Connect your people like never before so they move mountains
Your team is made up of unique gems with different experiences, challenges, and strengths. Djembe helps build the trust and safety needed to take risks, solve hard problems, and move forward together.
A space to encourage honest conversations
A space where people feel safe to be real
A space where everyone belongs
A space where trust can grow
An introduction to the Djembe experience in a box
Belonging isn't a statistic,
It's a feeling!
It's how safe people feel to speak and to listen.
It's what makes us resilient, innovative, and human.
So how do you build that at your work, school or community?
Djembe: Inspiring Inclusive Connections
Honor your tribe's unique brilliance!
Build
Trust
Deep Connections
Conversations designed to help people move beyond surface talk and develop real understanding, respect, and trust.
Every Voice Matters
Inclusive
Designed so every voice matters — not just the loudest or most confident in the room.
At Any
Time
Convenient
Use Djembe in team meetings, onboarding, retreats, leadership sessions, or moments of tension. Fifteen minutes or ninety. Perfect for all occasions!
Without Pressure
Fun & Emotionally Safe
Djembe creates structure that makes difficult conversations feel human, grounded, and safe — not forced or performative.
Trust & connection, built into your culture
- Stronger listening
- Greater self-awareness
- Higher trust between colleagues
- More stable, connected teams
- Better collaboration under pressure
What teams notice when trust starts to grow
What a fantastic experience! Djembe has become an important part of building our organization’s culture. The cards offer fun, accessible, and meaningful ways to connect with colleagues that build greater understanding of who we are and where we come from.
Vice President for Community
Impact Austin Community Foundation
How to build trust, connection, and belonging
with the Djembe deck
My experience was amazing. Djembe gets people talking about various differences, learning how to self-reflect, and tuning into feelings. Djembe is an invaluable tool I use regularly in committee meetings with faculty, staff and students to bridge the conversations and foster transformative and sustainable diversity, equity, and inclusion change.
Talking to one another and understanding each other's perspectives is an important part of building community. Djembe provides a great tool for learning about ones' lived experiences through story telling. The more we listen and share our own stories, the greater empathy and unity there will be between all us as we continue to build relationships in this wonderful community.
It was so inspiring. Having dialogue and getting to know other people's perspectives is an important part of building community. Djembe is such a great tool to help understand each other better and build relationships, connections, and empathy. The more we listen, learn, and share our stories with one another, the more united, inclusive, and BRAVE we are as a community.
A space to encourage honest conversations
A space where people feel safe to be real
A space where everybody belongs
A space where trust can grow
About Djembe
Origin Story
Rooted & Radiant: This is Djembe
A Celebration of What We Value Most
We’re here for honest connection—wherever you are, wherever we gather.
Djembe was born from firelight conversations, shared stories, and the rhythm of cultural truth.
We don’t track points. We track growth.
We don’t gamify belonging. We build it.
This is joy without cruelty.
Depth without dread.
Laughter without the wince.
Djembe exists because most workplaces teach people how to perform — not how to connect. We believe trust is the foundation of strong teams, stability, and real belonging. Without it, strategy fails. Culture erodes. People leave.
The Djembe (pronounced jem-bey) is a drum believed to have been invented, or at least popularized, over 2,000 years ago by a Mandinka caste of West African blacksmiths known as Numu.
According to the Bambara people in Mali, the name of the Djembe comes from the saying “Anke djé, anke bé” which roughly translates in English to “everyone gathers together in peace.”
Djembe occupies a special place in West African history. Unlike other instruments which required certain caste or hereditary requirements to play in public, the Djembe was a true instrument of the people. Anyone could play, no matter who you were, where you came from, or what your skill level. And everyone would gather and listen.
In crafting Djembe, we wanted to harken back to that same traditional experience: all are welcome, all may gather, and all will listen.
Djembe is a box of cards, to be sure, yet it is importantly not a game. It is an instrument, through which you will hear and truly experience other people in the circle with you as never before. Each card is specially placed and written to draw you all closer together, cultivate meaningful connections, bridge cultural divides, and create an open, peaceful space for belonging to take hold.
Once you leave the Djembe, you may find you see yourself and the community you created in whole new ways. One thing’s for certain: after you Djembe, your soul will be forever altered ever so slightly, and you won’t be able to wait to call the Djembe together again and again.