We guide small group conversations with the intention of fostering meaningful connection and transformational understanding. Empowered and with a renewed sense of wellbeing, individuals go on to impact their communities in real ways for the good.

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While the delivery of Valo may look different in each setting, our model remains consistent. There are four major components of our work which include:

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Culture: Our Ways of Being

• Connected, open, curious, vulnerable

• Engaged and unplugged

• Playful, warm, inclusive, hopeful

• Attention to openings and closings, a space to pause

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Conversations: A Time to Focus on Emotional Wellbeing

• Centered in confidentiality, trust, and curiosity

• A focus on sharing and listening versus finding a solution

• Cultivating awareness of others and self

• Opportunities to come to understand differences

• Quiet and calm, open to possibilities

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Creating: Light, Playful, Letting Go - Another Chance to Connect

• Sharing meals - cooking, baking, tasting

• Art - painting, block printing, leather making

• Time outside - frisbee, cold water dips, soccer, yoga, walks

• Play - board games, hide and seek, spoons

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Centering - an Opportunity to Reflect

• Journaling

• Meditating

• Quiet moments alone

• Time in nature

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Tools to Take Away:

• A pathway toward emotional wellness and resilience

• Ways to identify, process, and openly share feelings

• A practice of active listening by asking questions and engaging with intention

• Empathy and a capacity to understand different perspectives

• Confidence to speak one's truth

• Skills to cultivate connection and build community