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The Belonging Triangle: A Framework for Better Gatherings

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Christina Hug

Founder at BoardingPass.

Toronto, ON, Canada

Christina Hug is the founder of BoardingPass and the creator of Community Council, with over 15 years of experience in community strategy and experience design. She has launched and grown global programs including CreativeGuild and Virtual FieldTrips for CreativeMornings.

Her work blends facilitation, program design, and measurement frameworks so community teams can show impact while nurturing real connection. Through Community Council, she brings senior community leaders together to work on real challenges, learn from peers, and build relationships with people who understand the craft of belonging.

About this FieldTrip

Belonging is often described as a feeling. In practice, it’s the result of design decisions.

In this FieldTrip, we’ll explore The Belonging Triangle—a simple framework that breaks belonging down into three dimensions you can actually design for.

Whether you’re building a membership community, planning team offsites, or designing programs that bring people together, belonging doesn’t happen by chance. It’s the result of small, strategic choices that leaders and facilitators make—often without realizing it.

You’ll leave with:

  • A clear mental model for diagnosing where belonging breaks down in your spaces

  • Practical language to talk about belonging with your team, clients, or stakeholders

  • Real examples from community programs, offsites, and gatherings you can adapt to your own work

This session is for community builders, founders, and operators who design experiences that bring people together—and want to do that work more intentionally.


Agenda

  • This is a highly interactive session with time for individual reflection and optional group shares.

You will:

  • Map a community or gathering you lead against the Belonging Triangle 

  • Identify where belonging feels strong—and where it feels fragile

  • Surface the design choices that shape the experience (often invisibly) 

  • Design one small intervention you can test in the next two weeks


What to know or bring

  • To get the most out of this FieldTrip, come with one community, team, or recurring gathering in mind—something you help lead or care deeply about.

  • We'll use this as your working example throughout the session.

  • We'll be doing some reflection exercises so please make sure you have your preferred note taking instruments with you.


What to expect

Workshop format!

A hands-on session where participants get to build, craft, or create something tangible.

It will be recorded!

The recording will be shared within 24 hours in the follow up email for a 4-day window, and available at the top of this page. Make sure to register for access!

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Your Host

Christina Hug

Founder at BoardingPass.

Toronto, ON, Canada

About Christina Hug

Christina Hug is the founder of BoardingPass and the creator of Community Council, with over 15 years of experience in community strategy and experience design. She has launched and grown global programs including CreativeGuild and Virtual FieldTrips for CreativeMornings.

Her work blends facilitation, program design, and measurement frameworks so community teams can show impact while nurturing real connection. Through Community Council, she brings senior community leaders together to work on real challenges, learn from peers, and build relationships with people who understand the craft of belonging.


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How to make the most of FieldTrips

The FieldTrips experience is defined not only by what the host has to share, but also by how we show up individually and collectively. The way we show up impacts our capacity to be moved, inspired, and activated.

Show up fully

Get ready to be immersed! Engage with smiles, nods, waves, emojis. Share in the chat. Get cozy. Turn off notifications. Sip your favorite beverage.

Stay curious

Wear your beginner’s hat. Go with the flow. Welcome the stumbles and fumbles. Congratulate yourself for trying. Keep going! 

Celebrate your host

Our hosts are members of the CreativeMornings community—just like you! Everyone comes to this with different backgrounds—a lot of our hosts have never done anything like this before! And we love that! Cheer them on when something goes awry and when it goes perfectly.

Support each other

We’re all figuring things out in real time. Celebrate, rather than critique emerging ideas. Cheer each other on as you try new things.  Try “Yes! And…” in conversation.

Not vibing?

It’s 100% okay when a FieldTrip does not resonate with you. Pop out quietly and try another experience later. Fill out the survey with your feedback (no dms to host or chat commentary, please.)