We're Living in an Age of
Manufactured Disconnection

When we should be more connected than ever, we're more distant and lonely than we've ever been. This is affecting us at home, in our communities, and at work.

Conscious Ground helps people, groups, and organizations understand our crisis of disconnection so we can reconnect with others, collaborate towards positive change in the world, and live healthier lives through it all.

Our Complete Topic Library

Each topic can be delivered as a keynote, workshop, or multi-session training program tailored to your organization's needs.

Connection Topics

Building authentic relationships in an age of manufactured disconnection.

Understanding Manufactured Disconnection

Explore how our current systems, from social media algorithms to political polarization, are designed to keep us separated. Learn to identify these patterns and develop strategies to build genuine connection despite them, leading to increased connection, creativity, and action.

Social Health: Connection for Impact and Wellness

Discover why social health (the amount and quality of our relationships in life) matters as much as physical and mental health. Learn the devastating impacts of living in a disconnected world as well as practices you can implement to feel better and make a positive impact at home, work, and beyond.

Connecting Through Conflict: Become an Expert at  Navigating Difficult Conversations

This is a multi-part topic that can be provide in whole, or in individual modules.
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Why are we not given more opportunities to practice communication and connection when we spend most of our time in life speaking with other people? This topic offers foundations for modern communication and practices that will make noticeable impact in yourself and others.
Module 1: Preparing for Difficult Conversations - Understand the forces keeping us divided. Connect with yourself and what is important to you as a way to connect with others. Know your boundaries and how you'll exit when needed.
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Module 2: Setting the Stage - Identify when conflict is arising and lay the groundwork for staying connected through tension.
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Module 3: Navigating Difficult Conversations - Skills and practices to navigate the tension with more awareness and confidence.
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Module 4: Reflection & Returning - Review and reflect. Using learnings to grow and reconnect and maintain connection and continue improving over time.
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Conscious Connection: Communication Skills for the Modern Age

This is a multi-part topic that can be provide in whole, or in individual modules.
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Why are we not given more opportunities to practice communication and connection when we spend most of our time in life speaking with other people? This topic offers foundations for modern communication and practices that will make noticeable impact in yourself and others.
Module 1: Systems Awareness - Understand what divides us and where. Bringing new awareness to conversations.
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Module 2: Embodied Awareness - Foundations for communication. Understanding ourselves and reactions. Using the body as a guide for better navigating conversations.
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Module 3: Authenticity - Understanding your own truth and being able to speak it, even in difficult situations.
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Module 4: Curiosity - Shed outdated ways of speaking with others. Learn to understand and form dialogue rather than to correcting or shutting down conversations.
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Module 5: Modern Communication Tools that Work - Simple practices that will change how you speak with anyone.
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Module 6: Navigating Conflict and Difference - Reframing conflict as an opportunity. De-escalation techniques. Finding courage and practicing skills to navigate conflict.
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Module 7: Applying and Integrating Skills - How to use these skills anywhere in life. When to engage vs. protecting yourself. How to respectfully disconnect.
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Module 8: Leadership and Ripple Effect - How your own communication creates positive shifts. Creating a plan for change in your own sphere of influence.

Read to Inspire: Speed Reading for Connection

Speed reading isn't just about reading faster. It's about transforming how you engage with ideas, unlock the feeling of inspiration, and connect with others. In the age of AI, your ability to actively engage with information, create new ideas, and share insights with others is your greatest edge. This course will help you double your reading speed while sparking the inspiration that fuels, creative breakthroughs, meaningful conversations, and success at work and home.

Deepening Identity: Understanding How Identity is Used to Divide Rather than Connect

Examine the dynamic nature of identity and its profound impact on how we perceive ourselves and relate to others. Understanding identity, beyond labels and roles, enables greater self-acceptance, resilience, and inspiration, while also fostering inclusivity and connection within communities and relationships. Here we look to reverse the damaging effects of identity being used as a way to divide rather than connect.

How to Connect with Yourself

We can't connect with others if we aren't first connected with ourselves. In this topic we review systems that keep us disconnected from our feelings, desires, and thoughts. We offer practical steps to reconnect with yourself, follow your own intuition, and form your own thoughts and opinions outside of group think. From there, we provide steps to use this new awareness for connecting with others.

Navigating Respectful Disconnection: Maintaining Boundaries While Preserving Connection

Explore strategies for gracefully disengaging from relationships or interactions that no longer support you, while ensuring the possibility for positive reconnection remains open.

Leadership Topics

Developing conscious leadership skills for use at home, at work, and in the world.

Leadership in the Age of AI

This is a multi-part topic that can be provide in whole, or in individual modules.
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Our comprehensive program for preparing leaders when AI is reshaping every industry.
Module 1: Introductions - Why human skills are needed more than ever in the age of artificial intellience.
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Module 2: What are "Human Skills"? - Defining skills and traits we can all practice that will be essential for the future of work.
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Module 3: Develop & Practice - How to spark inspiration, creativity that drives colllaboration and innovation.
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Module 4: Ethics & Collaboration - Responsible AI leadership and building teams that thrive with technology, not be consumed or ovewhelmed by it.

Modern Leadership for 2026 and Beyond

Learn essential leadership skills needed more than ever in our times of disconnection, loneliness, and lack of inspiration. Gain skills in how to inspire others, instill creativity, and ignite innovation in the modern age. This is leadership for relationships and connection that can be used in any walk of life.

Authenticity at Work

Learn one of the essential leadership traits for building trust and inspiring collaboration. Understand barriers to being authentic in the workplace and how to practice being more real, which can build deeper meaning in the self and with groups and teams.

Leading with Responsibility: Transform Collaboration by Removing Blame

Blame is pervasive in our society and at work. When things go wrong, our common reaction is to find blame in others, or in ourselves. Learn the long lasting effects of blame and how to shift into a culture of responsibility, leading to improved team connection, creativity, and success.

Tiny Experiments: How to Drive Inspiration and Action Through Leading Like a Scientist

Based on the book Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff, this session helps students consider the benefits of experimental thinking over linear thinking. We provide templates and practices for using tiny experiments in area of your life to grow and learn like a scientist, where failures are looked at as data points to inform the next experiment. 

Solidarity Topics

Building authentic relationships in an age of manufactured disconnection.

What is Solidarity and Why is It Important?

We give a brief history of solidarity, solidarity movements of the past, what modern solidarity looks like, how important it is, and how to practice it.

Conscious Collaboration

We examine how intentional, mindful collaboration transforms teamwork by fostering psychological safety, mutual respect, and a shared sense of purpose. Explore practical approaches for cultivating environments where every voice is valued, collective intelligence thrives, and groups achieve more together than alone.

Building Trust: The Key to Strong Friendships and Groups

Find out easy ways to build trust with your friends, classmates, teammates so everyone feels safe to share ideas, take risks, and work together to get things done.

Unlocking Flow States and the “Zone of Genius”: Practical Approaches for Personal and Group Excellence

We identify the key components of achieving flow and operating within your zone of genius, with actionable steps to access these optimal states of creation and collaboration with others.
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