Transforming Pain Into Power, Healing Our World
About this Groundfloor Gathering
Join us for a grounding, soul nourishing experience. Join us to build the beloved community.
We will be allowing ourselves to feel and honor our collective pain about what is happening in the world. When we give ourselves permission to feel our pain, energy is freed up which can then be used to put our compassion into action.
During this sacred activism workshop, we will be practicing the world we want to see in the spaces between us. We will engage in Joanna Macy’s The Work That Reconnects, a form of group work designed to foster the desire and ability to take part in the healing of the world. In addition, we will be practicing nonviolent communication in order to have the skills to communicate with people whose views are different from our own.
According to civil rights leader Valarie Kaur, “Revolutions do not happen only in grand moments in public view but also in small pockets of people coming together to inhabit a new way of being. We birth the beloved community by becoming the beloved community.”
Facilitator bios:
Laura Le (she/her) is a community builder, transformational workshop leader, EFT tapping practitioner, and activist. She believes connection is the answer to the many challenges we are facing today. In the past, she served as director of a non-profit stress management center focused on promoting healing in community. Her self-care practices include yoga, singing, dancing, writing, improv, time in nature, prayer, laughter, and heart-to-heart conversations with friends.
Minda Aguhob is the executive director of The Co-Caring Initiative, a nonprofit with a mission to create a more connected and vital world. She shared the mission of co-caring to the United Nations General Assembly in 2019. Minda is a certified meditation teacher in The Mind Illuminated, which blends ancient techniques with modern neuroscience and Culadasa’s 10-stage roadmap to provide personalized guidance. At the heart of Minda’s work is a belief in the power of mindful, intentional action to tackle today’s most pressing challenges. Eric Huang is a certified trainer through the Center for Nonviolent Communication (NVC). For Eric, the key to NVC is accessing healing through the expression and discovery of authentic truth underneath with warm, sensitive accompaniment with empathy and resonance. He is most passionate about group coaching, NVC pod & community formation, and networking of NVC resources for learning and growth. Eric is a Licensed Professional Civil Engineer in the State of California and worked in Silicon Valley in High Tech Marketing for 25 years.
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