Cohorts Connect: Reflection Session

Cohorts Connect at Building Bridges 2025 introduces a two-part model for structured connection and reflection to conversation and networking. It is designed to support peer exchange, deepen shared understanding, and strengthen cross-sector collaboration in a way that feels purposeful, open, and human. While the approach does not intend to achieve specific goals, through mutual, multi-contextual learning it can create conditions that prime a system for change.

This Reflection Session brings the cohort journey full circle. It begins with a short keynote from a data scientist offering a reminder of why this work matters: a grounding in data, systems, and the shared responsibility to transform how finance interacts with nature, people, and the future.

From there, participants move into reflection tables using prompts and live polling (e.g. Mentimeter), the session surfaces what has shifted for participants over the course of the week.

Each table will be invited to share a key insight or commitment with the wider room, bringing visibility to what is emerging across the Building Bridges community. The focus is not on consensus, but on coherence: identifying where the energy is, where collaboration is forming, and what the network wants to grow next.

An application process to join Cohorts Connect at Building Bridges 2025 will be launched in July.