Humans are built to connect
Engagement is a competency.
We teach it.
When your audience feels seen and heard everything changes
When humans connect, teams collaborate, leaders emerge, and cultures transform.
People are designed to engage and build on each other’s ideas. Our experiential workshops and programs are actual reps in real-time with immediate feedback.
Built on our Six-Box Model™
The portal for developing human engagement competencies.
Three questions applied to three relationships. A practice for raising to consciousness how you show up under stress, deciding if that's how you want to, and simplifying the nature of my relationships.
Human engagement at work
More than a decade of workshops
years of practice
People found what they came for
satisfaction rate
Humans who felt seen and heard
and counting…
“I got far more from this program than I ever could have imagined. My Connection Lab program became a watershed moment—where I found a voice I didn’t know I had and a comfort in myself that once felt unattainable.”
“Not only did I learn a TON of actionable practices regarding presentation and leadership that I could apply to my role, but much of this can be used in life. To me, that's such a win.”
Lab Notes
Real conversations with participants about their experiences. Recent episodes:
Learning: What do you want to get better at?
Permission: Practicing the six-box model
Soften: The relationship between business and breathing
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Questions we hear
We are currently offering pilot pricing rate of $50 per seat per workshop — a limited-time opportunity to experience Connection Lab's human engagement training at an introductory price. Your participation during this period directly shapes and improves the experience for everyone who comes after you. Our pilot pricing rate pricing is available through August 31, 2026. Each workshop is a 3-hour live online session, scheduled on a day of your choice. After this date, Public Workshops are $250 per workshop, per person (scholarship pricing available on request). Enterprise Programs are custom-quoted based on team size, program options, and engagement length.
Ontological coaching is a powerful, holistic methodology focused on "shifting a person's worldview" - their core language, emotions, and bodily posture - to create sustainable personal and professional change. Rather than just solving problems, it alters how we perceive ourselves and others in the world, expanding their possibilities for new choices in action. Learn more→
We know these tools firsthand. We've used them, facilitated them, and seen the value they create. Organizations reach for them for good reason: they're accessible, they build a shared language quickly, and people genuinely enjoy the experience. The debrief is often the best conversation of the quarter.
And then everyone goes back to work.
The labels stick, but the behavior doesn't change. The insight stays in the room. It rarely survives first contact with a difficult conversation, a high-stakes presentation, or a team under pressure. That's not a failure of the tools — it's the limitation of what any diagnostic can do on its own.
Connection Lab works where these tools stop. Drawing on the communication principles of the performing arts and ontological coaching, our experiential workshops develop the live, embodied practice of human engagement — in the room, under pressure, in the conversations that determine outcomes. Our Lab Pass platform keeps the practice going — because lasting change requires what the performing arts have always known: relationship, repetition, and support, until new ways of showing up become simply who you are.
The question we start with isn't what type are you? Instead, we ask: how do I show up under stress? How do I want to show up — and, if there is a gap, what competencies do I want to get better at? Those questions scale. They work for the individual, the team, and the organization as a whole.
Beyond a snapshot of ourselves in a single moment in time, Connection Lab develops the competencies of engagement and collaboration — ingredients for progress in both personal and professional development.
After the workshop, you will likely feel a glow of energy from the experience. In service of keeping that warmth alive, you'll be invited to join your cohort in what we call the Lab Pass — our practice web app designed to support your ongoing development of human engagement. Use it to stay connected to your team and practice the tools and language of the Six Box Model. Shared practice is proven to be more effective than going it alone — and your cohort will support you every step of the way.
This work is for anyone who feels isolated and unsure about their ability to connect with others. It is for the experienced presenter who wants to level up. This work is for anyone who wants to build their capacity for empathy or increase innovation and productivity through collaboration. This work is for individuals, teams, and organizations that want to fulfill their potential through co-creation.
Diagnosis is extremely valuable in a wide variety of fields. However, it's often conflated with practice. Diagnosis is not practice. People often assess a situation and imagine themselves changing their practice without actually doing it. Changing one's practice can be intimidating, so it is helpful to remember that we are practicing already all day, every day.
Modifying our practice, even the tiniest amount, can lead to profound growth.
Connection Lab will never assess you, nor will you receive a diagnosis from us. Development assessments can provide useful language, but rarely provide specific guidance in the area of engagement. Connection Lab is a human engagement tool designed to raise awareness of how effective we are at engaging others and collaborating in general.
No. Enterprise Programs are built for intact teams—you don't need to test-drive anything first. That said, a lot of HR leaders come through Public Workshops before rolling this out company-wide. It's not a prerequisite, but if you want to see how this feels before bringing your whole team in, that's an option.