Become a certified Connection Architect with Plus Wonder’s Six Degrees of Connection™—a life-tested framework distilled from 20+ years of study and 2,200+ years of wisdom from model partnerships of purpose (familial, romantic, civic, educational, and organizational).
This fully subsidized, asynchronous certification helps you move from Connection Explorer to Connection Architect by deep-diving into each of the Six Degrees and implementing them in your real context—classroom, team, organization, or community.
Get Started Earning Badges
Each degree module honors your prior knowledge and guides you to plan, implement, and reflect:
👥 Short primers & stories from model partnerships
📘 Connection Architect Toolkits of practical activities
💭 Planning prompts tailored to your setting
📝 Submission forms that double as your implementation plan
📚 Examples curated into a growing community resource library
Perfect for educators (6–12, higher ed), instructional designers/coaches, training leaders, youth facilitators, and community organizers.
Also powerful for parents, team leads, nonprofit managers, faith and civic leaders, and anyone seeking to strengthen relationships and collaboration.
🪪 Connection Architect title & shareable certification
⭐ Digital badges for each degree to boost profile
🤙🏽 Bi-monthly calls with fellow Architects for enrichment
📇 Visibility via Plus Wonder storytelling and recognition
📖 First access to tools, events, and new learning resources
Choose any degree, complete the short deep dive, and submit your plan to earn a badge. Go 1→6 or jump around. This process is self-paced. Start now!
Pilot your plan (in part or whole). Capture evidence of impact (artifacts, photos, reflections, before/after indicators). Got questions?
Submit your experience and evidence demonstrating knowledge, skills, and competency. Upon approval, you’ll receive your Six Degrees of Connection™ Certification and Connection Architect title. Badged and ready to certify?
💡 Knowledge: Clear definitions/interpretations for each degree/virtues
💪🏽 Skills: Reframing and contextualizing degrees for your environment
✅ Competency: Modeling framework and scaffolding experiences that measurably deepen connection
Thanks to donor support, all modules and the certification process are free.
Plan ~1.5 hours per badge (six total). Implementation time varies by context. The certification application follows once you’ve gathered evidence.
Yes—six badges plus evidence-informed implementation are prerequisites for certification.
Educators and subject-matter experts review for:
You’ll receive clear feedback and are invited to resubmit after strengthening your plan or evidence. Coaching is available.
You’ll receive digital badges and the Connection Architect credential. Many participants include these in CVs, performance reviews, and professional portfolios. (PD/CEU recognition varies by organization or state; check local requirements.)
Certification is valid for the current calendar year and the next. Renewal includes a brief reflection and evidence of continued practice.
It’s asynchronous and unproctored, designed for global access and equity.
We honor your consent preferences. With permission, strong exemplars may be adapted into a community resource library to inspire future Architects.
🧑🏽⚖️ We maintain clear eligibility, digital badging, renewal, and conduct policies; NDAs are available when needed. A cross-functional team continuously improves content, reviews standards, and sustains program integrity.
Lift your purpose
100% have each other’s back.
A moral ecosystem of virtues.
Build your shared history.
Turn conflict into learning opportunities
Scaled collaboration
Earn a badge for each of the Six Degrees of Connection™ and put your plans into action. Once you gain experience building deep connections, share that experience with us to become certified.
Questions? education@pluswonder.org
