As the summer moves into autumn, the change of seasons stirs subtle shifts within many of us, calling us to pause and reflect on our lives. As our rhythms and routines shift, the transition can feel disorienting, even unmooring. In the changing light and the shortening days, how can we anchor ourselves and navigate the changes in our inner and outer worlds? 

In this workshop, we will guide you to design rituals of transition for yourself, so you can find points of self connection and groundedness as you move through the days.

Are you looking for work, building a business, or starting a project and feeling stuck around reaching out to strangers? Does the word networking make you cringe? Do you have a vision of what you want to build but find it hard to find the right people to collaborate with?

This workshop, run by two anthropologists, shares an alternative approach to finding your people, one that is built on resonance, connection, and shared values. We explore the common barriers that prevent people from reaching out to others and how to overcome them. We guide you through practices to share your vision for the work you love and foreground your values as a way to find the people who are most aligned with who you are.

Do you feel stuck in a rut? Are you in the middle of building something—a creative project, a business, a manuscript you are writing—and unsure how to proceed? Are you in the midst of making a decision and feeling torn between two options?

This workshop brings insights from design thinking to help open up possibilities in the midst of uncertainty. We will examine several tools and frameworks that can help you get unstuck and explore how to bring an experimental mindset to overcome barriers and obstacles to moving forward with your work.

Career transitions are often marked by a mix of uncertainty and a sense of freedom to rediscover oneself. Many people begin their career transitions by asking, "What jobs are out there that I can adapt my skills and fit myself into?" In this workshop, you will flip the question to inquire, "What is already within me that I want to bring out?" We will explore how to connect with your core needs and values, and use a sense of congruence as a compass for finding your way toward work that is aligned with who you are.

How do you know what you truly want and need? How do you hone in on what matters to you amidst the competing voices, desires, and fears that vie for your attention? What do you do when strong feelings come up—when you get reactive and are about to make that speech you will regret, when you lurch into action and solve for the wrong problem, or feel overwhelmed and compromise on the things that matter to you?

This session will focus on building an inner container to hold the feelings and the voices inside. We will explore how you can locate a sense of self that is grounded and anchored in your needs, amidst changing circumstances that bring up a range of feelings. You will learn how you can tap into this capacity, as you navigate your relationships, life choices, and work in the world.

Many of us find it challenging to ask for what we want. We may fear rejection or being judged. We might worry that we are asking for too much. We may associate asking for help with appearing to be weak. We might feel torn between our need for autonomy and our yearning for togetherness, so we don’t have to do everything alone. In relationships where there are differences in knowledge, skills, and capacities, we may worry that the person helping will exert power over us, leaving us feeling vulnerable.

How do you make requests from a place of empowerment? How do you handle hearing a no?

In this workshop, we will examine the common barriers people face in making requests and how to overcome them. You will learn practices and frameworks that help you ask for what you want from a place of empowerment and gain skills to invite people to support you in meeting your needs in the spirit of collaboration.

How do you listen in a way that gets to the heart of someone’s experience? Where do you focus your attention and what do you do with your own thoughts, questions, advice, and counterpoints?

What are the ways in which you most feel heard and how can you communicate this to people in a connecting way?

How do you listen when the conversation is difficult and what they are saying is hard to hear? How can you bring listening and presence to redirect an argument looming on the horizon?

We will explore these topics through listening exercises, group activities, and discussions.

In times of transition, we stand at the threshold between what we have experienced and what we are yet to discover. At the turn of the year, many of us set intentions to change, to break out of old habits, to try new things. If these goals become an attempt to refashion the self, based on an assumption that we need to become something other than what we are, it can estrange us from ourselves. Actualizing a life that is truly our own is about unalienating ourselves from our needs, our passions, and the specificity of who we are.

This gathering will give you the space to orient your attention to what is already within you that you can bring out into the world in a community that will hear it, hold it, share your excitement for the life you want.

This hour-long session will include a guided reflection, a journaling exercise, and time to reflect on and share your intentions for the year. Registration is free and all our welcome. If you would like to donate, you will have the option to do so below.

What would it be like to work in a way that is aligned with your values? What would work look like if you could shape the process through which you work, orient your work towards the things that matter most to you, and do your job in a way that is integrated with the life you want to have?

Do you find yourself repeating the same pattern in relationships? Does being love sometimes feel like Groundhog Day, where you find yourself playing a similar role, even as your partners change? Would you like to get to the bottom of why this is and change the script?

The patterns that repeat in our lives often come from our unmet needs. The same pattern can show up in multiple relationships, or across different spheres of life—with family, with partners, and at work. While it can feel disempowering to experience the recurrence, there is a message in it that is yearning to be heard.

This workshop will help you understand the nature of relational patterns that repeat, so that you can identify yours and begin to listen to what it is trying to convey.

Partnerships can bring us the deepest experiences of intimacy and the most painful feelings of disconnection. In the midst of the rollercoaster that makes up love, how can we stay grounded in ourselves and connected to our partners?

We will explore practices that you can bring to your relationship to deepen intimacy and to stay connected when things get difficult.

How do you understand your capacities and limits and communicate them with care? How do you say no without pushing someone away? How do you hear someone say no and receive it with ease and grace?

While many people avoid setting boundaries out of a fear that it can cause conflict, we will look at setting boundaries as an affirmative practice that protects you as well as the connection.

How do we navigate the world of dating with authenticity and care? How can we gain clarity about what we are looking for, stay in touch with our needs, and co-create encounters, experiences and connections where these needs can be met? How do we get in touch with our desires and boundaries and stay within them to protect ourselves from the emotional fallout of dating? This class will provide tools for self-connection that will support you with communication during dating, whether it is in initiating connections, hearing and saying no, and having conversations that are potentially awkward and difficult with honesty and care for yourself and others.

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