Genesis
RECONNECT is a non-profit founded by Cliff Divine whose main goal is to physically reconnect as many people as possible worldwide through Laughter, Oneness and Love. His vision is to make people live a transformative experience and a powerful ascension full of light, unity and joy which will help them to reconnect deeper to themselves, others and the life source.
RECONNECT for Laughter, Oneness and Love led by Cliff Divine is an evolution, a rebirth of the Connect movement created in 2016 which has been spread in Europe, many countries around the world and to all 50 U.S. States, countless of people, and in many universities and schools. From 2016 to 2024, Cliff co-founded with a friend, Manuel Frederick and led CONNECT, a worldwide grass roots movement of Human Connectivity for Peace and Unity.
Euzhan Palcy through her connection with Cliff and her admiration of his anti-racist values, accepted to be the Godmother of the Connect movement in 2016. Palcy, a groundbreaking filmmaker known for her commitment to human rights, was the first Black woman to direct a Hollywood Studio Film with MGM (Metro-Goldwyn Mayer) and received accolades from Nelson Mandela for her work exposing apartheid.
After the terrorist attacks at Bataclan in 2016 in Paris, France and waves of terror attacks around the world, they felt the need of the world for more unity and peace which led him to start the Connect movement, After a lot of hard work and with very limited means, two years later, they ended up appearing 33 times on the most watched news networks all across each of the 50 US States and being embraced by major public figures and institutions promoting their message of Peace. In 2024, the Connect movement ended as Cliff and Manuel pursued different life paths.
During the Worldwide Pandemic, Cliff’s uncle, Gerard Gesina, who taught Cliff, when he was a little boy, how to play drums and tell funny stories, tragically died due to Covid-19. During and after the pandemic, countless of people felt alone, disconnected and lacking of human contact. From 2019 to 2022, the Connect movement was in break during the pandemic due to social distancing and Cliff felt the need of going back uniting people and the world again even more with his Reconnect vision but he needed to raise the bar higher and deeper as the world is in need of more light and especially love. Cliff studied many spiritual leaders like Eckhart Tolle and many spiritual practices like TM (Transcendental Meditation) with Sibongile West, who taught meditation for 40 years and studied with the legendary Maharishi Yogi, the Indian creator of the TM technique. Through group meditations, Sibongile helped Cliff and many others to reach transcendence and enlightenment on a regular basis. Cliff will always remember Sibongile repeating “Love and Laughter, that is what the world needs the most!”. She tragically passed away in 2022.
The need to bring people together again was burning inside Cliff and it never stopped since 2016 and he couldn’t wait anymore to take action. This is why he is now leading Reconnect and is driven to spread to the 7 continents, his vision for Reconnect, including its main principles of Laughter, Oneness and Love, the real LOL! Especially after the world got hit by that devastating pandemic and that countless of people are in the dark, so disconnected and in need of more Laughter, Oneness and Love.
Cliff knows what it feels like to be hit hard by life, to feel hurt and alone, but he wants people to not become the face of their struggle and to rise above it, to heal, to unite and above all to help people to reconnect to themselves, to others, the life source in order to be joyful, dancing and living together as brothers and sisters. Cliff deeply believe, the motto: “Healed people heal people”. Cliff knows that continuing his burning desire for reconnecting people is what his Uncle and Meditation teacher would have wanted in their hearts and that he will honor them by spreading their teachings and uplifting energy to the world with Reconnect.
Reconnectors
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Cliff Divine
FOUNDER/CEO
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Megan Divine
INNOVATION DIRECTOR/CFO
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Franck Rapp
MUSIC DIRECTOR
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Irina De Assunçao
DESIGN DIRECTOR
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Sofiia Filippova
FILM EDITOR