This guide explores belonging as both an inner practice and a leadership responsibility. It helps leaders reflect on how their presence, behaviors, and decisions shape the conditions for trust and inclusion. Through prompts on seeing through others’ eyes, listening deeply, clarifying expectations, and strengthening psychological safety, the guide supports leaders in welcoming new voices, integrating people with care, and sustaining belonging over time.

This month’s reflection guides explore belonging as both an inner practice and a leadership responsibility. This guide helps individuals navigate new beginnings by noticing what’s emerging, clarifying what belonging means personally, and taking small, grounding actions to root into a new place or chapter.

After moving back to the Shenandoah Valley, a mural reading “You Belong Here” sparked a reflection on what belonging really means when you’re starting fresh. Two months in, Angela shares that belonging isn’t automatic — even in a place you once called home. It’s built slowly through showing up, listening, connecting, and taking small steps to serve.

Her early experiences mirror what many leaders face in new roles: credibility isn’t something you arrive with; it’s something you grow through curiosity, consistency, and engagement. Leadership — like re-rooting — is a practice, and this season marks her very first planting stage.