how connection develops
Explore what helps us feel understood, valued, and able to take part.
Feeling Connected explores what helps us feel understood, valued, and able to take part, and why connection matters for our individual well-being and our shared future.
Drawing on research, real-life stories, and practical insights, Sandy Martin shows how connection develops and how we can all nurture it in everyday life.
Develop connection inside your family, social circle, workplace, community, and more.
Gathering Guides
How does feeling connected support our bodies and our capacity to thrive?
Sandy Martin, author of Feeling Connected: Why Connection Matters and How It Develops, explores research on how supportive relationships relate to stress responses, recovery, and vitality. From holding a loved one’s hand to eating with a partner nearby, studies reveal how being with someone close to us can influence how our bodies respond.
The session also explores how feeling supported can help us approach challenges, pursue interests, and try something new. Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of how connection supports our health, our enjoyment of life, and what we feel able to do.
Stories, conversations, and a little humor about the ways we connect.
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A three-hour dinner in Paris and a circle of New York watch enthusiasts lead Gary Shteyngart and Dan Harris into a conversation about how people become friends.
Source: 10% Happier with Dan Harris
Lisa Feldman Barrett explores how we understand feelings, help regulate one another, and develop new emotional experiences through our relationships.
Theo Von and Richard Reeves talk jiu-jitsu, recovery meetings and time with the guys.
How shared time, different social preferences and regular plans can give friendship a place in adult life, drawing on Kasley Killam’s conversation with Mel Robbins.
Laurie Santos discusses friendship with Derek Thompson, including our expectations of other people, the value of personal conversation and the place of solitude.
Johnny Knoxville joins Jordan Klepper on The Daily Show to talk friendship and Jackass.
The desire for company, shared attention, and responsiveness each reveal something about social bonding. Andrew Huberman’s discussion offers a way into the research.
In conversation with Trevor Noah and Eugene, Adam Grant explores how shared goals, enjoyment, and care shape our relationships, and how we can give those connections room to develop.
Nick Offerman on hobbies, from birdwatching to woodworking, on The Daily Show.
A conversation with Michelle Obama, Craig Robinson, and Dave Chappelle about shared enjoyment, everyday familiarity, and the places that bring us together.