Strategy Sessions
Design experiences people actually want to show up for.
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You need a creative partner who can help you see your event, gathering, or community space through the lens of belonging, and walk away with a clear plan to make it happen.
You don’t need another consultant.
These focused strategy sessions bring Eli’s 20+ years of performance expertise and evidence-based belonging research directly to your biggest design challenges. You’ll dig into what's working, what's falling flat, and how to create the conditions where people genuinely connect.
Advisement Services
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Belonging Brainstorm (90 minutes)
A rapid-fire virtual creative session for when you have a specific event, gathering, or community challenge and need fresh eyes and actionable ideas, fast.
We'll spend 90 minutes breaking down your current approach, identifying the friction points that prevent real connection, and generating concrete tactics you can implement immediately. You'll leave with a prioritized list of belonging interventions tailored to your context.
Best for: An upcoming event you want to elevate, a recurring gathering that's gone stale, or a new community initiative you're launching.
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Belonging Sprint (4 hours)
For when you need to go deeper. This intensive virtual working session gives us time to map your full experience design, pressure-test your assumptions, and build out a detailed belonging strategy together.
We'll move through each phase of your participant journey - (from first invitation through post-event follow-up) - applying the P.L.A.Y. Method to identify exactly where connection gets made or lost. You'll leave with a comprehensive playbook for your specific event or program.
Best for: Annual conferences, retreat design, membership community overhauls, or flagship experiences that need to deliver.
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Belonging Bootcamp (Full Day)
The full immersion. This is for teams who design experiences and want to fundamentally shift how they think about engagement, connection, and participation.
We'll combine hands-on learning with real-time application so that your team will experience belonging principles in action while simultaneously applying them to your actual projects. By day's end, you'll have both a shared framework for designing belonging and concrete plans for your upcoming initiatives.
Best for: Event teams, community managers, HR/culture teams, or organizations launching major engagement initiatives.
Street Cred.
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 arise—because when your people feel like they belong within your vision, you can grow more stustainably, do more good and make the positive impact you’ve always wanted.