The Nurtured Life Path has always been for those seeking deeper meaning and engagement with Life. To nurture something requires that we offer both loving support and honest accountability. This fierce compassion enables people and other entities to grow with freedom and healthful boundaries.
As a member of SOUNDheart, you will be offered individual opportunities to nurture yourself, your life, and your relationships. And, through your support, together we will nurture the path forward towards our collective wellbeing. Thank you for adding your resources, valuable energy, and trust to this endeavor. May we bring about a living legacy of wellbeing through our own engagement with Life.
individual incentive
A soundheart can balance with grace at the pinnacle of presence. This requires the courage and ability to slip, and the agility to re-balance almost constantly. Through this practice we find that grace and balance are an experience of appropriate tension, not a state of ease or relaxation. And yet, ease and calm are the physiological outcomes of this process.
We find the sense of flow we seek when we hold the appropriate tension in our mental, emotional, and physical states.
this is the practice of SOUNDheart
Members of the SOUNDheart community will be offered monthly support and relevant actions to cultivate this state of sounded-ness in their everyday lives. See below for membership benefits.
collective incentive
There is currently no available path forward to a future of collective wellbeing. That is one of the reasons we keep “treading water” rather than choosing forward actions. We will need to build a bridge to that future if we want it to materialize. The future we wish is one that manifests through the actions we take towards it.
In order to do this we will need to develop new tools for the journey, we will need to train ourselves to be ready for the experience, and we will need funding to make all of that possible. As a member of SOUNDheart, you will support the development of a new non-profit to engage with research and practice development for cultural wellbeing.
Membership Features
Monthly offerings:
One interview with individuals from various fields and contexts to integrate the interdisciplinary nature of cultural wellbeing study.
Printable Almanac Journal Pages: A 5 year journal for noting observations, connections, and patterns in your personal life and environment (prompts provided). Each month for one year, a new almanac page will be released.
Recorded Meditation with follow up prompt. Each month I will create and record a guided meditation to support some aspect of the work we are doing together. This could be a meditation to support stillness, or one to energize. Seasonal themes as well as our personal and collective nervous systems will guide my choice of meditation offerings.
Twice-Monthly Soundheart Coffee time check-in. These coffee time zoom chats are an opportunity to gather with other SOUNDheart Members. We will discuss the monthly practices, offer observations, share barriers, and offer support to each other on this path.
Relevant resources or organizations features. Each month I will feature 2-3 resources of organizations to know and explore. This section of the membership area will continue to grow with resources you can reach for yourself or to share with others. Features will also develop our knowledge about what other organizations are offering, what is important to them, and how we can build more sustainable actions together.
Short list of monthly actions. Easy and attainable small changes/choices you can choose from as a prompt to action without all the personal research and decision making. Think of this as actions menu, each month you can choose what feels attainable. These small actions, engaged together, will give us a sense of accountability and build our capacity for change over time.
Seasonal (starting Autumn 2023):
Print copy of The Booklet. Due to rising printing costs, I’ve been unable to publish The Booklet the last few seasons. Members will receive a hard copy for the current season. Back copies will be available for purchase digitally.
1 recipe
1 ritual practice
1 article based on my academic research
1 poem
JOIN US IN CHOOSING THE PATH FORWARD.
Together we will navigate the unknown into a peaceable future.
Membership opens June 19th. The first member benefits will be available August 1. We will have multiple member events in July.