Belonging & Community Engagement Consulting
Your event, community and culture have more belonging potential than you think. Let's find it.
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Eli works directly with community leaders, event professionals and organizations to design belonging and engagement into the experiences and cultures they're responsible for.
These focused strategy sessions bring Eli’s 20+ years of performance expertise and evidence-based belonging research directly to your biggest design and relational challenges. You’ll dig into what's working, what's not, and how to use P.L.A.Y. to set up the conditions for belonging and engagement to arise naturally again and again.
Belonging, Built to Last
A great experience can light a room up for a day. Advisement is for leaders who want belonging built into the culture itself, so it can sustain and grow while no one is watching. We diagnose where connection is being ignited or lost across your organization, community or live event, then work with you to design the strategy to strengthen it through our social wellness experiences and trainings.
Eli’s advisement offerings are perfect for organizations, including community and social impact groups, that take culture seriously enough to measure it. We are glad to work with larger organizations too, but the heart of this work is geared toward partners who want belonging woven into how they operate, rather than checked off a “to-do” list.
How It Works
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We use belonging diagnostics, including culture and connection surveys, to map exactly where your people feel included and where they feel left out.
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We translate the findings into a clear strategy, using the P.L.A.Y. Method to target the specific places connection breaks down.
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We pair the strategy with live experiences and training, so insight alchemizes into positive change people can feel and leaders can measure.
Our Community Engagement Consulting is Perfect for:
Organizations rolling out or rethinking a culture or engagement strategy
Communities and member organizations working to rebuild connection
Mission driven and social impact groups that want belonging at their core
Rapidly founders who want a baseline, a plan and a way to measure progress
3 ways to work with Eli. Choose the one that fits where you are.
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Belonging Brainstorm
The Belonging Brainstorm is one focused, 90-min. virtual session with Eli, where you’ll go deep on how to spark belonging and engagement at your specific upcoming event.
You walk away with a written experience script you can hand to any facilitator or use yourself with specific language, structure, play and social wellness interventions mapped to every key moment of human interaction of your event.
This is for you if you have an upcoming conference, retreat, off-site, community event, or recurring gathering that you want to elevate.
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Belonging Bootcamp
You’re building a new community, a recurring program, a culture initiative or maybe a signature gathering series and you need a seasoned belonging buddy who can go the distance with you through the messy middle.
Four weekly 60-minute sessions plus async support between them. We move through vision, architecture, activation, and launch using the P.L.A.Y. Method to build belonging into every layer of what you're creating.
You walk away with a complete written P.L.A.Y. Plan (experience design framework), facilitation scripts for key moments, community engagement strategy and a launch plan, plus one 30-minute follow-up call within 60 days for when you've run it once and extra questions arise.
This is for you if you're a community builder, event professional, people leader, or solopreneur launching something new and need both the structure and the accountability to build it right the first time.
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Community Engagement Partner
For organizations that want belonging built in
For organizations that need less of a one-time consult and more of a belonging expert embedded in their culture, showing up consistently to help design, activate, and sustain engagement across their team, events and community.
This can look like ongoing experience design, community activation and programming, employee engagement strategy, communication consulting, or direct support for the leaders responsible for culture. Every engagement is scoped in conversation because every organization's belonging gaps are different.
Customized for a small number of select clients.
Best for: Event teams, community managers, HR/culture teams, or organizations launching major engagement initiatives.
What People Are Saying
Clients love working with Eli for her unique ability to turn everyday interactions into immersive, transformative experiences that ignite connection through play, foster belonging on a budget, and bring out the best in them and those they lead.
“Working with Eli is true magic. She hones into your vision then uses her special skill set to introduce new and fun aspects that were likely never on your radar. I had people dancing in the kitchen while we simmered tomatoes; this never would have happened without her.”
- Antonella Aguilera-Ruiz
Founder of Dr and the Chef
Work with Eli to build belonging & engage your people.
With a proven track record as a belonging facilitation expert and live experience designer, Eli has worked with global organizations and leaders as well as solo-entrepreneurs-turned-community-facilitators to enhance connection through play, mindfulness, and storytelling.
Her P.L.A.Y. Method is a tested and transformative approach to cultivating belonging, combining live experience design and interactive engagement to inspire lasting connection. Let Eli help you create the conditions for belonging to arise naturally so you can grow more sustainably, do more good and make the positive impact you’ve always wanted.