Hugr Authentic Connections

Begin your journey to growing and maintaining authentic connections

Build connections that foster your personal growth and emotional support through your own unique journey. With Hugr Authentic Connections, you can share your experiences and feelings with those that matter most.

See how one user, Jasmine, navigated through her personal journey:

Why social connections matter

Mental wellness can be split into the following three pillars each with contributing factors. An imbalance of one results in decreased wellness.

Physical Health

Sleep

Rest

Food

Mental Fitness

Resiliency

Coping

Mindfulness

Social Connections

Others

Work

Self

Humans are genetically wired to need social connections. Like food and water, when this need is not being met, it is a threat to a persons' well-being. The absence of meaningful social connections is painful.

How do you use Hugr?

Check-in daily to build self-awareness

Explore your current social connection strengths and opportunities for growth and action.

Discover evidence-based tools and skills for social connection

Develop a set of tools to close social connection gaps and maintain Authentic Connections for mental wellbeing.

Track daily and view trends over time

Track and view trends on everything from your mood, social connection charge, and experience at work to activities, feelings and medications.

Share with the people closest to you

Invite the caring, trusted people in your life to support your mental wellbeing journey by sharing your progress and current mental wellness status.

Discover techniques to identify loneliness and isolation

Feeling empty and hollow inside, invisible, unloved, or resentful

Feeling physically and emotionally unwell

Feeling disconnected from self or others

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Suffering emotionally when thinking about social connections gaps

Feeling not worthy or unable to have meaningful relationships

Compensating for emotional discomfort through distractions, like hiding in work

Before COVID-19, 20-25 percent of the population experienced some form of isolation and loneliness. COVID-19 only amplified the negative impact gaps in authentic connections can have on a person’s mental health.

How does Hugr help employees and businesses?

For employees

Hugr Authentic Connections works for everyone - no matter where they are on their mental well-being journey
Gives employees the skills to develop engaging and meaningful social connections in support of their mental well-being
When bad days happen, they have easy access to integrated support and tools
Normalizes the importance of personal mental well-being and reduces stigma
Helps employees forge psychologically safe and meaningful social connections at work and at home

For businesses

Promoting Hugr Authentic Connections demonstrates a timely commitment to employee well-being — particularly while we're experiencing unprecedented stress and social isolation
Employees will develop new knowledge and skills and feel a greater sense of connection at work, resulting in higher engagement, retention, productivity and performance
Hugr Authentic Connections is a valuable, evidence-based addition to their workplace well-being toolkit that will proactively support all employees

Co-designed with lived experience, industry expertise and research

Hugr Authentic Connections is the product of lived experience by the members of Territorial, a Canadian tech company with 16 years experience developing digital solutions and Dr. Bill Howatt, Founder and President of Howatt HR. He is one of Canada’s renowned experts in mental health in the workplace and author of The Cure For Loneliness. This collaboration has been combined with the industry expertise and knowledge of Workplace Safety and Prevention Services, Canada’s largest health and safety association.