Research · Bay Area
We’re talking with congregations across the Bay Area about what they’re actually doing online — and what is and isn’t working. Everyone who takes part gets the findings before they’re public.
Interviews through September · Findings to participants shortly thereafter
Here’s a note you can paste into an email. Change anything you like.
Passing this along — a small Bay Area company is running a study on how congregations here are handling prayer online. They’re interviewing about 25 communities and everyone who takes part gets the findings before they’re published.
It’s 20 minutes on the phone. Details here: https://umunhumlabs.com/study
Not the right person?
Usually this is whoever looks after communications, the website, or the prayer list — sometimes a staff member, often a volunteer. If that’s someone else at your organization, passing this to them is the most helpful thing you can do.
The whole conversation, laid out as best as we can predict
Three areas for now. We have a few rough ideas in each, and we look forward to hearing what resonates with you.
We're a team based in sunny San José, California. We believe spiritual wellbeing is a fundamental human need. We build for people on their path through life. And we look forward to meeting you!
Joy Banerjee
Logistics and partnerships professional with experience in entrepreneurship. Economist by training, Executive MBA, and Bay Area resident for 25+ years. Proud dad, originally from Europe, with a knack for pondering life’s big questions and connecting the dots.
Tim Bonnemann
Longtime community architect and e-participation expert with 20+ years experience in the private and non-profit sector. Passionate about connecting people around shared purpose.
Twenty minutes on the phone, via video conference, or – logistics permitting – in person, at whatever time suits you. Either way, it starts with an email.
Making sense of the world together, rather than alone, is something people have always done. The forms vary enormously — across traditions, languages, and continents — but the need underneath doesn't. People still face things they can't resolve on their own, and still turn to each other to carry them. We're reminded of that daily. Mount Umunhum rises south of San José, in view from where we work — sacred ground to the Ohlone for thousands of years, and a reminder that what we're building is much older than we are. What's changed is that many communities and families are now spread out, across time zones or just across schedules that no longer line up. The tools are new. The need they serve is not.