Global Learning Webinar on Social Connection Strategies: Lessons from cross-country exchanges
Wed, Aug 20
|Webinar


Time & Location
Aug 20, 2025, 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM EDT
Webinar
Guests
About the event
The world wants connection and good ideas for how to build them are boundary-less.
Join this webinar to learn about two different cross-country exchanges where leaders from four countries coordinated trips to share strategies that build social connection across socio-economic levels and different sectors.
Maureen Feldman, Founder of Resonation in the United States, will share lessons from exchange with leaders from Japan where she explored how Japan is addressing the social isolation crisis through culturally rooted, participatory approaches in urban and rural communities. Participants will also hear from Melanie Wilde, CEO and Founder of the Foundation for Social Health in Australia.
Melanie will share lessons from her recent Mexico Study Tour where she explored how to regenerate public space as mental health infrastructure, better fund and measure justice and youth reintegration, and learn from community-led crisis prevention, and grassroots health peer networks.
Participants will gain inspiration for translatable strategies and ideas…