--- title: BraidedWork™ - Workplace Inclusion and Collaboration Program --- ![Global Nomads](https://content.gng.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Global_Nomads_Logo_Main-3.png?width=400) - [About](https://content.gng.org/braidedwork#about) - [Focus Areas](https://content.gng.org/braidedwork#focus) - [Delivery](https://content.gng.org/braidedwork#delivery) - [Get Started](https://content.gng.org/braidedwork#form) BraidedWork™ by Global Nomads # Working across *difference* is hard. Great teams aren't defined by what people have in common but by how well they work across difference. [Get Started](https://content.gng.org/braidedwork#form)[Learn more →](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lk6H7ATCE_SXilwyNJu5Sr4JAmW4J0g_/view) ![diverse team](https://content.gng.org/hs-fs/hubfs/diverse%20team.jpg?width=460&height=421&name=diverse%20team.jpg) About the program ## What is the BraidedWork™ Experience? Generational, cultural, gender and political tensions often go unspoken — and that silence has a cost. Organizations miss out on insights born from lived experience and unique perspectives, including from staff with no formal influence on organizational decisions. The BraidedWork™ Experience gives organizations a structured forum for surfacing the collective stories that build empathy, awareness, and action — strengthening how teams across different backgrounds, identities, and experiences work together and serve their communities. The experience follows a clear arc from personal story to shared understanding to real action. Each step builds on the last, moving participants from individual reflection to collective knowledge to concrete commitment. How it works ## A 5-Step Journey 1 Individual Story Personal narrative and lived experience shared in a safe, structured setting 2 Narrative Braiding Stories are woven together to reveal common threads and hidden patterns 3 Shared Understanding Collective insight emerges from the group's combined experiences 4 Collective Knowledge Teams synthesize insights into organizational awareness and empathy 5 Concrete Action Commitments and follow-through translate understanding into real change Who is this for? ## Organizations ready to lead from within Philanthropic organizations Non-Govermental Organizations Corporations Schools and Colleges Focus areas ## Focus on what matters most to your team Intergenerational Collaboration Neurodivergence and Belonging Gender Dynamics Healing & Wellbeing Disability and Access Race/Ethnicity/Language Dynamics **SOGIESC/LGBTQ+ Belonging** Socioeconomic Dynamics Delivery options ## Two ways to engage Choose the level of support that fits your organisation's capacity and goals. Pricing for both options is tailored to your organisation — team size, number of sessions, and scope all factor in. Reach out and we'll put together a proposal that fits. ### Toolkit and Implementation Support ⏱ 15 hours total commitment - **The BraidedWork™ Toolkit:** A definitive, step-by-step guide covering preparation, narrative braiding techniques, and session execution. - **Facilitator Certification:** Two intensive training sessions led by the BraidedWork™ designer. - **Expert Mentorship:** A dedicated check-in session with Global Nomads to refine your strategy. - **Participant Resources:** A complete library of handouts for staff engagement before, during, and after the experience. - **Measurement & Growth Tools:** Pre- and post-experience impact evaluation surveys with formal progress reviews at 3, 6, and 12 months. [Get Started](https://content.gng.org/braidedwork#form) ### Facilitated Experience Package ⏱ 6 hours total commitment - **Total Project Management:** We handle all logistics, pre-work, and strategic planning. - **Expert Facilitation:** Professional Global Nomads staff lead all live sessions. - **Comprehensive Follow-up:** Managed post-session debriefs and action items. Organizations that opt for Global Nomads to facilitate end-to-end can purchase this package in which Global Nomads manage all prework, planning, session facilitation and follow-up. [Get Started](https://content.gng.org/braidedwork#form) From the field " > What had once felt like an issue that happened somewhere else suddenly became personal, immediate, and impossible to keep at a distance. P Program Coordinator Global Nomads staff member · BraidedWork participant ## What Changed When I Finally Listened After a BraidedWork session on sexism and gender bias at work, I decided to reach out to the women in my life and ask whether the kinds of experiences raised in the session had happened to them too. I was taken aback by what I learned. My sisters, cousins, and friends each had their own set of experiences. We had grown up in the same home, family, and community — and yet lived completely different daily realities. I think that's the power of BraidedWork. It creates the conditions for people to truly listen, reflect, and change — both at the workplace and in their broader lives. Read the full story ↓ **A learning experience that goes deeper than information** I have worked at many places that claim to care about inclusion, equity, and belonging, but only through BraidedWork have I actually collaborated with my colleagues to tackle those ideas in community. This process moved me beyond passive awareness: I realized that I had heard about sexism and gender-based harm before, but had not fully listened to what those realities meant for the people around me. Through conversations and collective research around the topic of sexism and gender bias, I began noticing how gender norms and patriarchy manifested in my own life — in family dynamics, everyday privileges, and moments where I caught myself performing or acting in ways that reinforced the very systems I considered myself opposed to. **Masculinity and me** Before this BraidedWork experience, I had never questioned what masculinity meant to me, how my understanding of it had been shaped by my culture and family, or how I had never been invited to talk openly about it with other people, much less with other men. Workplaces often underestimate how powerful it can be to give people permission to talk about identity, power, and lived experience in ways they may never have done before. **Why this matters for organizations** Organizations like to use buzzwords like "diversity" and "inclusion" in their missions and values, but BraidedWork makes those commitments visible. It asks workers to dedicate real time, attention, and care to difficult topics — and puts workplace values into practice. My favorite part of BraidedWork is that it prompted conversations that surfaced the full depth of my colleagues' knowledge. We came in with different lived experiences, different perspectives, and different ways of making meaning. When those differences are invited into the room, they can sharpen ideas, improve learning experiences, and lead to solutions one person can't come up with on their own. BraidedWork is not designed to force everyone into the same viewpoint. People may still leave with different opinions. However, they leave having learned from one another, with a broader understanding of the issue and a stronger sense of how their own experience fits into a larger picture. And sometimes that starts with something as simple as listening closely enough to realize that the people closest to you have been carrying stories you've never fully listened to. [Read more stories like this](https://gng.org/news/) ![Three women from diverse backgrounds smiling together](https://content.gng.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Women%20together.jpg?width=1000&name=Women%20together.jpg) Why Global Nomads? ## Two Decades of Bridging Difference. Tested in complex conditions. Built for real change. For over two decades, we have designed experiences that help youth collaborate across deep differences in gender, culture, and generation. We move beyond stereotypes to build trust and alignment where traditional corporate tools fall short. Organizations come to us not because we replicate what other providers offer, but because we bring methods tested in complex conditions — and a genuine commitment to the kind of change that shows up in how colleagues treat each other. [Learn More About Global Nomads →](https://gng.org/) BOOK A CALL NOW ## Ready to engage your team? BraidedWork is a program of Global Nomads Group. Revenue from BraidedWork sustains our mission: designing cross-cultural experiences that build understanding and collaboration skills in young people worldwide.   **Global Nomads Group** 501(c)(3) non-profit registered in the USA 209 West 29th Street, Suite 224, New York, USA EIN: 75-2750127     [f](https://www.facebook.com/globalnomadsgroup)[ig](https://www.instagram.com/globalnomadsgroup)[in](https://www.linkedin.com/company/global-nomads-group) Powered by [Global Nomads Group](https://gng.org)