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Six Degrees of Connection

We found six essential elements across all sizes of partnerships—from dyads, to collectives, to movements—and across all types of partnerships—whether business, romantic, family or friends.

In today’s world, many of us are lonely and divided.

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  Something Bigger

  Lift your purpose

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  All-In

  100% have each other’s back.

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  The Ecosystem

  A moral ecosystem of virtues.

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  Magnetic Moments

  Build your shared history.

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  Celebrate Friction

  Turn conflict into learning opportunities

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  Collective Connections

  Scaled collaboration

These Six Degrees of Connection help us build meaningful relationships for a better life, better organizations, and a better world.

Partnerships

2,200 Years of
Partnership Wisdom

The people we’ve learned from:

• Spouses and cofounders of Riders for Health

  Andrea and Barry Coleman

• Friends and cofounders of Ben and Jerry’s

  Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield

• Brothers and cofounders of Life is Good

  Bert and John Jacobs

• Friends, fellow citizens, and partners in truth-seeking

  Robert P. George and Cornel West

• Spouses and cofounders of Detroit Vegan Soul

  Erika Boyd and Kirsten Ussery

• Spouses and partners in empowering women

  Eve Ellis and Annette Niemtzow

• Spouses and partners in designing better lives

  Tim and Gaynor Brown

• Best friends for life and partners in advocating for ending the death penalty

  Anthony Ray Hinton and Lester Bailey

• Spouses and partners in global health and international development

  Gro and Arne Brundtland

• Spouses and partners in the collective that eradicated smallpox

  Larry and Girija Brilliant

• Friends and cofounders of The Transpartisan Review

  Lawrence Chickering and Jim Turner

• Friends, public figures, and partners in empowering better global social conditions

  Lord Hastings of Scarisbrick CBE and Gloria Abramoff FRSA

• Spouses and cofounders of Not Impossible Labs and Not Impossible Foundation

  Mick and Caskey Ebeling

• Colleagues, friends, and partners in protecting the ozone layer

  Penelope Canan and Nancy Reichman

• Marine biologist, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, and founder of Mission Blue

  Sylvia Earle and the Ocean

• Spouses and partners in designing a better world

  Paul Bennett and Jim Cooper

• Friends and cofounders of Malaria No More

  Ray Chambers and Peter Chernin

• Friends and partners in peace and human rights

  Richard Branson and Peter Gabriel

• Family and activists for climate change and the new economy

  Robin Chase and Cameron Russell

• Brothers and cofounders of Golden Palm Investments

  Sangu, Edmund, and Banguu Delle

• Spouses and cofounders of Revive and Restore

  Stewart Brand and Ryan Phelan

Meet 65+ inspirational partnerships of all types, who built deep, meaningful connections that changed their lives and the lives of so many others for the better. Enjoy exploring their honesty, wisdom, love, laughter and wonder.