You Belong Here: The Power of Being Seen, Heard, and Valued on Your Own Terms
Kim Dabbs
Jan 2025 · Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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In a world overcrowded with labels, don't allow your identity to be defined by other people. Learn how to take back your power, choose to feed the aspects of your identity that serve you, and let go of those that don't.
Everyone feels like an outsider at some point in their life-when we walk into a room and think to ourselves, I don't belong here. To avoid these feelings of exclusion, many of us hide our authentic selves and allow others to define our identity.
You Belong Here offers a new framework that allows each of us to define how we want to be seen, heard, and valued on our own terms so we feel a sense of belonging in any situation. Further, it serves as a launchpad for organizational leaders and culture builders to create safe spaces for individuals to show up as their authentic selves.
Readers will explore our four identities:
When we fully leverage this and live with authenticity and purpose, we can be seen, heard, and valued in a way that gives us a sense of belonging at home, at work, and in society. Belonging is realized when we understand everyone is an outsider and it's the power to create space for those differences that unite us all.
Everyone feels like an outsider at some point in their life-when we walk into a room and think to ourselves, I don't belong here. To avoid these feelings of exclusion, many of us hide our authentic selves and allow others to define our identity.
You Belong Here offers a new framework that allows each of us to define how we want to be seen, heard, and valued on our own terms so we feel a sense of belonging in any situation. Further, it serves as a launchpad for organizational leaders and culture builders to create safe spaces for individuals to show up as their authentic selves.
Readers will explore our four identities:
- Our Lived Identity is made up of the aspects of our identity we inherit when we are born into the world.
- Our Learned Identity includes the parts of our identity that we've chosen or claimed as we make our way through the world.
- Our Lingering Identity is the identity we default to when we feel like an outsider and fall back into as a survival mechanism.
- Our Loved Identity is where we find our authentic selves and see ourselves through a lens of empowerment.
When we fully leverage this and live with authenticity and purpose, we can be seen, heard, and valued in a way that gives us a sense of belonging at home, at work, and in society. Belonging is realized when we understand everyone is an outsider and it's the power to create space for those differences that unite us all.
About the author
Kim Dabbs is a global leader in the area of Belonging and Purpose. As a thought leader, author, and speaker, she currently serves as the Global Vice President of ESG and Social Innovation at Steelcase. She has a passion for building cultures of belonging and is leveraging that mindset as she partners with organizations leading transformational change projects around the world. Her personal experience and professional history focus on helping leaders, organizations, and communities with the tools to create a more equitable and inclusive world. She’s given talks at MIT, the Aspen Institute, the Drucker Forum, Ford Fund, and The Conference Board. She is a Korean-born, American adoptee currently residing in Munich, Germany.
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