If you've already been learning with us, you’re coming off a stretch where people have been thinking hard about generative AI, what it is, how it’s changing, and where being human is an advantage. Or, maybe you just joined or are rejoining us - welcome. This next 18-week session shifts our lens from AI to human connection.
Because how you are being with other people shapes everything.
Not just what you do.
Not just what you say.
But how you are.
Human Connection is an expression of your way of being. How you listen. How you respond. How you show up when things are uncertain, uncomfortable, not going your way, or certain, comfortable and going your way.
AI can process, predict, and generate but it can't do one thing…
It cannot care. It cannot BE caring.
And that difference has consequences.
Most teams are not limited by strategy or intelligence. They are limited by the quality of connection between the people who make up the group or business. Conversations don’t happen. Assumptions go unchallenged. People hold back, manage perception, or play it safe. Over time, that quietly constrains what is possible.
Connection allows us to show up, be seen, and see others.
When people are genuinely connected, people create space to share how they and others see things without needing to defend or protect themselves. Ownership in the work increases. Ideas build. Learning accelerates. Work becomes more than execution. It becomes shared creation.
Beginning April 24th, we’ll explore both the science and the lived experience of human connection through several different lenses.
We will release prep work weekly as a space to prepare you for our live calls.
There will be seventeen to nineteen live calls in this session. (We reserve to right to modify based on the learning from the group)These are not lectures. They are shared meaning-making spaces. Places to test assumptions, surface blind spots, and learn with the cohort.
Our request is simple, but not always easy:
Work this in your life. Run experiments. Share what you learn from your experiments. Remember that experiments are actions we take that gives us outcomes. The outcomes are information that we can use to learn.
We will be using the following books for our work together:
First 8 weeks: How to Know a Person by David Brooks
Last 10 weeks: How Minds Change by David McRaney
In How to Know a Person, David Brooks challenges us to move beyond surface-level interaction into genuine seeing and being seen, what it actually takes to make another person feel understood.
In How Minds Change, David McRaney examines how people shift beliefs, not through force or facts alone, but through relationship, safety, and curiosity.
Together, these works point to something essential. Human connection is not accidental, or a gift that you did or didn’t receive. It is a skill that can be practiced, deepened, and chosen.
This won’t be a theoretical study. As with all of our work together in the Human Praxis Lab, the invitation is to try it on. To notice where you hold back. To experiment with new ways of listening, questioning, and engaging. To see what happens when you are more present with another person, especially when it’s uncomfortable.
And underneath all of that is a more fundamental question:
Who are you BEing when you are with other people?
If the last 16 weeks showed us where AI is accelerating, this next chapter asks something more personal. Where are you willing to take responsibility for how you show up? Because the real advantage is not just that humans can connect. It is that we can choose to. And in that choice sits the potential for trust, collaboration, and outcomes no system can produce on its own.
On Speaking and Being Seen
The human advantage is not only thinking - it is articulation, it is creating space for connection.
Recording yourself speaking and uploading those recordings in our Mighty Networks app is part of the work. Not to perform. Not to impress. Not to earn a gold star. But to practice giving voice to what you are noticing as it is happening.
- You will record short video reflections for the group to watch.
- Polished is not the goal. Presence is.
- Videos are due by 5:00 pm PT Thursday before our weekly call.
- The space from Thursday evening to our Friday call is reserved for watching one another’s recordings and letting the work land.
- When you have watched a video, comment, or attach an emoji to let everyone know your recording has been watched.
This is where resistance often shows up. Good. This is where we learn - in the resistance.
Expect friction. Expect humility. Expect moments of clarity followed by uncertainty. This is what learning on the edge feels like.
So, bring your curiosity.
Bring your fear and courage.
Bring your imagination.
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