Are you anti-social?
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Why, helloooooo!
Okay, okay, it is already May, but it's only four days into the month, and we've already had some seriously insightful discussions shaking up all sorts of inspiration and ideas. Spring is definitely here, friends, and the fruits of our imaginations are showing their full colors.
This week alone, we have talked about:
Joy and how to design a website to feel like a long, slow exhale
Ageism, entrepreneurship and exit strategies
Why being off social media doesn't make you anti-social
How questions and questioning relates to transness in our latest podcast episode with Avery Kalapa
The not so micro-ness of "micro"agressions, and this great video that illustrates the point so well
What we're learning from bringing the questions to hold practice to our kiddos and the young people in our lives
How updating your LinkedIn profile can be an exercise in reclaiming your agency and identity
Keep your eyes out for future newsletters, and a summer mailer (!!!) coming to a mailbox near you where we'll dive head first into to each of these topics (and much more!).
Read on to learn about our upcoming alt-marketing workshop in Norwalk, CT, and what we have in store for our summer retreat.
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Join us in honest conversation with Avery Kalapa (they/them) exploring the juicy, sometimes scary, and always revealing space that exists when we unhook from familiarity and open ourselves to new possibilities.
"And so to be in a relationship with questioning to me is almost to be in a relationship with that deeper, more mystical spiritual truth element where it's like, what is actually true for me? And of course I can't help but relate this to transness because for me, the journey of gender has been very much a spiritual journey at uncovering, and a discovering and a turning towards, 'oh, what is this thing that is unknown but that is blooming? What is this seed that is planted in the dark but wants to bloom?' And I don't know what's going to grow, and I don't know what changes it may bring to my life, but I know it needs to bloom. "
In this episode you’ll hear:
An exploration of the relationship of transness and questioning
How answers can provide a false sense of security, while questions invite us into a deeper relationship with the unknown
What conditions are needed to allow us to enter into a state of questioning, and how Avery creates this environment in their yoga offerings and practice
Why questions are key if we are interested in divesting from patterns, conditioning and trauma
How to cultivate the yogic teaching of Viveka ("discernment")
Why it matters to have affirming yoga spaces, especially for folks who hold marginalized identities
What possibilities "might open up if I’m allowed to want what I want? If I'm allowed to need what I need, and let that be on the surface and not the subconscious? Where might that lead us?"
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3 nights, 4 days to dive into the questions at the center of your life and work.
July 13-16 2023
This is about flipping the script on the dominant notion of leaders as 'those with the answers."
We affirm those who ask, hold, and live into the questions as our guides into the present and future.
During the retreat, you will have the opportunity to lay down the many leading roles you hold, so you may lovingly be with yourself and them from a place of choice and curiosity.
Here, the questions, not the answers are the map.
We have lots more details on our website, which we invite you to check out.
Video of Raven Crest Botanicals Retreat space in Berne, NY
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black and white logo for og brand by Dream Job Brands
Introducing og by Dream Job Brands.
og is a Denver-based cannabis brand that produces rec and med edibles uniting music, culture, and people.
Join us in celebrating this amazing brand launch. It has been an incredible journey supporting this women-owned brand, manufactured at the first social equity licensed production facility in Denver.
From the brand strategy through to the visual identity and messaging, this project felt right from start to finish.
We can't wait to see how you continue to grow.
