Bringing people and ideas together, across divides, to create a care-centered world
We are living at a time of rapid change and crisis.
This leads to anxiety and concern-emotions that often spiral into mistrust, polarization, and entrenched social and political conflicts. It doesn’t have to be this way.
CARE LAB works with allies across the political spectrum to deliver interventions.
Using lessons learned from scientific research, case studies, and decades of bridge-building work, we bring people together for bipartisan experiences that build common ground and support the caring and collaborative approach we need to ensure the well-being of our families, our country, and the planet.
Who we are
CARE LAB is women-founded and run by a team with deep international, congressional, research, and advocacy experience. After decades of work building bridges between the United States, Cuba, and other Latin American countries, we are turning all we’ve learned about trust, listening, and the curation of transformative experiences to bear on the urgent challenges we face in the United States.
What we do
CARE LAB is launching an unprecedented effort to build a resilient, caring, and bipartisan core of leaders on Capitol Hill and beyond. We are creating a new model for US Congressional field tours, designing unconventional professional development opportunities for Congressional staff, and using the science of care to create safe spaces for difficult conversations and deep encounters with constituents.
Three Dinners Reaches Half the Senate
CARE LAB is delighted to announce that we have reached half of the U.S. Senate with our Three Dinners programming. The bipartisan cohorts that have gone through our series run the gamut of political spectrum in the Senate. What they have in common is an interest in moving beyond high conflict and toward care practices.
Listen to “Survival Skills.”
The first episode of our podcast features a conversation among john a. powell, Dr. Tania Singer and CARE LAB founder Sarah Stephens on expanding our circles of tolerance and compassion. Available on apple podcasts, spotify and stitcher.
Watch our roundtable on care.
Co-hosted by the Atlantic Institute at Rhodes House, the event features Dr. Bev Skeggs, Dr. Daybel Pañellas, and Saida Ali in a conversation about interdependence and the structure of care.