Ep. 194: Dr. Bobbi Wegner on Teamwork and Raising Children with More Awareness
Description:
Dr. Bobbi Wegner, Founder and CEO of Groops, talks with us about the importance and benefits of working in groups and growing together. She also discusses the best way to talk (age-appropriately) with your kids about consent, empathy, gender, and sexual responsibility.
More on Dr. Bobbi Wegner and Groops:
Website: www.drbobbiwegner.com
Website: www.joingroops.com
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Quotes:
Groups are living, breathing relationships that need care and cultivation. We help people do that. Bobbi Wegner
When we feel more connected to our group, we feel better; the team works better. Bobbi Wegner
There's always someone whose voice is not heard. Look around at who's not being included and why. And then, what can you do to actually include that person? Bobbi Wegner
Show Notes:
Bobbi Wegner: Groups are living, breathing relationships that need care and cultivation, and we kind of help people do that.
Bobbie Wegner: We built a platform, a custom platform for strangers to come together with a ‘Groop Guide’, a guided facilitator, and talk about shared issues.
Bobbi Wegner: Everybody's feeling this disconnection and they're seeing it with high turnover, disengagement, lack of satisfaction, and people are leaving. But the thing that they're really missing is connection and purpose and strong relationships.
Bobbi Wegner: Just like a family. We have our own unique dynamic. And so let's understand it.
Bobbi Wegner: Culture is really safety and belonging and trust. How do we build things like vulnerability and to deepen relationships and connection?
Bobbi Wegner: When we feel more connected to our group, we feel better, the team works better.
Bobbi Wegner: We're focusing on feeling valued and belonging and communication.
Bobbi Wegner: Deepening connection and building relationships is what helps keep people around.
Bobbi Wegner: Quality of our life is determined by the quality of our relationships.
Bobbi Wegner: Most of what I do is driven by what I'm experiencing or kind of like a personal curiosity, and then I mash it up with psychology.
Bobbi Wegner: One in five women are victims of rape, like not just sexual assault or sexual harassment.
Bobbi Wegner: Our children are absorbing information that are well beyond what the parents are offering.
Bobbi Wegner: Kids are active people fumbling their way through life, just like all of us.
Bobbi Wegner: I think what it comes down to, is creating a safe, trusting place where children feel like they can come to you.
Bobbi Wegner: For safety and belonging, we put people into buckets in our mind because our brain is always looking for the path of least resistance.
Bobbi Wegner: We pull on past messaging, past experience to categorize people.
Bobbi Wegner: We're wired for biases based on our cognitive schemas. And then the way we do that is not to feel bad about it, to be curious about it and change the way we're thinking.
Bobbi Wegner: We tend to live in communities where people are like us and then we don't have exposure to other people.
Bobbi Wegner: There's always someone whose voice is not heard on the playground, in the classroom. So just look around like who's not being included here and why. And then what can you do to actually include that person?
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