Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

Holding Space: The Power of True Community 💛

8 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment, Danielle Ralston recounts a recent coaching call where a community member arrived in distress. Although participants typically juggle multiple tasks during calls, everyone instinctively paused their multitasking and collectively held space for the person in need. No formal direction from the head coach was required; the group intuitively offered focused attention, shared energy, and emotional support. Ralston emphasizes how this shared presence created a powerful, supportive conversation, highlighting the community’s ability to sense and reciprocate each other's energy in critical moments.

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And I think something that's really cool is we had— I can't remember if it was last week, last month, whenever it was. We had somebody really hurting in our community and they came into a coaching call. And we all, we all usually are busy working on a million things during the coaching call and multitasking because that's how we get things done. And we all just stopped and held space for her. And I didn't have to ask anybody to do that as the head coach or anything like that. Just people Stopped and held space for each other. And the conversations were just amazing to support this person because we understand and we feel each other's energy. We support each other's energy and we give the energy back that is needed in those moments.