We are a social enterprise providing

award-winning products and programmes

for interfaith, interracial, and intercultural diversity.


We are a social enterprise providing award-winning products and programmes for interfaith, interracial, and intercultural diversity.

Helping multicultural communities grow resilience

We offer supportive tools & meaningful programmes that nurture social cohesion, harmony & belonging.

Innovating in the space of diversity, equity & inclusion

We specialise in the sensitive yet significant spheres of interfaith, interracial & intercultural dialogue.

Consulting on ESG social sustainability projects

We work with corporate organisations, religious communities, educational institutions & government agencies.

Industry-Wide ICCS2022 Recognition

We are blessed to have our sensitive work formally recognised at the prestigious International Conference for Cohesive Societies, held recently in Singapore.

Two of our projects were honoured with public accolades by government leaders Mdm. Halimah Yacob, President of the Republic of Singapore, and Mr. Edwin Tong, Minister for Culture, Community, and Youth during the industry-wide gathering.

President Halimah Yacob opening the ICCS conference with praise for Basil Kannangara, founder of Being Bridges, and Nicholas Pang, creator of the award-winning Smol Tok conversation cards, for our collaborative project designing a card game for social cohesion, Diversity By Default.

MCCY Minister Edwin Tong commending Being Bridges founder, Basil Kannangara, at the ICCS closing address for our innovative interfaith VR tours project, Being Guests, which was awarded the top prize at the international 'Mission: Unite' hackathon for social cohesion.

Our Projects

We consult on diversity-related projects for the social sustainability aspect of ESG goals, running both long-term large-scale initiatives as well as short-term ad hoc engagements for clients and community partners. We also offer specially curated customisations of our main projects for short-term programmes configured to the needs of your organisation.

3 WAYS TO ENGAGE US

We create products




that tweak the dialogue of diversity for the specific needs of a particular community, whether it’s widening the dialogue, simplifying it, or deepening it.


We conduct programmes

that facilitate conversations around diversity, supporting the dialogue with tools and training that enable communities and individuals to do the same, whether they're from the government, corporate, educational, or religious landscapes.

We customize processes

that cater to the local contexts of particular communities, building up their capacity for dynamic versatility and resilience, whether it’s interfaith, interracial, or intercultural diversity.

(A SAMPLING OF OUR WORK)

Diversity by Default

A conversational card game that intersects various forms of diversity while making dialogue more accessible

Being Guests

An award-winning interactive virtual landscape for interfaith awareness with 360-degree VR tours exploring local places of worship

Being Community

A social media series facilitating sensitive yet constructive conversations on racial and religious discrimination

Being Beings

A community newsletter leveraging on the power of shared stories from various faiths to build a more versatile diversity.

Our Partners

In the work of diversity, the community is our essential partner. We work with clients and collaborators, benefactors and beneficiaries, organisations and individuals, who range across the public sector, private sector, and civic society. Social harmony is too important, so we need all the help we can get. (Case studies soon...)

Our Participants

We interact with many people in the course of our work - participants, volunteers, and clients. Who are they and what do they say about their experience of our products and programmes?

Our Philosophy

This is complex, sensitive, and very hard work. How do we approach or even touch these important issues in our multicultural society? We offer unique angles for the work of diversity and community building. Get in touch with us to hear more!

Doing diversity and dialogue differently.

Diversity is not a fault - it's our default. It's not our end point, but our starting point. So then dialogue isn't the solution - it's the organic consequence of our natural human foundation.



Building bridges for being bridges.

We make tools that are not ends in themselves, as they in turn make us. The external bridges we build serve a purpose - so that internally we may be bridges; and serve our purpose.


Connecting communities through the catalyst of their own conversations.


We curate conversations that are contextualised to the lived realities of each community that works with us. Every community has a distinct context, so our engagements are never identical as our conversations are always collaborative. Crafted by communities themselves, this approach has deep potential for connecting with participants and catalysing them for the greater good.


Our People

We are a consulting firm helmed by a Singaporean team of multicultural heritage. Part of the diversity landscape for over a decade, we are supported by a large network of specialist collaborators, freelancers, part-timers, and volunteers.

As a consultancy whose work is collaborative by choice, Being Bridges is a social enterprise inspired from the pressing need to develop community cohesion out of social diversity. Our specialties and those of our network span various backgrounds of research and practice that are essential to multicultural community-building.

We have facilitated hundreds of dialogue sessions, trained dozens of communities from various sectors of society, and consulted on a range of projects with a lens towards diversity. As our work and expertise grows, we aim to explore and cater more of such offerings for the specific needs of local communities, workplaces, schools, and the public at large.

(BEHIND THE SCENES)

Social Consultancy
Project Coordinator

BEFORE ENGAGING US,

DO NOTE OUR APPROACH IS...

...less about advocacy and more about dialogue facilitation.


...less about activism and more about community activation.

...less about confrontation and more about social innovation.

Our original work

We help communities
large & small
tweak the process
of dialogue
to build a more
versatile diversity.