Welcome to Relate
Better relationships are built through practice.
Relationships shape our lives. Yet intentional opportunities to develop relational skills are often limited.
Relate helps people develop relational skills through learning, practice, and meaningful connection — bringing relational learning into everyday life.
Today
Your practice
The Spotlight
2 min
Communicate for a Change
Module 3 of 6
Your triad
Thursday
Illustrative people and sample screens
Technology that brings us together.
Better relationships are built through practice. Relate makes relational learning and practice more accessible in everyday life.
The Relate ecosystem
One connected system for relational growth.
Practice, Learn, and Connect are interconnected experiences, not three separate products. Each reinforces the others.
Learning can begin anywhere. People move between experiences based on their needs, returning to reflect and try again.
An illustrative story
Growth begins with awareness.
Scene 1 of 5
A moment of awareness
Jordan notices that conversations with someone close often become frustrating. Instead of immediately reacting, Jordan begins noticing what happens in those interactions — an opportunity to try something different.
Learn something. Practice it. Reflect. Try again.
Jordan is fictional — one possible way someone might engage with Relate, not a required path or a measured outcome.
Daily practice
Small practices. Meaningful change.
Short, intentional exercises offer something simple to try in your next conversation.
After trying a practice in everyday life, participants can return to reflect on what happened — then try again.
Available NowTry a practice on the phone
Today
Practices
Tap “The Spotlight” to begin
A few minutes of practice. Something to carry into your next conversation.
Learning Labs
Learning that becomes experience.
Learning Labs are guided experiences that help people develop particular relational capacities. Explore empathic listening through brief teaching, modeled examples, reflection, and practice.
Understanding is a beginning. The learning becomes experience when people try it with others.
Communicate for a Change · Empathy
Empathic Listening
Illustrative learning experience
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Understand
Empathic listening means trying to understand another person's experience from their point of view — and letting them know you understand.
An example learning sequence supported by DREAMS — not a replacement definition of that framework.
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Your journey
Six modules
Inside a live Learning Lab
Learn together. Practice together.
Available NowCommunication Barriers
Communicate for a Change · Module 1
Offering Adverse Advice
Teaching topic from the Module 1 agenda · illustrative slide layout
Participants prepare individually, practice together, and apply learning beyond the session.
Communicate for a Change · Module 3
Empathy
Video lesson: Introducing empathic listening
Individual lesson · approved video to come
Reflection
Think of a recent time someone tried to understand what you were going through. What did they do that helped you feel understood?
Short teaching videos, reflections and prework — on each person's own time.
Prework · Module 3
Video lesson: Introducing empathic listening
Think of a recent time someone tried to understand what you were going through. What did they do that helped you feel understood?
Participants prepare individually, practice together, and apply learning beyond the session.
Triads
Relationships grow in relationship.
Three participants practice together through a guided relational exercise, taking turns as Speaker, Listener, and Observer.
Technology provides structure. Participants create the relational experience through listening, reflection, and role rotation.
Stage 1 of 5 · Arrive
“In a word or two, how are you arriving today?”
A visual simulation with illustrative people and a fictional sample conversation — not real Relate users.
Speaker
Practice self-reflection and sharing.
Listener
Practice GREW listening skills.
Observer
Practice noticing the interaction.
Triads can learn together, too.
Three people. A shared practice. Space to listen and be heard.
Ongoing formation
Learning doesn’t end when the session does.
Your Relational Learning Journey
Our VisionJordan · fictional participant
Recent practices
Recently practiced: Empathic Listening
Listening for another person’s experience and reflecting back what you heard.
Illustrative participant dashboard · future concept, not a verified current feature. Nothing here is saved.
For organizations
From individual growth to stronger communities.
Churches, schools, workplaces, nonprofits, and community organizations can create opportunities for relational learning.
Participants learn and practice. Some pursue deeper learning or become facilitators, helping create new opportunities. Organizations support continuing participation.
Supporting the people who learn and practice together
Riverside Community Church
Fictional organization · organization dashboard
Facilitators
3 of 4 invited
Participants
31 of 42 invited
Learning Lab cohorts
Communicate for a Change — Fall Cohort
Module 3 of 6 · 18 members
Communicate for a Change — Evening Group
Module 1 of 6 · 13 members
Upcoming sessions
- Fall Cohort — Live Session 3Thursday · 7:00 PM
- Evening Group — Live Session 1Next Tuesday · 6:30 PM
Setup checklist
- Add organization branding
- Invite facilitators
- Invite participants
- Create first cohort
- Schedule first live session
Fictional data — no real participant information.
How different communities might use Relate
People in church communities learning relational skills and creating space to practice together.
Illustrative possibility — not an existing implementation.
Discover → Experience → Practice → Belong and Grow → Multiply. People can enter at different points and move between experiences — not a rigid funnel.
Imagine what becomes possible
What if technology helped bring us closer together?
Individuals develop new ways of relating.
Friends and families practice together.
Small groups create opportunities for reflection and growth.
Organizations help relational learning spread through their communities.
Relate connects accessible learning, everyday practice, and meaningful participation — not simply a library of digital courses.
Technology shouldn’t replace meaningful relationships. It can help us strengthen them.
Individual practice
The Spotlight
Choose someone and give them your full attention. For the next few minutes, the conversation is about them.
Sample practice screen
Illustrative images and sample screen — not Relate participants or outcomes
Help build what’s next.
Help build a future where more people have access to meaningful relational learning and practice.
Your partnership can support the continued development of tools and experiences that make this possible.