We train relationship skills

The skills of connection are learnable. The Social Gym designs evidence-based training in the capabilities and behaviours that build the social fitness and health of individuals, workplaces, and communities.

We can no longer afford to neglect our social health

Our social health is determined by the extent to which our relationships meet our needs. An ever-growing body of evidence shows that our social health is critical to longevity, wellness, productivity, resilience and happiness.

We’ve never needed to focus on our social health more than now. The US Surgeon General has called social disconnection a public health crisis. Workplace conflict costs UK organisations tens of billions annually. Communities without functional relationships have no defence against ecological, political or economic hardships.

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Yet we do next to nothing to protect our social health.

We treat the skills that support social fitness - like conflict navigation, listening, questioning, rapport building, repair work - as innate. They aren’t. We treat the practices and design choices that build social fitness as optional. That’s tragic.

The Social Gym is the training ground for measurable improvements to social fitness.

Our approach to social fitness

We train individuals, teams, workplaces and communities. Our approach is always evidence-based, informed by behavioural design and focused on measurable outcomes.

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Diagnose the strengths and gaps in your own, or your organisation’s, social fitness to pinpoint what needs work and where to start.

FITNESS TEST

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Bespoke support to design the environment, habits, and practices that build social fitness for individuals, leaders and organisations.

PERSONAL TRAINING

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Train in the key relationship skills and strategies that none of us were taught - but we all need - through group sessions, masterclasses and cohort programmes.

WORKOUTS

Explore what we do

  • “I’m 65 - I didn’t think anyone could teach me anything about how to have a better conversation. How wrong I was! I wish I’d had this training decades ago.”

    Participant, Membership Organisation

  • "A fascinating and thought-provoking [training], that immediately made me want to mix up my social scene."

    Partner, Consultancy

  • “A crisis of empathy has diminished us at home, at work, and in public life”

    Sherry Turkle

  • "The Social Gym brought an incredible energy to the room ... the sessions are dynamic and interactive, backed by impressive research."

    Liv Sibony, Programme Lead, UnLtd

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