1. Facilitating connection

• ·      Building community

• ·      Alleviating loneliness

• ·      Mindfulness, making connections between mind and body

• ·      Drawing on collective wisdom

2. Guiding with compassion

• ·      Offering a first-person perspective, support from someone who learned the pitfalls the hard way

• ·      Providing a trauma-informed approach

3. Fostering resilience

• ·      Creating healthy boundaries

• ·      Navigating burnout

4. Centering the individual

• ·      Guiding with a humanistic therapy approach

• ·      Valuing individuals’ unique experiences

• ·      Prioritizing clients’ self-direction

5. Fostering creativity

• ·      Bolstering acts of creation to bring new products or ideas into the world

• ·      Supporting clients who may be burnt out and need help finding their way back to creativity