Community builders & hosts
You bring people together around a place, a purpose, or a shared curiosity. Help those first connections grow into a community people help shape.
Community Catalyst Training Programme
A world
without strangers.
Learn the craft of bringing people together. Create spaces where people feel seen, build meaningful relationships, and find their own ways to contribute.
The Community Catalyst programme
Bring connection
to life.
You bring people together. This is a place to deepen the craft.
Learn to gather people around a shared purpose, turn first encounters into meaningful relationships, and design experiences that bring a culture of belonging to life. Work with real situations from your community, space, team, or neighborhood, turning shared learning into deeper relationships, thoughtful experiences, and leadership that grows.
Begin online.
Six live learning labs blend facilitated conversation, peer exchange, and shared practice. Explore new approaches, try them in your own setting, and return with insights to build on together.
Meet in the world.
Participate in a PURE experience as an apprentice. Practise curation, help people feel at home, and support your host in bringing a culture of connection to life.
Who this is for
For the people
who bring people together.
Help people find their place, build relationships that matter, and shape a culture they want to be part of.
Hospitality & shared spaces
You shape the life of a hotel, retreat, co-living home, or co-working space. Create a welcome that becomes a feeling of belonging.
Leaders & people teams
You care for a team or an organization. Deepen trust, invite contribution, and create the conditions for people to lead together.
Civic & nonprofit practitioners
You organize in neighborhoods, movements, or social programmes. Build relationships and participation around what your community cares about.
“Community is the root structure
that holds humanity together.”Ryan Fix
A community of practice
Learn together.
Keep creating.
Training opens the door to a practitioner community: people creating connection in different corners of the world, sharing what works, and helping one another through the questions that arise.
Your training includes a year of community access. Use the app to exchange practices, ask for support, and find collaborators for gatherings and projects.
Advisors & Guides
Architects
of culture.
Bringing together cultural pioneers, global thought leaders, and visionary entrepreneurs to shape the learning and inspire a culture of connection.
Meet the people behind the programmeThe unfolding journey
More life.
Between us.
Born to Connect began with a question: what becomes possible when we feel more connected to life?
The training gives that question a practical home: helping people bring a culture of connection into their communities, teams, workspaces, and neighborhoods.
In a world where so many feel isolated, lost, or disconnected, Born to Connect invites us to shape another possibility: a culture of connection that changes how we live, work, and care for one another. Carried from person to person, community to community, it becomes a shared movement toward a world without strangers.
Your next step
Bring your world.
Grow what’s possible.
Tell us about the people you bring together and what you hope to nurture. The next step is a personal conversation.
Explore at your own pace
Spark your
curiosity.
The book and Connection Challenge are companions to the training, turning ideas into conversations, experiments, and everyday practice.
Read & reflect
Born to Connect
The story and ideas behind the training. A companion for exploring how connection with ourselves, one another, and life shapes the communities we create.
Discover the book
Try & notice
The Connection Challenge
Fourteen invitations to bring connection into everyday life. Small experiments in presence, curiosity, and courage, with space to reflect on what changes.
Explore the challenge