OUR MISSION IS TO
ENHANCE COHESION IN YOUR TEAMS
We facilitate group workshops in your organization aiming to build bridges between individuals
by getting them see each other beyond their business functions within the company.
We immerse your employees in a world of non-verbal communication
to nurture their emotional and behavioral intelligence
and achieve better mutual trust and collaboration.
WHY SIGN&CONNECT
SIGN means Communicate with Hands
CONNECT means being plugged in with others
Sign&Connect has invented and developed a disruptive approach of
Soft Skills Development mixing Visual Thinking and Emotional Team Building and using Nonverbal Communication tools in the group.
We strive to have teammates:
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be connected and tuned in to each other
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feel comfortable in the group's dynamics and be on the same page
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free up space in their brains to generate innovative and powerful ideas.
Visual languages are a unique opportunity for the brain to take new paths to process information and to think differently, opening to a large spectrum of communication possibilities.
Body communication is an open door to break old habits and long-established routines to change the human relationship and boost the social connection.
BODY COMMUNICATION
ORIGINS
Sara Guérin-Panichi founded Sign&Connect in 2018 Princeton, NJ (USA).
She discovered the marvelous world of visual communication by first learning American Sign Language and later on getting to be involved in the Deaf Community.
Instead of seeing a barrier to communicate with deaf people, she saw there an opportunity to learn a new culture, to enlarge her acquaintance network and to get herself express her thoughts with the hands and face instead of spoken words.
She realized how powerful the visual and body communication can affect the relationship between two people, relating to their emotions and bringing out their authenticity and developed a new methodology to offer an innovative approach of Collaborative Working based on nonverbal communication.
This method calls upon body language, sign language and natural gestural language.
As Sara believes that life is a never-ending learning journey, she keeps on studying American Sign Language at the prestigious Gallaudet University in Washington DC and French Sign Language at the International Visual Theater in Paris.
