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Welcome to the Original Seattle Neighborhood – rich in history, arts, culture, and food!
We live in a time that feels increasingly disconnected, drained, fragmented, and digital. We are the most connected generation in human history and one of the loneliest. Community has become something we scroll toward rather than build. Connection and communal care has been outsourced.
How do we remain human? How do we tend to and nurture our need to connect, be in community, and create/inspire together?
At Shelterwood Collective, we orient around a different premise: community is our medicine. It isn’t a metaphor, or a catchy phrase. It’s an operating truth for us. And one that we desire more community and collaboration around in our neighborhood and city.
Healing was never meant to happen in isolation. Our nervous systems regulate in relationship to other nervous systems. Grief moves when it’s witnessed. Joy multiplies when it’s shared. The wellness culture we’ve inherited tells us to heal ourselves, alone, with the right practice or the right purchase. But, our bodies and spirits know (even unconsciously) that health is relational and medicine is something we make with each other.
Hearth is where we practice that on purpose. It’s a monthly return to something ancient — the fire that people have always gathered around to think out loud together, wonder, disagree/challenge, hold complexity, and share wisdom/resources. This is a conversation with room in it.
Our inaugural gathering opens with the question underneath all of it: what does it actually mean that community is our medicine?
Lynda Lopez and Nicole Greenwald will open this series in dialogue with each other, then open the floor — pulling the threads of the conversation out into the room, where everyone gathered gets to add their own.
All are welcome. We’d love to have you join us.
Exchange: $0-33
RSVP and learn more on our website.
