Care Lab’s Senate Chiefs delegation to Utah brought Chiefs in conversation with a cross section of people, places, and issues.

Eight new members have joined Care Lab’s board, with a mission to take the organization to the next level.

Care Lab graduates fifth cohorts - a series for US Senate Chiefs of Staff.

According to Rachel Brown, if you want to protect against group-targeted violence, you have to change the way leaders communicate, and shift the narratives we tell ourselves and each other about our identities.

CARE LAB is delighted to announce receipt of a first-time grant from the Hewlett Foundation, which joins Stand Together, The Fetzer Institute, Civic Health, and the Christopher Reynolds Foundation in partnering with us to build more caring, collaborative leadership.

CARE LAB has reached half of the U.S. Senate with our bi-partisan programming designed to address the growing threats of toxic polarization and political violence.

Former gang leader Curtis Toler’s lived experience is worlds apart from that of most congressional leaders and staff. And yet, when he joined Care Lab in Washington D.C. for our first “201” event - neither he nor the Senate Chiefs he spoke with flinched at the suggestion that they have something in common.

This fall, with the midterm elections approaching, CARE LAB fast-tracked efforts to create a space for Senate staff leaders to counter divisiveness and othering.

Three Dinners cohort two kicked off in September 2022 with a conversation on the risk factors for “high conflict,” and ways to shift them to “good conflict.”

On a rainy evening in October 2021, ten of the most powerful congressional staff members—five Republicans and five Democrats—joined us for an evening focused on belonging and bridging. They serve some of the deepest blue and red states from all regions of the country.

On September 20, 2021 a bipartisan group of 12 Senate Chiefs of Staff took a much-needed break from policy and politics to participate in the first of Care Lab’s inaugural Three Dinners series.