Belonging
Toolkit
The take-home tools for humans and those who lead them. If you’ve experienced The Uplift Center’s social wellness experiences or trainings, here’s how you can keep your belonging practice going between programs. Same P.L.A.Y. Method we bring into organizations, sized to use on your own. New to the method and simply here for more real connection in your own life? These tools work for you too.
Belonging is not something you find. It is something you build, and like anything you build, it takes tools and repetition.
About the Toolkit
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About the Toolkit /
The Toolkit is the grab-and-use version of what we teach in our trainings and experiences. It is for the leaders who have been through an Uplift program and want to keep the muscle strong, and for anyone ready to design more connection into their own life.
Practice Tools
[Coming Soon]:
The P.L.A.Y. Method Guide
A short, interactive guide to the framework at the heart of everything we do, so you can design belonging into any room you lead. It blends storytelling, mindfulness and step-by-step moves you can use the same day.
P.L.A.Y. Planner
The guide teaches the method. The Planner turns it into a habit. This is the tangible one: a social wellness calendar built to infuse belonging into your schedule, with prompts, small rituals and room to design social connection with intention.
Uplift Academy
A growing digital library of yoga, guided meditations, recorded social wellness talks and rituals that keep you grounded, regulated and ready to lead with belonging. Rooted in yoga, storytelling and play, from Eli.
Social Wellness Shop
• Rubber mat with a microsuede top
• Anti-slip rubber bottom
• Size: 24″ × 68″ (61 cm × 173 cm)
• Weight: 62 oz. (1.75 kg)
• Mat thickness: 0.12″ (3 mm)
• Product sourced from China
• Rubber mat with a microsuede top
• Anti-slip rubber bottom
• Size: 24″ × 68″ (61 cm × 173 cm)
• Weight: 62 oz. (1.75 kg)
• Mat thickness: 0.12″ (3 mm)
• Product sourced from China
Learn the Framework for Real, Lasting Belonging
Belonging doesn’t happen by accident, it happens by design. The P.L.A.Y. Method™ breaks it down into four simple, soul-level steps:
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Place: Shape environments where people feel creative and inspired.
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Language: Use words that invite inclusion, commitment, and safety.
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Acknowledgment: Leverage play to get people out of their heads and into connection.
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You: Through mindfulness techniques, embody the presence and curiosity that make belonging contagious.
Together, these four pillars turn “meh” moments into magic—the kind that builds trust, creativity, and authentic connection anywhere you go.
“The P.L.A.Y. Book teaches you how to make belonging happen on purpose—and have fun doing it.”
The Belonging Playbook You Didn’t Know You Needed
Written by Eli Walker, creator of Drunk Yoga® and founder of The Uplift Center, this interactive book gives you the tools to build belonging from the inside out.
Eli’s Belonging P.L.A.Y. Book blends storytelling, mindfulness and a step-by-step guide to applying the P.L.A.Y. Method to your work, life and building the community of your dreams to help you cultivate the kind of connection that lasts longer than a networking event. Also? It’s super funny.
Meet the Mind Behind the Method
Eli Walker is a belonging expert, speaker, solo-performance artist and the creator of Drunk Yoga®, the viral social wellness movement that turned yoga into a drinking game. Now, through The Uplift Center, she helps organizations and individuals learn how to design belonging through play, mindfulness, and storytelling.