The Lab
"I Am Enough"
Guided practices for the most fundamental acknowledgement of all: the one you give yourself.
Hypothesis: If you practice telling yourself "I am enough" in your body, not just your mind, something shifts that no amount of external validation can.
Read more →A Human Who Listens
What if you could just talk to someone? No agenda. No diagnosis. No clipboard. Just a fellow human who shows up and holds space for whatever you're carrying.
Hypothesis: If you give people access to genuine human presence — without the framework of therapy, coaching, or advice — something shifts that no professional service can replicate.
Read more →Human Acknowledgement Protocol
A structured ritual for two strangers to see each other as human — before they know anything about each other.
Hypothesis: If you give people an invitation and a structure to see each other as human — before names, stories, or judgments — they will choose connection over isolation.
Read more →Wanted: Human (m/f/d)
Real job ads on real job boards — for the position of "Human (m/f/d)." A pattern interruption in the places where we reduce people to skill sets.
Hypothesis: If you place something deeply human inside a format designed to reduce people to skill sets, they'll stop scrolling — and start questioning.
Read more →Human CV
What if your CV showed who you actually are — not just what you've performed? A living document that makes the whole human visible: strengths, growth areas, values, and what you're going through right now.
Hypothesis: If people show themselves as whole humans — instead of hiding behind polished titles and flawless résumés — deeper connections and better collaboration will follow.
Read more →Dual Currency System
Trillions of hours of human contribution are economically invisible. This experiment proposes two complementary currencies to make that labor visible — and valued.
Hypothesis: If you give people two complementary currencies, they will coordinate, contribute, and trust at a scale that neither money nor goodwill alone can achieve.
Read more →Sitting by the Fire
Intimate conversations between strangers around a simple question: what does it mean to be human? No agenda. No structure beyond honesty.
Hypothesis: If you give people fire and permission to be honest, they will share things they don't share with the people closest to them.
Read more →Radical Recess Club
What happens when adults get structural permission to pause and play — not as self-care, but as a radical act? Micro-rituals, recess bells, and formats designed to reclaim the capacities that hustle culture buried.
Hypothesis: If you give adults permission to stop producing and start playing, they will rediscover capacities — creativity, presence, emotional range — that the adult world told them to put away.
Read more →Radical Humanity in Leadership
What happens when leaders stop performing certainty and start practicing honesty? An exploration of where the feeling of safety should actually come from — and what performed confidence costs everyone involved.
Hypothesis: If leaders practice honesty and vulnerability instead of performing certainty, their teams will trust them more, not less.
Read more →Department of Humanity
What if the department that takes care of people in a company was actually for the people — not for the company? An external, independent service that gives employees what internal HR structurally can't: someone truly on their side.
Hypothesis: If you place human care outside the organization — external, unbiased, with no conflicting loyalties — people will open up in ways they never would with their boss or an internal HR team.
Read more →This list will grow
The lab is open. If you have an idea for an experiment — something that explores human connection, vulnerability, trust, or what it means to be alive right now — we want to hear it.
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