Community & Connection Archives - Valery Navarrete Consulting

How do you celebrate?

A Black woman dressed in a hunter green blazer throws her hands up in the air and smiles widely. She is surrounded by confetti.

Celebration (or the lack of it) is often-cited as an example when people talk about what’s working, or isn’t, in the culture of their workplace.

Four ingredients every leader can use to create more connected teams

A number of people of different skin tones with their hands laid across a tree branch.

These four ingredients will provide you as a leader with simple, straightforward foundations in your efforts to be more intentional around how to create more connected teams.

The possibility of a different story

Valery Navarrete, consultant, facilitator, speaker, and coach, in New York City in 2012.

Tips from a facilitator and community builder to improve your conflict literacy.

Community nourishment

A blue bowl filled with red fideo soup and garnished with green chopped cilantro sits above and to the right of a large white plate filled with two cheese quesadillas and a serving of guacamole garnished with lime wedges. The table underneath is red.

Community nourishment, whether in the form of actual food or another offering, is something we all need to feel full.

We need more “us”: the hope of community

Aerial photo of the roofs of a houses in a neighbourhood.

The pandemic exacerbated isolation and shone a spotlight on loneliness. However, it is also clear that it didn’t invent them; and that its end won’t eliminate them. We need to do that.

We need ritual

An Año Viejo burns in the street on New Year's eve in Quito, Ecuador.

We need ritual. It connects us to our people, and to ourselves. At its best ritual holds us in our goodbyes and ushers us into joy as we stand in the doorways of new beginnings.