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Belonging is created by feeling supported by one's community. It also involves respecting those around you.

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Bridging is when you make an effort to connect with those around you, especially those who may have different identities than you. Belonging is when you are able to feel like you are part of a community.

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Belonging refers to being part of a space where you feel you can connected to others who are similar to you. As for bridging, is what allows for one to feel that sense of belonging since it can allows for people to connected with one another..

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Where no one's voice is left out of the narrative and where everyone feels valued. It is important to go outside the circles of our identity

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Bridging is using intersectionality to relate to the people around us and foster a community of understanding and empathy.
Belonging is a sense of comfort and likeness to others.

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Bridging is attempting to connect with different groups of people irregardless of whether they hold different beliefs or have different ethnic origins than yourself.

Belonging is feeling a sense of community with your peers despite any obvious differences and feeling like you have a safe space to express yourself when you're with them.

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Bridging: is an essential tool that
acknowledges a shared society with multiple perspectives while also taking into account a persons personal beliefs.

Belonging: is more than just existing, it means having a voice within a community

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Bridging is a tool used in the process of forming a sense of belonging. In order to belong, one must find a community of people to belong in. The act of bridging is reaching out and forming connections with people to find common points and a sense of connection. Then, when many people have connected and have formed a sense of acceptance amongst themselves, they will belong.

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To me Bridging and Belonging mean coming together in unity with people who are different than you, based on a foundation of mutual respect. And finding commonalities no matter how small, to use as a spark to increase understanding and connection to one another

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belonging is feeling comfortable and supported by communities you identify with and bridging is finding ways to make those communities interact

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Bridging is the act of reaching out to others and trying to form a connection with that person or group of people.

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Belonging - having at least basic respect and acknowledgment in a community and being part of the community

Bridging - creating a way to connect different spaces and mending the gap that may exists between people / spaces to create a greater sense of community

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working with others to better understand each other. Focusing on tolerance, understanding and kindness to bring people closer instead of pushing them apart. 

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working with others to better understand each other. Focusing on tolerance, understanding and kindness to bring people closer instead of pushing them apart. 

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Bridging is the people shaking hands and belonging is the people on each side already being comfortable with each other.

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Bridging is connecting and forming relations between people of different groups, cultures, and relations.
Belonging is being comfortable within your social or identity group and knowing you are safe within it and the people within it.

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celebrating what makes us different and welcoming and accepting others makes us a stronger community than if we only allowed those who were the same to belong.

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bridging is the action that works to create a sense of belonging between different communities through conversations and education