Why

Dignity?

Because it’s the most important thing about you.

The working definition of Dignity I use is:

The intrinsic worth and value each being carries that cannot be taken away.

What’s your

origin story?


I love an origin story.

What's your origin story? When does "it" all begin? From a cosmic egg? From creation-filled words of an eternal entity? From the womb or a first memory? From a specific ancestor who seems close to you in spirit or gumption or personality?

Where do you begin?

I would argue that each of us has the same beginning to our origin story. We all have the same first line, the same starting point. Who your people are, the land that has feed you, the trees you've shared breath with, the food that would become comfort and the tongue that will become mother are all key parts of your beginnings and forming. But…there is a first line.

Actually, there is the inhale before you say the first line and the exhale as you start it...this is the same for each of us.

That breath is dignity.

There is no origin story without the first breath to begin telling it. The breath before the first line is the same regardless of what comes after, regardless of who is telling the story. Even to tell the story of the cosmic egg or creation-filled words, there is the breath of dignity preceding the story of beginning.


How you tell you story matters.

where you start matters.

  • Starting with Dignity will change the way you live. Dignity invites you to honor yourself, to honor others, and to honor every part of your story.

The Dignity Effect

The Dignity Effect is a boutique education firm specializing in

adult social emotional learning and workplace well-being.

The dignity EFfect

utilizes a three-tiered pathway to deepen your connection to Dignity through valuing wholeness.

Three-Tiered Pathway

  • Soul Care

    Letting Dignity Set Our Rhythms

    by

    Valuing the Whole Person

    A counter to “Work/Life Balance” and a response to burnout, Soul Care is where you gain tools and practices to center your dignity by engaging soul care: rhythms of prioritizing the nourishment of one's mental, spiritual, and emotional well-being.

  • relational legacy

    Letting Dignity Ground Our Relationships

    by

    Valuing the Whole Connection

    As you engage your own dignity, it becomes impossible to look across the table and not see the dignity of the ones with you. Relational Legacy focuses on four areas to create the beneficial impact of engaging your dignity and the dignity of others you’re in relationship with.

  • true north story mapping

    Letting Dignity Tell Our Stories

    by

    Valuing the Whole Narrative

    Our stories unfold across a diverse landscape, yet it’s easy to flatten our experiences. Mapping story on the landscape of dignity, Collective Story takes a deep dive into how you tell your individual and our collective story, seeking an honest survey of a wider, integrated narrative.

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