We believe the most powerful events start with the most honest questions.
Before we design, we listen. Before we build, we ask. Our international research project — Are We REALLY Listening? — is exploring how people experience connection, listening and being heard in a world that makes all three increasingly hard to find.
The insights we gather don’t sit in a report. They shape everything we build.
The Research
WHAT WE’RE EXPLORING
In a world of constant noise, digital distraction and competing demands, something fundamental is changing about how we connect with each other.
We’re asking people across communities, generations and cultures three essential questions:
How do you experience genuine connection in your everyday life?
When did you last feel truly listened to — and what made that possible?
What gets in the way of being heard?
The answers are shaping how we design our events, develop our methodology and create spaces that respond to what people actually need — not what we assume they do.
WHY THIS RESEARCH MATTERS
Real voices build real solutions.
The Are We REALLY Listening? methodology was born from conversations with inspiring individuals advocating for things that matter. Our research continues that spirit — gathering honest insight from families, communities and organisations around the world to ensure that everything we create is genuinely grounded in lived experience.
We’re not researching from the outside. We’re listening from the inside.
We’re collaborating with organisations, networks and communities who want to contribute to — and benefit from — this research.
Every partner organisation receives a unique research link, giving their community a tailored way to participate. In return they receive their own bespoke findings — insight specific to their people — alongside comparisons from our growing global dataset.
This means your organisation doesn’t just contribute to something bigger. You gain something genuinely useful about the people you serve.
WHO WE’RE LOOKING TO WORK WITH
We’re particularly interested in connecting with organisations that bridge generations, bring communities together or work with young people and the adults in their lives — because the gap between what different generations experience and what they share with each other is at the heart of what we’re trying to understand.
If your network or community is exploring questions of connection, listening or intergenerational dialogue — we’d love to talk.
TAKE PART
Whether you’re an individual who wants to share your experience, or an organisation interested in bringing the research to your community — there’s a place for you here.
Individual: Take our research survey and contribute your voice to a growing global conversation.
Organisation or network: Get in touch to receive your own unique research link and bespoke findings for your community.
Academics and researchers: Curious about the data and methodology? Get in touch to find out more about the research behind the project.
Your community. Your findings. A global picture.
This research doesn’t end when we publish the findings.
It lives in every event we run, every space we create and every conversation we make possible.
Thank you for being part of it.