We are Going Deeper
Having highlighted in my January 14th article, Bridge Builders Collaborative is going deeper.
Many of our early investments have built tools and resources to help people reduce stress, breathe more intentionally, calm the mind and focus, and be more present in the moment. One of the best things we discovered interacting with tools like Headspace, eMindful, Happify, and many other companies was a shift in relationship to one’s thoughts, emotions, and daily stress. It has been valuable work.
However knowing the level of trauma in the world, these tools can only provide the beginning steps in healing and the transformation process. In that sense, some of these apps and software services are gateway drugs (and some of them are approved by the FDA). They provide practices that invite one on a life-long journey of discovery, integration, and learning to live as our whole selves. How do we continue to expand awareness and explore new realities as they are revealed? How do we find, face, and heal the traumas or adverse experiences stored in our bodies and minds? How do we address our social conditioning by family, school, community, religion, and society at large?
After a strategic process last year, Bridge Builders Collaborative committed to our next chapter of going deeper, which we announced earlier this year. We are continuing to support our current investments as they grow and expand their impact. Naturally, some of them are going deeper, like Happify Health. They launched Happify Connect, which is partnering with TalkSpace, whose signature product provides psychotherapy services with a dedicated licensed clinician through its secure HIPAA-compliant digital platform. This allows users to receive professional assistance for going deeper in their transformative process. Another example is Fabriq, a social wellness platform, that evolved out of a chapter one investment in MeetMindful.
We are exploring new investments that are innovative technologies, applications, and platforms that support going deeper. Here is our deck that has been disseminated to our network.
