CONNECT Association

✨ Giving Tuesday is here! ✨ A global day of generosity to support causes close to our hearts. At CONNECT Association, we’ve poured our passion into creating App-CONNECT—a tool to help people manage stress and life’s challenges. Available in three languages, it’s free and ad-free for everyone. But to keep it this way and make it even better, we need your help. 🌱 This Giving Tuesday, we’re asking for your support to maintain and grow this project. Here’s how you can help: ➡️ Support us on SwissDonations: https://lnkd.in/e8wAY_UB ➡️ Donate via Lokalhelden: https://lnkd.in/d7_VYcQT Every gesture counts and helps us make a difference in burnout prevention and mental well-being. Together, let’s create a healthier and more resilient world. 💙 Thank you for your generosity and for sharing our vision. 🙏 #GivingTuesday #MentalHealthSupport #CONNECTAssociation #SupportNonprofits FR: ✨ C’est Giving Tuesday ! ✨ Une journée mondiale pour soutenir des causes qui nous tiennent à cœur. Chez CONNECT Association, nous avons mis toute notre passion dans la création d’App-CONNECT—un outil pour aider chacun à mieux gérer le stress et les défis de la vie. Disponible en trois langues, l’application est gratuite et sans publicités. Mais pour que cela reste ainsi et pour continuer à l’améliorer, nous avons besoin de votre aide. 🌱 Ce Giving Tuesday, nous vous invitons à soutenir notre projet. Voici comment vous pouvez contribuer : ➡️ Soutenez-nous sur SwissDonations : https://lnkd.in/e8wAY_UB ➡️ Faites un don via Héros Locaux : https://lnkd.in/d7_VYcQT Chaque geste compte et nous aide à faire la différence en matière de prévention du burnout et de bien-être mental. Ensemble, construisons un avenir plus serein et résilient. 💙 Merci pour votre générosité et pour partager notre vision. 🙏 #GivingTuesday #SoutenezLaSantéMentale #CONNECTAssociation #SoutenezLesAssociations

Félicitations à toutes les formidables associations présentées ici ! 🎉 Si vous souhaitez soutenir la prévention du burnout et nous aider à maintenir l'App-CONNECT gratuite pour tous, nous serions infiniment reconnaissants de votre don à CONNECT Association https://lnkd.in/eGj56F8A. Ensemble, continuons à offrir cet outil essentiel pour promouvoir le bien-être et la résilience. 💙 Merci de contribuer à faire la différence !

CONNECT Association est heureux de faire partie du challenge de SwissDonations et vous remercie de votre soutien. Dernière ligne droite !!! #GivingTuesday #SwissDonations #soutien #AppCONNECT

Discover the App-CONNECT menu section : https://lnkd.in/ejxM9ugD Donate to help us keep it free of charge : fundraisers: Héros Locaux : https://lnkd.in/d7_VYcQT Swiss Donations : https://lnkd.in/ewHcW5st

Discover App-CONNECT : https://lnkd.in/eXvS76Rg Donate to help us keep it free of charge : fundraisers:  https://lnkd.in/d7_VYcQT  https://lnkd.in/eGj56F8A

Looking to support a local non-profit this year-end? CONNECT Association, based in Châtel-St-Denis, is making a real impact! 🌍✨ What we do: Over 40 dedicated volunteers created App-CONNECT to help people better manage stress and life’s challenges. Free and ad-free, this app is designed to support you when you need it most. Why donate? Keeping the app free and improving features like notifications, a chatbot, and daily motivation requires funding. How to help: Choose from our two active fundraisers: 👉 https://lnkd.in/d7_VYcQT 👉 https://lnkd.in/eGj56F8A Join us to build a calmer, stronger future for everyone! 🌐 Apple: https://shorturl.at/asPRS 🌐 Android: https://rb.gy/vu6cg Thank you for supporting our mission! #donation #givingtuesday #swissdonations #heroslocaux #give #nonprofit #connect #appconnect #generosity

Dans une société en quête de mieux-être, App-CONNECT offre un espace de prévention contre le stress et l'épuisement. En cette fin d’année, soutenez un projet d'utilité publique en participant à notre campagne de financement participatif ! Chaque don fait la différence ! https://lnkd.in/d7_VYcQT #AppCONNECT #Soutien #Bienêtre #HérosLocaux https://lnkd.in/eKd8kc62

Who is behind CONNECT ? Hi everyone! Today, I want to share a little bit about who’s behind CONNECT Association and App-CONNECT . I’m Karin Kneubühl. My husband Alejandro and I created CONNECT Association back in June 2019. We had a big goal in mind: to create an app that could help people recognize when they might need to make a change or ask for help—before reaching a breaking point. This vision didn’t come out of nowhere. In 2001, I went through my own intense journey: a big breakdown, burnout, and depression, after years of trying to keep myself going without knowing how to handle my emotions or even how to talk about them. All my energy went into "doing" and "helping," while ignoring my own limits. Years later, as I began healing, I dreamed of a tool that could help others recognize those early signs of distress and get support. Fast forward to 2019: I sketched out a prototype on Proto-IO and began reaching out to developer companies worldwide. The quotes were staggering—anywhere from 0.5 to 1 million CHF. I remember thinking, "This is totally crazy!" But the idea stuck. I was determined to make it happen, so I found https://lnkd.in/eHJEp9rX for crowdfunding and https://lnkd.in/e_eyVV5n to recruit volunteers, and we started taking small steps. In February 2020, our first volunteers joined the team—two psychologists, who believed in the mission and wanted to help. That’s when things truly started to feel even more right, since they confirmed that the idea would really make prevention. Though my husband and I were living in Mexico at the time, María in Switzerland and Sandra in France, we started making Zoom team-meetings. More volunteers joined quickly and were scattered across Switzerland, but we made it work. Google provides free Workspace for nonprofits, which enables us to store everything in DRIVE and work together at distance easier. I’ll never forget those early Zoom meetings…, or for example when three of our designers met in Zürich (Juliana, Stephanie and Nagore) and connected me via video to brainstorm, showing me what they had come up with and sharing their excitement. Between meetings we would... ...read more in the next comment and it's 2 replies, I couldn't fit it here. ;-) #appconnect #connect #nonprofit #benevolejobs #volunteers #team #teamwork #makeithappen #thankful #swissdonations #localhelden

C'est parti ! Pour maintenir notre App-CONNECT gratuite et l'améliorer, nous avons besoin de votre soutien. Participez à la collecte de fonds, et aidez-nous à partager les liens pour les collectes de fonds de CONNECT ce serait génial 🤩. Les voici : SwissDonations FR, DE, EN : https://lnkd.in/eJYTWDBM Héros Locaux FR: https://lnkd.in/eE2TnqQS DE: https://lnkd.in/edQ6erhN Merci pour votre soutien. Excellente semaine ! Et souhaitez-nous succès ☺️🙏🏻 #collectesdefonds #crowdfunding #nonprofitorganization #association #connect #soutien #helpingothers #donations #appconnect #swissdonations #localhelden

Who I am and why App-CONNECT ? App-CONNECT exists, because we all have a past and life challenges. Hi, my name is Karin Kneubühl Chavez V. I founded the CONNECT Association with my husband Alejandro back in 2019. CONNECT Association is a Swiss non profit organization that created App-CONNECT with more than 40 volunteers over the years. As an abuse survivor, when I was a teenager I struggled with self esteem, to know what I want in life, to see my strength and the reasons to be alive. I would try to “fit-in”, to adapt myself to the others, in order to feel accepted by them. Doing and serving without respecting my own boundaries. After years of not listening to myself in my personal and professional life, I pushed myself until a burnout in 2001, suffering depression and anxiety. Going through these dark and difficult years of my life, with the support of friends and family, my faith, personal development training and of course medical follow up for about three years, I could rest my body and soul, heal from many hurts of my past and grow stronger building my resilience. Since I found the light back in my life, I had the deep will to help others avoid this dark place and started thinking about how to prevent so many of us to push ourselves to the limits of our strength. So much pressure we put on our shoulders and so much sadness focusing our sight on the things that hurt us and steal our joy. I learnt that life is for us, not against us. That we are stronger than we think, just like our ancestors, capable of overcoming challenges when we realize our needs on time and ask for help. But we often have the wrong perspective, the wrong focus, a twisted mindset, misbeliefs or we miss the right tools and support around us. This is why the idea of App-CONNECT emerged and grew in my heart. A safe and anonymous place of support for everyone. A place where we can share without feeling judged, where we can be there for each other, encourage each other and grow together. Learn how to improve and strengthen our resilience and when to say STOP and nurture our hearts. Realize that what we have gone through in our own life can help someone else to avoid the same hurts and suffering. That by being part of something bigger than just our own life, our focus changes, our motivation grows and our resilience gets stronger too. Life becomes better and we can now move from a survival mode to a living life mode. I will explain more about the App-CONNECT and its functionalities in another post. For now, CONNECT to the good, within and around you every day. Take care of yourself. You are worth it 🤗 and the world will be a better place with you following your heart and sharing your dreams with others. Karin Website : https://lnkd.in/eeEK9eZs