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Welcome To The HIVE!
Our Values

embody the

ethos of the beehive…

enthusiastic collaboration

continual communication

flexibility - transformation

respect - empathy

belonging

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Our VISION

To reveal a broader sense of community, defined simply by being human, by creating a spirit of belonging and shared connection, within and across communities.

Our MISSION
  • To build a "human pollinator pathway" across communities by partnering with Community-driven organizations to host an on-going series of Pollinator Gatherings and HIVE Conversations that provide opportunities for people to engage and connect - fueled by the arts, dialogue & collaborative ideas.
     

  • To provide robust professional development workshops to our partners on how to develop deep community understanding and how to transform the way they serve in response.

Vision
Creating a Human Pollinator Pathway
Two ways...
I. Pollinator Gatherings
for communities

Core to The HIVE's Mission is to foster and facilitate deep dialogue between individuals, within and across communities, around themes of simply being human, to create connection and a sense of belonging, opening people up to each other to ideate on ways we can build stronger community for all. All of our events are fueled by the arts, which open people up, and involve facilitated dialogue among diverse audiences and participants around meaningful human-centered themes.  

Community-Engaging Arts Immersions
Dialogue Fueled
By The Arts

Arts-Driven Performances and Dialogue with Community & Professionals on-Stage centered on a meaningful theme around "Being Human" followed by a facilitated dialogue with the audience

  • Storyshares

  • Musicshares/LID Sessions

  • Poetry Slams

  • Etc.

HIVE
Conversations

Small Group
Facilitated Dialogue

Small Group Sharing among Individuals from communities

  • A single facilitated conversation

  • Over a shared meal

  • Centered around themes of "Being Human"

  • Based on personal experience

Cross-Pollination
Idea Swarms

Large Group
Cross Community Ideation

Large Group "Ideation" where participants of The HIVE Conversations across communities gather to

  • Compare insights and

  • Generate/develop ideas for building better community

II. PD Workshops for organizations to Understand, reimagine and transform

The landscape is changing and evolving for many community organizations. There is a need to understand their community's needs at a deeper level and use that understanding to transform how they serve which requires new skills.

EXCITE Transformation workshops have been used across 50+ multi-national businesses as well as over 64 community organizations to train staff in the critical skills that allow them to gain this deeper community understanding as well as core skills in true collaboration and innovation required to successfully reimagine and transform.
 

DPS workshops have been taught worldwide and can teach organization leaders how to deepen their personal performance and approach to leading using the Heart-Mind-Body techniques and mindsets of high-level classical pianists and performers.

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Designed for Community-driven organizations to learn the tools and gain the skills to:

  • Engage community in dialogue to understand both functional and emotional needs of their community at the deepest level

  • Reimagine & transform what they do and how they serve community to align with those needs

  • Engage in purposeful innovation to make sure the programs they develop hit the target.

  • Strengthen their own personal performance using Heart-Mind-Body techniques

EXCITE Transformation

Watch the 8 minute video to hear Librarians who participated in Innovation Builders' groundbreaking "EXCITE Transformation For Libraries" program to build capacity in the 21st Century Skills of Innovation and Transformation. The pilot was done in partnership with CT State Library and was awarded an IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Grant that brought the EXCITE Program to Libraries across the US.

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