You Belong Here

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Everyone feels like an outsider at some point in their life — that moment of walking into a room and thinking, I don't belong here. To avoid these feelings of exclusion, many of us hide our authentic selves and allow others to define our identity.

You Belong Here offers a new framework that allows each of us to define how we want to be seen, heard, and valued on our own terms, so we feel a sense of belonging in any situation. It also serves as a launchpad for organizational leaders and culture builders to create safe spaces for people to show up as their authentic selves.

Readers will explore our four identities:

• Our Lived Identity is made up of the aspects of our identity we inherit when we are born into the world.
• Our Learned Identity includes the parts of our identity that we've chosen or claimed as we make our way through the world.
• Our Lingering Identity is the identity we default to when we feel like an outsider and fall back into as a survival mechanism.
• Our Loved Identity is where we find our authentic selves and see ourselves through a lens of empowerment.

In the journey to understand our past experiences and how society has established barriers to entry, we can design our own future, rooted in our Loved Identity. We learn to rewrite the stories that aren't serving us and embrace the ones that do. Rather than look for a seat at someone else's table, we find the tools to build our own.

When we fully live this, with authenticity and purpose, we find belonging at home, at work, and in society. Belonging is realized when we understand that everyone is an outsider, and it's the power of creating space for those differences that unites us all.

Bring It to Your Team

The four identities aren't just a framework for the page — they're the foundation for the Talks, Workshops, and Studio work we do with movement builders everywhere. If this resonated, let's talk about what it could look like in your organization.