The Conscious Collective
This space is all about empowerment,
self-inquiry and intentional transformation.
We are re-claiming our attention and power
and devoting time and space
to cultivate a radical sense of belonging...
in our bodies
in our minds
and in our lives
within a culture and society
that forgets we are flowers
that must be tended
to bloom
This space is all about empowerment,
self-inquiry and intentional transformation.
We are re-claiming our attention and power
and devoting time and space
to cultivate a radical sense of belonging...
in our bodies
in our minds
and in our lives
within a culture and society
that forgets we are flowers
that must be tended
to bloom
The Conscious Collective is a guided support and accountability group for young women who meet in community to intentionally reflect on the contents of our bowl, this life, and how we fill it. We meet each week on n
This space is about making the shift from
self-conscious
to conscious of the self...
to consciously confident.
Confidence starts by
CONFIDING IN ONESELF.
This is about devoting time and space each week to observe our inner landscapes and inquire about how we are... feeling/being/thinking/acting. We inquire about our identities, our self-narratives, our beliefs, our habits, our actions, and our goals. Then we invite ourselves to find the gaps between our words and deeds, our values and lived realities, and set up actionable plans to close those gaps. Doing so leads to more alignment, more harmony, more room for our souls to do the talking in our lives...
This is all about considering and questioning the modern cultural curriculum--we critically assess mainstream definitions of conceptions such as beauty and success and inquire into how they live in our bodies and minds. Our awareness grows and we realize we are shackled to chains and running after red herrings. Perhaps you may feel those chains through anxiety, doubt, restlessness, or a yearning for something you cannot name. The chains are unique to each of us, and yet, collectively shared too. As our awareness grows, so too does the world, and we start seeing new possibilities for how we can live and feel. As our consciousness expands, we find keys to free ourselves. And boy does it feel good to grow free!
This is about having a circle in which girls can be vulnerable and receive/share support and learnings through the transition from girlhood to womanhood. This is about equipping girls with the resources, practices, support, and teachings that are not so often taught in schools, and yet are desperately needed for us to be able to swim through the waves that inevitably come crashing.
This is a space for openness, curiosity, vulnerability, imagination, healing, and dreaming. This is a space for music, art, writing, poeming, vision questing, mindfulness, and meditation. This is a space for growing and strengthening our capacity to listen to our intuition and cultivating trust in our gut feeling. This is about committing ourselves to a weekly time where we check in with ourselves and are witnessed in doing so. Being a part of this circle, we hold each other accountable to the small actions and habits that we each commit to in service of manifesting our goals and dreams into our lived reality.
It seems to be becoming increasingly difficult to be mentally, emotionally, and spiritually well. It takes intentional effort and skillful action to renounce the false ideas of the cultural surround around beauty and success, claim our attention away from the distracted nature of our culture, and live a life of radical empowerment. In this space, we explore the taboos and elephants. Sexuality, substances, menstruation/ moon cycles, our relationship with food, anxiety, expressiveness/depressiveness. You name it. This is also a space where we ask tough questions about our privileges, our consumptive habits, and the sources of all that is in our lives. This inquiry rests on an underlying premise that the climate crisis is not just outside. It is inside too. The inner and outer climate crises are not only parallel processes, but ecologically simultaneous and interdependent. What is good for us is also good for the earth. What does environmental ethics mean to you and how does it show up in your life? In this circle, we are cultivating a vulnerable, intimate community where we can ask the tough questions, voice stories, and consider ways we may re-imagine our relationships with all of these facets of our lives.
Logistical Details:
- Circles take place once weekly on zoom for 75 minutes
- There is a two-month commitment to the circle - the work is deep and we must till the fields before we can plant seeds and then actually see something beautiful grow... which we then need to tend to maintain and grow!
- Costs $18 per session. If this is difficult for you, you may pay what you can, no questions asked.
The circles are facilitated based on the philosophy of The Alliance for a Viable Future (AVF) Resonance Circle Facilitation (2019). Read more about the Alliance for a Viable Future here. This work also stems from my training as a sound practitioner in the Open Center Integrative Sound and Music Program (learn more about it here)
During each call, we move through: the five elements of an AVF Resonance Circle:
Centering
Gratitude
Vision
Action
Inspiration
Teachers from whose work I draw
Clarisa Pinkola Estes (Jungian psychoanalyst and women-centered mythologist)
Tara Brach (psychologist and meditation teacher)
Jiddu Krishnamurti (theosophical philosopher)
Alan Watts (Western Zen philosopher)
Alice Coltrane (musician and Swamini)
Dr. Robert Kegan's (theorist of consciousness transformation)
Sylvia Nakkach (vocal practitioner and sound healer)
This space is about making the shift from
self-conscious
to conscious of the self...
to consciously confident.
Confidence starts by
CONFIDING IN ONESELF.
This is about devoting time and space each week to observe our inner landscapes and inquire about how we are... feeling/being/thinking/acting. We inquire about our identities, our self-narratives, our beliefs, our habits, our actions, and our goals. Then we invite ourselves to find the gaps between our words and deeds, our values and lived realities, and set up actionable plans to close those gaps. Doing so leads to more alignment, more harmony, more room for our souls to do the talking in our lives...
This is all about considering and questioning the modern cultural curriculum--we critically assess mainstream definitions of conceptions such as beauty and success and inquire into how they live in our bodies and minds. Our awareness grows and we realize we are shackled to chains and running after red herrings. Perhaps you may feel those chains through anxiety, doubt, restlessness, or a yearning for something you cannot name. The chains are unique to each of us, and yet, collectively shared too. As our awareness grows, so too does the world, and we start seeing new possibilities for how we can live and feel. As our consciousness expands, we find keys to free ourselves. And boy does it feel good to grow free!
This is about having a circle in which girls can be vulnerable and receive/share support and learnings through the transition from girlhood to womanhood. This is about equipping girls with the resources, practices, support, and teachings that are not so often taught in schools, and yet are desperately needed for us to be able to swim through the waves that inevitably come crashing.
This is a space for openness, curiosity, vulnerability, imagination, healing, and dreaming. This is a space for music, art, writing, poeming, vision questing, mindfulness, and meditation. This is a space for growing and strengthening our capacity to listen to our intuition and cultivating trust in our gut feeling. This is about committing ourselves to a weekly time where we check in with ourselves and are witnessed in doing so. Being a part of this circle, we hold each other accountable to the small actions and habits that we each commit to in service of manifesting our goals and dreams into our lived reality.
It seems to be becoming increasingly difficult to be mentally, emotionally, and spiritually well. It takes intentional effort and skillful action to renounce the false ideas of the cultural surround around beauty and success, claim our attention away from the distracted nature of our culture, and live a life of radical empowerment. In this space, we explore the taboos and elephants. Sexuality, substances, menstruation/ moon cycles, our relationship with food, anxiety, expressiveness/depressiveness. You name it. This is also a space where we ask tough questions about our privileges, our consumptive habits, and the sources of all that is in our lives. This inquiry rests on an underlying premise that the climate crisis is not just outside. It is inside too. The inner and outer climate crises are not only parallel processes, but ecologically simultaneous and interdependent. What is good for us is also good for the earth. What does environmental ethics mean to you and how does it show up in your life? In this circle, we are cultivating a vulnerable, intimate community where we can ask the tough questions, voice stories, and consider ways we may re-imagine our relationships with all of these facets of our lives.
Logistical Details:
- Circles take place once weekly on zoom for 75 minutes
- There is a two-month commitment to the circle - the work is deep and we must till the fields before we can plant seeds and then actually see something beautiful grow... which we then need to tend to maintain and grow!
- Costs $18 per session. If this is difficult for you, you may pay what you can, no questions asked.
The circles are facilitated based on the philosophy of The Alliance for a Viable Future (AVF) Resonance Circle Facilitation (2019). Read more about the Alliance for a Viable Future here. This work also stems from my training as a sound practitioner in the Open Center Integrative Sound and Music Program (learn more about it here)
During each call, we move through: the five elements of an AVF Resonance Circle:
Centering
Gratitude
Vision
Action
Inspiration
Teachers from whose work I draw
Clarisa Pinkola Estes (Jungian psychoanalyst and women-centered mythologist)
Tara Brach (psychologist and meditation teacher)
Jiddu Krishnamurti (theosophical philosopher)
Alan Watts (Western Zen philosopher)
Alice Coltrane (musician and Swamini)
Dr. Robert Kegan's (theorist of consciousness transformation)
Sylvia Nakkach (vocal practitioner and sound healer)
This work is informed by the belief that there is a connection between the degradation of the human spirit and our degradation of the earth. The climate crisis is not just an external crisis. It is mirrored by our internal climate crisis. When we begin to heal ourselves, we heal the earth. When we begin to heal the earth, we heal humanity.
"More people and adolescents in the United States die from suicide than from cancer, AIDS, birth defects, influenza, heart disease, and pneumonia combined."
James Hillman
"Our culture no longer recognizes that each aspect of the wild, natural world possessed its own meaning and feeling tone, a numen."
Stephen Harrod Buhner
"We might learn about plants in science, how to name their parts or how they grow. But we never went the next step, which was to talk about how to care for them."
Felipe Molina
"The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.
Masanobu Fukuoka
"More people and adolescents in the United States die from suicide than from cancer, AIDS, birth defects, influenza, heart disease, and pneumonia combined."
James Hillman
"Our culture no longer recognizes that each aspect of the wild, natural world possessed its own meaning and feeling tone, a numen."
Stephen Harrod Buhner
"We might learn about plants in science, how to name their parts or how they grow. But we never went the next step, which was to talk about how to care for them."
Felipe Molina
"The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.
Masanobu Fukuoka
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