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Education is how lifelong progress is achieved through learning, unlearning and relearning. This chapter summarises the pilot of a social application based on the Mereon Matrix, and closes with an addendum that updates the original social application based on the Mereon Matrix. BELONGING was designed to rebuild the hearts and minds of teachers, strengthening their relationships with administrations, parents and learners. It provides a tool for addressing classroom management that was intentionally developed to fully support, yet operate independent of the curriculum. The results of this programme, implemented in an Italian school district since 2004, exceed what one might have dared to dream: BELONGING builds authenticity, develops character, and nurtures relationship skills, all of which are essential to learning and learning to lead. In a world driven by competition, separating winners from losers, BELONGING reveals connections and grows cooperation and empathy. This project indicates how authenticity, responsibility and accountability foster survival. It makes it clear why competent, creative, freethinking individuals who work together in a cooperative endeavour, strengthen stability to increase the possibility that a system can transcend survival. In 2017, the BELONGING brand was established and updated; design betas took place in the US and Indonesia; and global marketing efforts are underway in the fall of 2017.