Christa Tipton LCSW's Linkedin Analytics

I'm a Social Behaviorist using complementary high-tech and low-tech solutions for a solution to the epidemic of loneliness. With a jigsaw puzzle?! YES! This patent-pending puzzle is designed to improve talk therapy, community building and connection. We're a new social enterprise bringing this puzzle tool to the market - join us on this journey! For each puzzle sold, a puzzle will be provided to organizations and individuals who serve under-resourced people. Humans deserve to feel connected to themselves and to each other. Contracts available for training, public speaking, and consulting. With a decade in crisis social work and over two decades in tech, I identify barriers and strengths, then provide practical solutions to improve human design, user experience, and team success. Change management is the most important component; a company is only as good as the psychological safety of their people. "Clear is kind." - Brene Brown At Puzzle Connector, we observe and ask intuitive questions to build data. Then we utilize existing human capital and fill in with other experts. If we don't know something, we know how to find out. We build quick rapport and trust for psychological safety, honest feedback, and innovation. Relational trauma requires relational healing. When asked how many people he helped, Fred "Mister" Rogers replied, “I don’t care how many, even if it’s just one. We get so wrapped up in numbers in our society and the most important thing is that we are able to be one to one, you and I, with each other at the moment. If we can be present to the moment, with the person that we happen to be with at the moment, that’s what’s important." AND we also need policy, research, and funding that is well-informed and empathetic. The best teams are not homogenous. "...work that builds bridges between disparate pieces of knowledge is less likely to be funded, less likely to appear in famous journals, more likely to be ignored upon publication, and then more likely in the long run to be a smash hit in the library of human knowledge.” - David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World Top 5 VIA Strengths are Love of Learning, Social Intelligence, Curiosity, Justice/Fairness, and Leadership.