Two Chairs. Infinite Possibilities.
846s.org creates culturally affirming spaces where young people, families, educators, organizations, and communities can develop Emotional Intelligence, strengthen leadership, explore emerging technology, build professional skills, and create new possibilities together.
Every meaningful future begins with a conversation.
Based at Sabathani Community Center in South Minneapolis. Learning in community, in parks, in partner spaces, and online.
One chair is yours. The second chair holds the person, conversation, resource, or pathway waiting to meet you.
The Philosophy
Listening. Learning. Growing together.
From Conversation to Contribution
A young person may enter 846s.org through a drone demonstration, an Emotional Intelligence workshop, a neighborhood conversation, mentoring, or a Community Learning Common. Wherever the journey begins, each experience can become part of a larger pathway.
Two Chairs begins the conversation.
The Community Learning Commons expands the circle.
The Human Experience Ecosystem helps turn learning into contribution.
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Why This Work Matters
Young people already possess imagination, intelligence, cultural knowledge, lived experience, creativity, and leadership potential.
846s.org helps close that access gap. We do not begin by asking what is wrong with a young person or community. We begin by recognizing what is already present and creating the conditions in which those strengths can grow.
Why Emotional Intelligence and Technology Belong Together
Drone technology creates access to aviation, engineering, mapping, teamwork, entrepreneurship, and emerging careers.
Emotional Intelligence helps participants develop self awareness, emotional regulation, empathy, confidence, communication, judgment, leadership, and responsible decision making.
At 846s.org, participants learn to fly drones, plan missions, solve problems, communicate under pressure, reflect on their experiences, support teammates, and apply their knowledge in real community settings.
The Five Pathways
Emotional Intelligence and AIEI
Develop self awareness, emotional regulation, empathy, motivation, communication, and cultural understanding through Emotional Intelligence, African Inspired Emotional Intelligence, Seven Mirrors, reflection, stories, proverbs, and lived experience.
Explore Emotional Intelligence and AIEIMentoring and Community Learning
Learn to listen, communicate, collaborate, resolve conflict, support others, and build trust across generations and lived experiences.
Explore Community Learning CommonsDrone and Workforce Development
Build drones, practice safe flight, prepare for FAA Part 107 certification, plan missions, explore mapping, develop technical knowledge, and discover emerging career pathways.
Explore Drone and Workforce DevelopmentPortfolio Based Workforce Development
Turn learning into visible evidence through drone photography, mapping, storytelling, technical demonstrations, leadership experiences, community service, and authentic projects.
Explore Portfolio Based Workforce DevelopmentLeadership Through Contribution
Mentor peers, share knowledge, support local businesses, participate in community projects, and create opportunities that help others grow.
Explore Youth Leadership and MentoringCommunity Learning Commons
Learning should not be limited by classroom walls. Our Community Learning Commons bring reflection, mentoring, technology, workforce development, cultural wisdom, and community relationships into the places where people already gather.
Sabathani Community Center, neighborhood coffee shops, parks, schools, libraries, local businesses, partner organizations, and online gatherings become welcoming spaces where people learn with and from one another.
Impact
Impact is more than participation. It is what people learn, what they create, what they demonstrate, and how they use their growth to help others.
More than 1,400
Youth and young adult program engagements recorded in 2025
412
Participants engaged in drone workforce development
396
Participants engaged in Emotional Intelligence programming
218
Participants engaged in mentoring and leadership activities
288
Community learning engagements
10
Young people earned FAA Part 107 commercial drone pilot certification
All figures are presented with their reporting periods and verified sources. Program categories may include participants who engaged in more than one experience.
Learning Without Walls
Join Emotional Intelligence workshops, community conversations, FAA study circles, mentoring sessions, reflection experiences, and professional development from wherever you are.
Learning Without Walls connects people across neighborhoods, cities, countries, and lived experiences without losing the human relationships at the center of learning.
The Empty Chair
This chair belongs to a young person whose future has not yet been invited into the room.
Perhaps no one has told them that aviation, technology, leadership, or entrepreneurship could belong to them.
Perhaps they need a mentor, transportation, equipment, examination support, a paid opportunity, or simply one trusted conversation.
Select what you could offer, and we will point you to the most relevant next step.
Transparency
846s.org is committed to community accountability, reflection, evaluation, responsible stewardship, and public learning. We share what we are learning, what participants are accomplishing, where we are growing, and where additional investment is needed.
Whether you are a young person, parent, educator, employer, community organization, funder, entrepreneur, or neighbor, there is a place for you here. Bring your questions. Bring your experience. Bring your hopes for the future. The conversation begins when we choose to sit together.