2024
EDITION 2024 KEYNOTE OF THE XIII EDITION OF THE GLOBAL SOCIAL MOVEMENT #2H4FAMILY: “BIG DREAMS BRING GENERATIONS TOGETHER”
Big dreams bring generations together
Mahatma Ghandi said the famous phrase “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” As we know from history, he was quite successful in promoting pacifism as a means of social pressure. The dream of overcoming the evils of this world with kindness and love sounds utopian, yet he succeeded. Every emancipator and every revolutionary, every outstanding researcher and every great inventor, always have a dream at the beginning: of a just world, of understanding how it works, of breaking human limitations.
The Humanites Institute was also born out of a dream – to break the crisis of ties and win against the epidemic of loneliness, to make business friendly to people, families and the environment. In the steps we take to realize this dream, we are inspired by the lives and attitudes of important figures from the past and the observation of everyday heroes; we use their experiences to influence our reality in the wisest way possible.
It is this very slogan that will guide the next, happily thirteenth edition of the Two Hours for Family / For Man campaign in 2024. We thank the winner of the #2h4family theme contest, Ms. Grażyna Mierzejewska, for creating this beautiful phrase.
And what is your shared dream?
In many companies and organizations, workshops are held to help supervisors and the team define the mission and vision of the institution. This is done both to define the purpose of the company and to find meaning in daily work, but also to be able to effectively tell the whole world about the organization and its activities.
Although dreams and mission and vision are not the same concepts, they consist of the same essence: what you want for yourself and the world. As an individual, as a company.
Do you know that the aim of the Action is to remind people of the role and values of building interpersonal relationships, closeness to others and nurturing family ties.
We believe that through the social change that we inspire, we are able to fight the phenomenon of loneliness, which, according to many studies, leads to a deterioration of quality of life, many diseases (including depression) and, unfortunately, often to premature death*.
We believe that from good interpersonal relationships, meaning those in which we are accepted and loved, comes a lot of happiness and a sense of meaning.
*Report “The Global Risks Report 2019.” – World Economic Forum (loneliness next to climate catastrophe identified as one of the biggest threats to the world today)
The campaign is aimed at companies and institutions that address our message further to their employees. Companies, on the occasion of participation in the campaign, organize activities related to relationships and well-being (visits to children at work, lectures, trainings, competitions, integrations, trips). The symbol#2h4family/ #2h4human is the two hours that the vast majority of employers offer their employees as time off work. This gives employees an additional opportunity to take care of themselves, their loved ones and nurture relationships that are important to them. The action culminates on May 15 (International Family Day), and on this day the activities of the action participants intensify.
We observe how our action over the years strengthens families and teams in companies and has a positive impact on people’s mental and emotional health. It also influences the organizational culture in companies and makes it more family-oriented and pro-human.
The #2h4family #2h4human has been running continuously since 2012, and so far more than 3 million people from more than 2000 companies, from 59 countries, have participated.
We wish you many moments spent together nurturing relationships, preferably intergenerational!
See previous editions: 2023, 2022 ,2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017
Did you know?
According to the report “Well-Working. Family Responsibility of Business” 2022, prepared by the Humanites Institute, 93 percent of those surveyed feel pressure to prioritize work over private life.
Is there room for private dreams in such a reality? Together, we can change this by making workplaces more family-, people- and dream-friendly.
Download the abbreviated report “Well-Working. Family Responsibility of Business” 2022
Join #2h4family: it’s very easy!
- FIRST – Inform the Board of Directors, Departments: HR, CSR, ESG and register your company by May 15 , by completing out this form.
- SECOND – On May 15, encourage Employees to spend time together with their families. Inspire them: take ready-to-use materials from our website, you can find them here.
- THIRD – give the people in your Team two hours off to spend time with their families. This is not obligatory, but more than 90% of participating companies do it. We suggest doing it around May 15 on International Day of Families. While the choice is yours, equally good dates are June 1, September 1 and others. You can also arrange with each person separately when they will receive their #2h4family.
- FOURTH – Celebrate around May 15! Create rituals of closeness to be closer at home and at work! Prepare team-building activities for your Team, design them to be inclusive for Employee Families as well.
And that’s the END!
The rest of the program points are optional, though highly encouraged!
- PO FIFTH – encourage your Team to participate in our competitions with prizes. We will publish information about them soon!
- SIXTH – give us a report on how your Company celebrated 2h4family. We will award the most interesting realizations! See last year’s winners of the competition for the implementation of the Two Hours for Family | for Human campaign: here.
- SEVENTH – invite partners, contractors foreign branches of the company to join the campaign. In this way you will become an Ambassador of #2h4family!
Join us and create a Great Social Change of work culture and lifestyle together! To be together, not side by side at home and at work!
Did you know that companies from 59 countries are participating in the #24family campaign? This means that our campaign is celebrated in every third country in the world! Thousands of companies, or millions of male and female employees, along with their families, take part in the campaign.
2h4family is also an annual meeting with business. Employers – leaders and pioneers of the Great Social Change of work culture and lifestyle – are gathered around the “Two Hours for Family | for Human” campaign. See how we celebrated the successes of #2h4family #2h4human among business.
Information materials:
Wellbeing conference for business 2022
Wellbeing conference for business 2023
How to celebrate
We are hearing more and more about new applications for artificial intelligence. Logistics, manufacturing, transportation, copywriting, marketing are just a selection of industries in which this technology is increasingly used. But are there areas where humans are irreplaceable?
The most important of these seems to be relationships. They are the ones that, despite the many tools that facilitate communication, are the area where we are the center. Relationships will always depend predominantly on us, on our desires, involvement, experiences.
The second aspect, which from our perspective is also extremely important, is what at the level of the company or organization we call mission and vision, and at the level of the individual – dreams. The key word here is desire, or the deep desire for something, both for oneself and for others. Desire is the inner power that pushes us to realize our dreams.
These two aspects of humanity came together this year in the 13th edition of the #2h4family action .
A frank conversation about dreams can be a great starting point for building and deepening relationships. Below we give you some inspiration on how to approach this topic with your loved ones.
- Ask your loved ones what their biggest, however small, dream is at the moment. To eat an apple pie like Grandma makes? Take a walk in the mountains? Watch the sunrise? Later, you will realize your little dreams together!
- What did you dream about as children? What do your children or loved ones dream about? Talk about your dreams and how they are affected by the times you live in.
- Draw a map of the World of Your Dreams together with your loved ones. What can’t be missing on it?
- Find out, secretly, what are the dreams of those closest to you. If you are able to realize any of them, surprise them!
We all dream. Some of us about an empathetic and just world, others about a big serving of ice cream. Many of our dreams are shared with other people. If you find that you and your loved ones have similar dreams, realizing them can be a great opportunity to spend time together. Try to dream together on May 15, International Day of Families. And best of all – share your dreams with each other regularly. You’ll see for yourself how great it is for the quality of life.
Talk about your dreams and passions:
- What superpower would you like to wake up with tomorrow?
- Do you have a common family passion? Has it been in your family for generations?
- Do you know your grandfather’s passion from your childhood?
- What did your grandmother collect when she was in elementary school? Or do you passionately collect any items?
- What do you think the phrase “to infect with passion” means? Do you know people who infect you with passion (at school, at work)? Or are you able to infect yourself? Tell us what it takes to infect people with passion.
- A joyful party for many people, or a quiet conversation until the morning with a person close to you? Justify your choice.
- What would you ask a goldfish to do? How about your mother? Ask your loved ones about their passions and dreams!
ASK ME– created by the Humanites Institute, this game contains cards with sets of questions that will help you get to know your family or group of friends better. Do you think you know everything about them? And do you know what cartoon character is the most inspiring to your Mom, what it means to your Dad to be a happy and fulfilled person, what life failure turned out well for your Grandmother? Reach for the ASK ME cards and discover the secrets of the people you think you know very well!
You can recommend us further. Encourage your friends from other companies to join #2h4family, send a Letter to Employers. Introduce your decision-makers to the possibility of becoming our Partner: cooperation options.
Become an Ambassador of #2h4family #2h4human – cooperation offer and information on how to join in English.
Please contact us by email: katarzyna.lorenz(at)humanites.pl
- 54 percent of male and female employees are considering changing jobs in the near future.
- Only 20 percent of male and female employees think their supervisor is a role model.
- During the pandemic, probably as a result of the pro-worker changes forced by its emergence, the negative assessment of well-being in the work environment dropped from 63 percent to 36 percent.
Download the abbreviated Well-Working 2022 report.
Download the full Well-Working 2022 report.
Inspirations
Don’t worry. The Humanites Institute is coming to you with a handful of inspiration and supporting materials. And also – with a prize for the company whose implementation of the action will appeal most to us.
2024 motto: “Big dreams unite generations.”
Probably there is no more pleasant matter for creative animation than human dreams! Surely your Team at the very sound of this word has a thousand ideas for collective activities. But if you could use some extra inspiration to stimulate your collective imagination, we’re tossing out a handful of ideas:
- Choose some care facility in your area. Go there for a visit and find out what the wards dream about. Then try to make their dream come true!
- Organize a contest related to the dreams of the employed people <3
- Prepare a family field game around this theme.
- Organize a cooking workshop under the theme “Make your culinary dreams come true”.
And remember – The Sky is The Limit!
Inspiration from earlier editions
The most common activity chosen by companies as part of the Two Hours for Family / Human action are contests with attractive prizes. For example:
- during the edition whose motto was “Our pets and shared moments,” the company held a contest for children of female employees for an artwork depicting an animal pet,
- during an edition whose motto was “Generational Movie Club,” another company organized an art contest for children to create an image of their favorite movie hero.
You can find more inspiration HERE.
- During the edition under the slogan: “Small and big family trips”? – Awards were given to those who designed their own postcards from their favorite places in Poland.
- In turn, the “Generational Film Club”? – Encouraged family competition for dishes inspired by favorite movies!
The prizes were corporate gadgets, and if the budget allowed – gifts that prompted joint family activities – tickets to the aquapark, cinema or amusement park.
An excellent prize would also be the ASK ME cards created by the Humanites Institute!
Download the presentation
THAT will certainly come in handy for you:
As you embark on the “Two Hours for Family / Human” campaign, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Below you’ll find materials that are sure to come in handy as you create your own version of our shared adventure.
First – quotes about dreams of famous, wise, famous people:
For your channels, social media, for contests and other activities:
- Dreams always conquer reality when you let them – Stanislaw Lem
- Making others happy is the dream of happy people – Phil Bosmans
- “Dreams are the engine that drives our lives, they are the impetus that helps us grow up, try, fail, make mistakes, try again, fail again, but still be happy. There is no person without dreams, small or big, just as there is no dream that cannot be fulfilled. We are all capable of great things if we believe in ourselves.” – Lodovica Comello
- ” – What does it take to make one’s dreams come true? Money? Luck? – Courage, my love. Above all, courage.” – Katarzyna Michalak
- “Sometimes the most important thing is not to fulfill your dreams, but to persistently fight for them.” – Sylwia Blach
- “Acting from the heart is the greatest engine for making dreams come true. – Dora Rosłońska
- “Nothing creates the future like dreams.” – Victor Hugo
- “Dreams are a necessary complement to reality, they help not only to bear it, but also to improve it. Without dreams there is no progress. To dream is to set goals. It is to overcome immobility, to reject the status quo.” – Angele Lieby
- “The only thing that limits us in achieving our dreams is our own imagination. Success is the result of hard work, patience, humility and the belief that everything in life is possible.” – Martyna Wojciechowska
- „Reality is made of the same yearn as dreams.” – Władysław Stanisław Reymont
- „You are never too old to set a new goal or have a new dream”– C.S. Lewis
You can recommend us further. Encourage your friends from other companies to join #2h4family, send a Letter to Employers. Introduce your decision-makers to the possibility of becoming our Partner: cooperation options.
Become an Ambassador of #2h4family #2h4human – cooperation offer and information on how to join in English.
Please contact us by email: katarzyna.lorenz(at)humanites.pl
- 54 percent of male and female employees are considering changing jobs in the near future.
- Only 20 percent of male and female employees think their supervisor is a role model.
- During the pandemic, probably as a result of the pro-worker changes forced by its emergence, the negative assessment of well-being in the work environment dropped from 63 percent to 36 percent.
Download the abbreviated Well-Working 2022 report.
Download the full Well-Working 2022 report.
ASK ME, about the power of good question
Soon this year’s deck will be available in our online store. For now, you can order decks from previous editions for your team.
- What memories do you have of your first ever private party?
- What is your favorite song? How about your grandmother’s song?
- What was the name of the first pet you took care of??
These are just examples of questions that teach you curiosity, cooperation, listening. You will find more in ASK ME boxes, which are not only a great way to spend time together, but also an ideal gift for your Employees.
- because it’s a great way to thank your company’s employees for their commitment and work,
- because it’s a gift that will benefit the whole family of your employee(s),
- because the game facilitates integration and brings a smile to your face,
- because the cards are a great idea for a meeting or a company integration trip
- is an interesting gift for your partners and customers.
How many pieces do I need?
We encourage you to order cards of several – a dozen pieces for your company to give as gifts to your employees. Some companies buy cards for all employees.
English edition / Language versions
The cards come in an English edition. Give them to your English-speaking employees, offer the game to your company’s foreign branch, or use them to communicate in English or teach English to your family.
Watch the movie how to play:
Take and use: press release, graphic materials with the theme of this year’s Campaign, social media graphics and content for employee emails. We’re keeping our fingers crossed for your celebration of this year’s Two Hours for Family, for Humanity campaign!!! 🙂
Press release: download file
The content of the letters, that is, all the texts you need for internal and external communication:
- Letter to Employers: download file
- Letter to Employees: download file
Pictures and graphics for you:
- Picture to social media – rectangle: download file
- Big banner – 3840×2160: download file
- Banner – 320×200: download file
- Banner – 720×200: download file
- Banner – 1526×500: download file
- Banner – 1600×800: download file
- Banner – 1700×1100: download file
- Banner – 1800×600: download file
- Poster A4: download file
Read more about the new illustrations.
Press Information #2024 – soon! Be tuned 🙂
Learn how small, medium and large companies celebrate #2h4family, ideas, events, activities – DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION and good_practices_final_2023.pptx get inspired!
Join the ranks of our Ambassadors and Partners – welcome!
- Become a Partner of the action 2h4Family, contact us: biuro(at)humanites.pl, katarzyna.lorenz(at)humanites.pl or see presentation
- Become an Ambassador of the action – HumanBE, 2h4Family, Global Social Movement
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us!
Action Coordinator:
Katarzyna Lorenz
katarzyna.lorenz(at)humanites.pl
+48 505 017 957
The Two Hours for Family | Human movement is not the only venture of the Humanites Institute? Among our activities, you will also find an unconventional conference for women and business leaders, “Cohesive Leadership. Man and Technology.” Last year’s was devoted to quantum technologies and the issue of humanity. Want to know more? Download the report of the 9th Conference “Cohesive Leadership. Man and Technology”.
Employers in action 2024
