About Humanize
In a world where people are hyper-linked by technology but experiencing increasing rates of stress, loneliness, anxiety, and polarization, Humanize was founded in 2021 with a mission: Bringing scalable practices and technology to people, that addresses the “disconnection from ourselves, others, and humanity.”
Who we are
A global safe and healthy digital platform for individuals and companies that uses healthy digital technology and evidence-based training to address the challenges of social disconnection in the modern era.
What we do
The core offering is the “Daily Dyad,” a brief 15 min daily practice of sharing and empathetic listening with another person, held online. Scientific research has shown that the daily Dyad practice builds an array of social and emotional capacities including resilience, well-being, emotional awareness, empathy, and compassion.
Why we do it
Our participants report 97% satisfaction with the Humanize Dyads, which are proven to strengthen resilience, improve mental health, build social skills and relational well-being.
Why Humanize?
We live in a time of constant online “connection” but we face a lack of real connection to ourselves and others.
- 61% of Americans report feeling lonely (Cigna 2020)
- 72% experience health impacts due to stress (APA 2022)
- Trust in others is at its lowest level in 40 years (Gallup 2021)
Humanize was created as a compassionate response to challenges and suffering of our modern world. In a world where people are hyper-linked but experiencing increasing rates of stress, loneliness, anxiety, and polarization, Humanize takes a unique approach: utilizing healthy technology to cultivate real connection through short partner-based mental practices — the Humanize Dyads.
The Humanize Dyads reconnect people with themselves, others and humanity and help strengthen resilience and social capacities such as empathy, compassion and social connectedness.
97% of our Dyad Program participants are very satisfied and would recommend the program. Are you ready to join the practice today?
The Science behind Humanize
Humanize was founded in 2021 with the goal of bringing the Humanize Dyads into the world to reconnect humanity. Humanize Dyads and the Foundation Dyad Program are science-based and largely inspired by seminal research by the Max Planck Institute’s Social Neuroscience Lab, in one of the largest scientific mental training studies, the ResourceProject (Singer et al., 2016, Kok & Singer, 2017) and more recently the 9-week online curriculum from the CovSocial project (Godaraet al., 2021). Based on the ancient practice of dyad in the Zen tradition and then in the Satori programs, Humanize has adapted and further developed these research-based practices. The aim of the company is scalably addressing social crises around well-being, resilience, social isolation, and social cohesion.
Peter Bonanno, Director of Curriculum and Teacher Training for Humanize.
Franziska Schmitt, Program Director
Elena Antonova, Scientific Advisor
Olga Klimecki, Scientific Advisor
Jessica Welik, Program Assistant
