Anamaria Dorgo – Healing with Community (#040)

Don't Step on the Bluebells

What if the path to healing isn't a solitary journey, but one best traveled in community? In this transformative conversation, Amanda sits down with community building expert Anamaria Dorgo to explore how authentic community becomes a powerful vessel for personal transformation and healing. Anamaria, founder of the renowned L&D Shakers community, shares her revolutionary approach to creating spaces where people don't just connect—they discover missing pieces of themselves they didn't even know were lost.

Through her journey from feeling isolated as the only learning professional in her company to building a global community of thousands, Anamaria reveals the secrets of what makes community truly healing: distributed leadership, intentional experimentation, and the courage to let go of control. She introduces a beautiful definition of healing as "finding and incorporating missing pieces in yourself"—some you know are missing, others you discover along the way.

The most revolutionary insight? Community becomes your confidence laboratory—a safe sandbox where you can test out who you're becoming before stepping into that identity in the "real world." As Anamaria reveals, "I use community a lot to build confidence and power by doing things here in the safe space and sandbox so that I can see myself doing it, so that I can believe that I can do it."

Whether you're a healer looking to understand the power of collective transformation, an entrepreneur wanting to build meaningful community, or someone seeking deeper belonging, this episode offers profound insights into how we heal—and help others heal—together.

This isn't just about building online groups; it's about creating spaces where people can experiment with who they're becoming, find their tribe, and step into their power with confidence that ripples into every area of their lives. What missing pieces of yourself are you unknowingly searching for, and what would change if you stopped trying to find them alone?

How to Get in Touch with Anamaria:

• LinkedIn: Anamaria Dorgo
• L&D Shakers Community: Website

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Chapters

1. The Impact of Community Confidence (00:00:00)

2. Meeting Ana Maria and L&D Shakers (00:01:27)

3. Defining True Community (00:05:38)

4. Distributed Leadership in Communities (00:10:31)

5. The Origins of L&D Shakers (00:17:02)

6. Commitment and Creative Constraints (00:22:51)

7. Community as a Healing Space (00:38:38)

8. Finding Identity Through Community (00:50:27)

9. Starting Communities: Final Advice (01:00:18)