About
A Danish method, written down, given away, and built into an app.
Ven is Danish for friend, and the three letters stand for View, Exchange, Notice — what happens in every round. The method was DeepConexion until September 2026; the app now lives at app.venmethod.com, and old links keep working.
The founder
Jesper K. Lassen, who performs as The Danish Mentalist, is a mentalist who performs roughly three hundred nights a year and was the subject of a three-part documentary series on Danish national television. The job is to walk in front of several hundred strangers, work out in a few seconds who is guarded and who came willingly, and then get people to open up — quickly, on demand, and again tomorrow. Twenty years of that left him with a firm opinion about how two strangers become less strange to each other, and that opinion is the method.
He grew up in Aalborg, in a house that needed the skill early. His mother was diagnosed with chronic depression and bipolar disorder when he was eight and raised three children alone. The school he happened to attend taught social and emotional skills properly, at a time when almost no school did. The children a mile away got nothing. The essay is about the difference.
The company
VEN Method is a small company: a founder in Denmark, a partner and CFO in San Antonio, Texas, and the teachers who correct us. It is registered in Texas as DeepConexion LLC. Everything on this site is something we can show you — the study, the method, the software.
The method itself does not belong to the company. The Connection Protocol and the essay are published under CC BY-SA 4.0 so that nobody can take the method, improve it and close it again — including us. A U.S. provisional patent (filed 9 September 2025) covers the orchestration system; its sixth claim is that no camera, microphone or external sensor is ever consumed.
The name
Three letters. View: they look at each other before anyone speaks, and the secret colour makes that a game rather than an order. Exchange: both answer the same question, and the colour decides who goes first so nobody is picked on. Notice: two are exchanging, but the whole class is in it — being heard by your classmates is the point, and listening well is what the rest of the room is practising.
In one paragraph
VEN Method is a teacher-led classroom ritual for social-emotional learning, run on the classroom screen. The whole class takes part, one round per pair of students — about three minutes each, for as long as the teacher chooses; two at a time pick and guess a secret colour, hold three seconds of eye contact, and answer the same open question while the class listens. Questions are drafted before class and approved one by one by the teacher; there are no student accounts, cameras or microphones. A six-week controlled pilot at a Danish school (800 students) found class cohesion up +29% against +3.1% in control classes, and teachers reporting 4.3 h/week of preparation time back. The method is published free under CC BY-SA 4.0; the software is $1 per student per month.
Write to us
Teachers, school leaders, journalists, and people who think we have this wrong all reach the same inbox. Every correction so far arrived from a teacher.
Take the method. Or take the evening back.
The protocol is published in full and costs nothing — run it tomorrow with four coloured cards. The software writes the questions, runs the screen and keeps the record, for $1 per student per month.