Living Impact: Elos Study and Methodology
How the GSA transforms people, bonds, and communities around the world.
We are experiencing a global and silent crisis: loneliness, mistrust, anxiety, profound apathy, and lack of prepared leadership.
These symptoms weaken both people's lives and our collective capacity to face challenges - in territories, companies, or in our personal lives.
33%
Only 33% of Brazilian youth have high self-esteem
UNICEF, 2022
1/6
1 in 6 people in the world experiences frequent loneliness
WHO, 2023
11%
Only 11% of Brazilians trust most people
Ipsos, 2022
We believe that the Elos Methodology can be a resource and a solution for this fragmented and apathetic world. We've been training people and collecting impactful stories for 26 years.
This study confirms in data what we saw in the field: the Elos Methodology strengthens the potential of individuals, teaches how to weave communities, dispels polarizations, and revives the capacity to dream and achieve collectively.
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Study Objective
Understanding, with real data and voices, how to learn the Elos Methodology, in the GSA, impacts lives.
The study seeks not only to record results, but to legitimate the power of the methodology with partners, to strengthen the internal learning of the Elos Institute and to expand its relevance in global debates on social innovation, trust, and community regeneration.
Our Insights
Potential
Rekindling the flame of Potential is urgent.
When potential recedes, there is a ripple effect of the crisis: talents don't flourish, dreams are delayed, and collaboration is rarefied.
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Feeling of more appreciation and generosity, rather than judgment.
I gain awareness of my talents and how I can contribute.
I feel like I have the power and freedom to do what I believe in.
Giuliana do Vale Milani
Environmental Educator
GSA 2017
“It gave me more confidence both personally and professionally.”
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Potential
While the market requires resilience, purpose, and the ability to collaborate. The question that remains is: how to awaken individual and collective potential in the face of this scenario?
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In a community, belonging is transformation.
When belonging breaks down, the social fabric weakens: support networks disappear, trust crumbles, and loneliness paralyzes collective action.
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It gave me tools to build communities.
I feel more committed to my values and ethics.
I'm more comfortable being who I am in the spaces I frequent.
João Pedro de Oliveira
GSA 2023
“I highlight the affection and the appreciative look. Affection creates connection with other people and invites care; an appreciative eye trains our gaze to go beyond the superficial. We began to see the best in someone or somewhere, without forgetting the importance of celebrating achievements and unity. It was an impactful experience.”
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Belonging
While the world isolates and mistrusts itself, how can we rebuild belonging and community?
Discover how the GSA transforms feeling into a network.
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From apathy to action. Lead changes that remain.
When leadership does not flourish, initiatives diminish, apathy grows and the future ceases to be built in common.
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Today, I believe that I am capable of leading real changes around me.
I started to act thinking more about the collective impact.
I took more initiatives to transform the spaces in which I operate.
Julie Regine Cassoni Ojeda
Social Worker
GAS 2022
“In my community work, whether in Vila Esperança or in my own territory, I realize that the experience expanded the possibilities for action. I also produced the anthology 'Coloring the Quebrada', inspired by the Elos Methodology.”
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Protagonism
Problems exist, but is apathy greater than action?
The GSA shows that leadership can be learned and practiced.
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Career transformation and way of leading.
In a world that still confuses leadership with authority, the GSA shows in practice that leading is listening, trusting, and walking together.
Additionally, for many participants, the GSA was a professional game-changer.
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I began to exercise leadership with more listening, sensitivity, and collective awareness.
I started to act thinking more about the collective impact of my choices.
They made a career transition.
Gabriel Marmentini
Social Entrepreneur
GSA 2014
“In life, I became a better human being: more attentive, present, loving, and decisive. On the professional side, the experience helped me organize the ideas to found ACBG Brazil, as I adopted the Elos Philosophy as a guideline — and I used that same framework in Politize! too.”
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Career & Leadership
To lead is to listen, collaborate, and inspire. How to learn this?
Discover how the GSA forms leaders and changes careers.
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Transform relationships and build community.
The GSA transforms bonds into community practice: each person learns to build living collectives, resolve conflicts constructively, and sustain collaborative networks.
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The methodology gave me tools to build communities
I feel more committed to my values and ethics.
I learned to deal with conflicts more constructively and without breaking ties.
Rinesh Raghoenath
Teacher and Coach
GSA 2011
“Participating in the GSA provided me with a deep sense of community and connected me to the deepest parts of our humanity. I wasn't aware of this at the time, but a few years later I started to value the GSA even more and I was able to recognize and appreciate its real impact.”
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Relations
Loneliness grows, trust disappears. How to rebuild links? Discover how the Elos Methodology regenerates relationships.
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Clarity about value and personal boundaries.
In a world that pushes people to exhaustion, the GSA teaches them to recognize limits and to expand the notion of value. This clarity strengthens self-esteem and conscious choices.
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I started to take better care of myself, my limits, and my energy.
I broadened my view of value: of what I can offer and what I can receive fairly.
I began to look at money as a tool of achievement, not of scarcity.
Juliana Bortolani
Commercial Manager
GSA 2024
“That looking inside is the best way out, that the collective is the key to dreaming. Recognition of limits, that affection, love, care, and welcome are necessary in any relationship.”
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