Belonging is a practice, not a survey
Small, weekly actions that people actually do, open to every employee, and the evidence they leave behind.
The research behind it
Edmondson's psychological safety framework
The psychological safety research behind Google's Project Aristotle
Baumeister and Leary's need to belong
Belonging is a core human motivation, not a perk
Allport's contact hypothesis
Structured cross-group connection is the evidence base for Circles
Five practices, one evidence trail
Circles
Weekly team check-ins (preventive measure)
Small-group reflection prompts delivered weekly. Anonymous responses surface themes that surveys miss, building psychological safety through shared vulnerability.
Belonging Rituals
A weekly psychosocial pulse, in seconds
Short weekly micro-rituals delivered where work happens: Slack, Teams, or email. One-tap responses take seconds but accumulate into a rich belonging signal, at a cadence you choose.
Micro-Allyship
Respect and anti-harassment actions
Concrete, small-stakes actions that compound into cultural shift. Users commit to practices, track streaks, and build habits that outlast any training session.
Inclusion Map
Where risk concentrates, by team
A living network graph showing where belonging flows and where it fractures. Teams appear as nodes; connection strength shows real relationship health.
Equity Lens
Equality plan and pay gap view
Toggle on to overlay demographic intersections across the inclusion map. See where belonging diverges by gender or tenure, without exposing individuals.
A typical week
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Monday
A one-tap intention ritual lands where people already work: Slack, Teams or email.
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Wednesday
A short midweek check-in on how the week is going.
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Thursday
An energy check that shows where load is building up.
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Friday
A reflection that only the person who wrote it can see.
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Every week
Small circles answer one prompt together, anonymously, and a themed summary comes back to the group.
The evidence it produces
Each practice leaves a record. Together they are the follow-up an inspector, a works council or a board can check.
- Participation records show that workers were asked about their experience, and how many answered.
- Circle themes and allyship commitments record the preventive measures planned or adopted.
- Ritual trends and the inclusion map show whether those measures are working.
- A weekly pulse on the same factors shows that low-risk factors stay low.
- The Register keeps each obligation's status and links the evidence behind it.
This practice sits alongside the statutory psychosocial evaluation, which is always run with a validated instrument. Climate and satisfaction surveys are not valid evaluations of psychosocial risk, and ClimaHQ never presents rituals, circles or pulse surveys as one.