace, or community.
Talks, Workshops, and Team-Building Experiences
Want a quick introduction to why connection matters and some actionable strategies you can implement immediately? Invite ProjectConnect Founder, Jessica Gifford, to give a fun, engaging talk or workshop (samples titles below). Or, consider investing a little more time in a retreat, “day of connection,” or multi-session team-building program to build meaningful relationships that create lasting change.
Sample College Talks
One of the most important things you can do to address the student mental health crisis is to help students connect. Good relationships reduce depression, anxiety, and suicide.
Invite Founder, Jessica Gifford, to give an engaging and actionable talk or workshop, such as:
The Secret to Making Friends in College
Solving the Loneliness Crisis
Friends with Benefits (but not the kind you think).
Sample Employee Talks.
Want to reduce turnover and improve workplace culture? Helping employees build positive relationships is a high impact/low cost strategy.
Invite ProjectConnect Founder, Jessica Gifford, to give a talk or workshop with actionable tools you can implement immediately. For example:
Creating a culture of connection in the workplace
Reduce turnover by building relationships.
Why we need to use the f-word (friendship) more at work.
Sample Team-building Programs.
Skip the icebreakers, escape rooms, and ropes courses. Yes, these can be fun, but they rarely result in lasting connections. What really builds a strong team is the opportunity to learn about each other as human beings.
Invite us to build meaningful relationships at a retreat, run a ProjectConnect group for your team, or provide connection coaching to strengthen your team’s interpersonal skills.
“This was AMAZING! It’s been a very long time since I have seen people in our community so engaged with a presenter and each other. Jessica presented information in such a practical and funny way. You could feel the incredible energy in the room. She brought out the best in us as a community.”
Become a ProjectConnect Facilitator.
If you want to create a culture of connection in your workplace, on your campus, or in your community, consider becoming a certified ProjectConnect group facilitator. This gives you a proven step-by-step roadmap for creating connection in small groups. ProjectConnect facilitators help their group members get to know each other, have deeper conversations, and build positive relationships over the course of 6 sessions.
Check out the Benefits of certification!
- Prepares you to facilitate ProjectConnect groups and build connection with people in your organization or community.
- Certification lasts a lifetime and can be used anywhere connection is needed (in your workplace, school, college, senior center, church, etc.). No re-certification needed.
- Facilitators have lifetime access to the ProjectConnect Facilitators' Resource HUB, which includes:
- Instructions to successfully launch groups
- The Facilitator’s Guide with step-by-step session outlines
- Editable templates for advertising ProjectConnect and recruiting participants
- Editable program evaluation forms and optional assessment scales
- For colleges: an editable peer facilitator position description and application form
- Physical Materials (Connection Cards with the conversation prompts used in groups, and Appreciation Stationery, used in the mini connection project in session 4).
- Hosting a training includes 10 decks of Connection Cards and 10 boxes of Appreciation Stationery.
- Attending a training includes 1 deck of Connection Cards and 1 box of Appreciation Stationery per participant.
- Membership in the private ProjectConnect listserv to post questions and share information with other facilitators.
- Invitation to participate in quarterly ProjectConnect facilitators' Zooms with the Founder to ask questions, exchange information, and discuss topics related to successful implementation
- Discounted rate for all future trainings. You may use the group rate to attend a training or take 25% off to host a training.
- License to use the ProjectConnect name and logo to promote the program within your organization.
3 Steps to building connection.
1
Identify Facilitators!
Identify who will facilitate ProjectConnect groups. Facilitators can employees or college/graduate students. Designate a point person (or two) to oversee the program.
2
Get Certified!
Host a training specifically for your organization/group. Or, attend a virtual Facilitator Certification Training (offered every January and August.) Once certified, facilitators can lead groups year after year.
3
Create Connection!
Schedule groups, enroll participants, and launch! Participants get to know each other and develop stronger relationships over the course of 6 sessions. Repeat step 3 indefinitely.
Options for becoming certified
Attend a Facilitator Certification Training
Register individuals to attend a live Zoom certification course with participants from schools, colleges, and organizations around the country.
Check dates of the next training and/or register HERE.
Host a Facilitator Certification Training
Host a training for 4-16 participants to become certified ProjectConnect facilitators. This 5-hour training is scheduled at your convenience, can be offered virtually or in-person, and will help build your team. Schedule a conversation to decide if this is right for you HERE.