For leaders, entrepreneurs & creatives · 5 hours to build your community in 2026
Wonder Lab:
Build Your Brand Community for Impact, Belonging, & Enduring Delight
A live 5-hour workshop with practical frameworks to turn followers, clients, readers, or participants into a real community that returns, engages, and grows with you.
Quest Community | 50+ Countries | Published in Psychology Today | Next Big Idea Club Nominee | 10+ Years of Community Building
A Tracking Wonder Workshop · June 18, 2026
The WonderLab experience
— Let's Mend the Belonging Gap
We're hungry to connect in community. But how do you build one wisely — without burn out?
Maybe you yearn to build an engaged community around your business, startup, or creative project — but you don't want to stress out.
Maybe you hunger to build a community from your brand's existing followers, subscribers, or group offer participants — but you don't know where to start.
Maybe you want to do your part in mending the vast Belonging Gap around the globe.
"Social isolation may be the central challenge of our era."
The past few years have only heightened the Belonging Gap — the increasing feeling of isolation, loneliness, divisiveness, and desperate attempts to "fit in." Whatever your aims, you likely sense how challenging it can be to gain people's trust and interest to join and stay in your community.
Most smart, hard-working people hit one or more of these walls:
You're not clear on your own deep why for building a community.
You find it difficult to express why someone would want to join your community and toward what aims.
You sense that building a community is a mammoth undertaking beyond your capacity.
You might feel stuck in your own patterns instead of seeing new possibilities.
What if you already had the pieces to build a community and just needed the framework and time-tested tips to light you up to start?
What if you could make a plan with simple steps to test out building a community with what you have — not alone but in the company of other mindful change-makers?
And what if you could do so by fostering facets of wonder more than worry along the way?
This Wonder Lab is here for you.
Enter the WonderLab & start building your community.
Jeffrey guides you and other mindful change-makers through a time-tested, evidence-based process to clarify your community's deep why and story, identify who it is ideally for, select its best online home, and discover belonging practices that help a group become a genuine community.
Discover Your Community's Deep Why
Find the compelling invitation to join your community — the specific reason it needs to exist and why you're the one to build it.
Avoid the 3 Big Mistakes of Building Community
Learn what kills communities before they start — and how to sidestep every one of them.
Recognize Who Belongs — and How to Invite Them
Identify the people most likely to feel at home in your community and know exactly how to invite them in.
Apply the 3 Belonging Keys
Apply Jeffrey's research-backed Belonging Keys to your distinct community — the practices that make people stay.
Design for Inclusivity and Difference
Build a community that genuinely welcomes diverse perspectives and makes everyone feel they belong.
Create Community Guidelines in Your Voice
Write the guidelines that hold your community together — in a tone that sounds like you, not a terms-of-service document.
Start a Small, Low-Risk Community Experiment
Leave with a real first step you can launch this month — not a big plan, but a smart start.
Delight in the Process
Foster facets of wonder for community engagement — the ingredient no other framework on the planet includes at its center.
Why Start Here?
Rather than build a community the way you think you should, this framework shows you how to build one that only you or your brand could — and must.
Why Story?
Stories — more than stats — motivate us to change. When you discover a few key pieces of your brand community story, you stand in confidence to invite people in.
Why Experiment?
A small community experiment beats a "BIG PLAN" every time. You build momentum, see real wins, and avoid the burnout of a launch that never happens.
Why Wonder?
Wonder has a profound social dimension that alters how we relate and collaborate. No other community-building framework on the planet puts wonder at its center.
What Your Investment Gives You
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A powerful 5-hour virtual Wonder Lab
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Live engagement, coaching & real-time feedback
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Your Wonder Lab Field Guide + workbook
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Actionable tools to mend the Belonging Gap
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Support to create exponential impact — sooner
Substack Premium Members — 50% off
TWIC Members — 100% free
There is a magic that happens every time.
It's not every day that you get the opportunity to work with someone who has the pragmatism and wisdom of a business person and the creativity and expressiveness of an artist. Jeffrey helped us clarify our business plan, shape the compelling story of why we chose to create our product in the first place, identify our core values, define the core problem our business is solving — and brought us closer together as a team.
There is a magic that happens every time I work with Jeffrey, privately or in a group. After working with Jeffrey, I fulfilled my deep intention to have a greater impact on women's lives. The Beacons of Change community is now growing and thriving. I am now confident in fulfilling my mission and helping raise the vibration in the world, one person at a time.
A day designed to move — not sit and watch.
The workshop is an effortless flow of presentation, solo discovery & development, small group sharing, laser coaching, and celebration. Throughout the day, we use breakout rooms for mindful interaction and real connection.
Prime Your Mind & Heart
As soon as you register, you'll receive our elegantly designed and printable worksheets. You also get a pre-Lab assignment to arrive ready — not starting from zero.
Build, Share & Get Feedback
Jeffrey guides you through an evidence-based framework while you develop and share your ideas. Solo work, small group sessions, and live coaching — not a passive webinar.
Leave with a Real Plan
You'll close in celebration with a community experiment ready to launch. Your Wonder Lab Field Guide stays with you as a workbook to guide your progress beyond the day.
MEET THE CHIEF WONDER MAKER
Who is Jeffrey?
Thought leader strategist, teacher, and author Jeffrey Davis creates a brave, safe container for all participants to gain courage, confidence, and clarity. With the aid of Team TW, Jeffrey is the originator of such community-building experiences and events as the Tracking Wonder Quest Community with members from over 50 countries, the in-person Brand Artistry Labs immersives, Wonder@Work Academy, UNPLUGGED+UNBOUND Immersive Retreats, and the yearlong Tracking Wonder Inner Circle MasterMinds. Jeffrey works with and interviews creative innovators, social psychologists, and mindful leaders to discover how people flourish in times of rampant challenge and change.
His job is to make work, life, and creativity a little less worrisome and a lot more wondrous.
He has traveled widely to share his teachings on creative fulfillment, impactful work, and the beauty of living one’s own story with integrity. He writes for PsychologyToday.com, hosts the Tracking Wonder Podcast Show, and is author of four books, including the Next Big Idea Club Nominee Tracking Wonder: Reclaiming a Life of Meaning and Possibility in a World Obsessed with Productivity.
Mend the Belonging Gap. Gift Wonder. Build a Community this year.
Together we can do so much more for the greater good than alone.
Noon–6pm ET · 11am–5pm CT · 10am–4pm MT · 9am–3pm PT
5pm–11pm London · Friday June 19, 4am–10am Sydney
