We are very excit­ed to launch a new dis­cus­sion series “Whole­Heart­ed Thurs­day” led by Ginevra Are.

With this series, we sup­port your jour­ney to being a more authen­tic, con­nect­ed, and real ver­sion of yourself!

You will leave each ses­sion with a deep­er under­stand­ing of the way we con­nect as human beings, and what pre­vents us from doing so in our soci­ety. We will build a com­mon vocab­u­lary to then bring the gift of vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty into our rela­tion­ships, fam­i­lies, and communities. 

Each week we begin with a video or text by an expert on the week­ly top­ic that the group will all watch or read togeth­er. Fol­low­ing is an inter­ac­tive dis­cus­sion on the top­ic. Then, Ginevra offers prac­ti­cal tools and tech­niques to address the top­ic, and every­one goes into break-out rooms to prac­tice these tools. 

We rec­om­mend that you watch or read the shared con­tent in advance, and come with curios­i­ty and ques­tions. We will go through the con­tent once more as a group before div­ing deep­er into the subject.

This week the top­ic is “Is Vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty More Chal­leng­ing for Men? Explor­ing Gen­der Bias Around Shame and Vulnerability”.

Togeth­er we will watch a short por­tion of the Ted Talk enti­tled “Lis­ten­ing to Shame” (www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame?language=en) by Ph.D. researcher Brene Brown, and read two excerpts from the book “Untamed” by New York Times best-sell­ing author Glen­non Doyle (drive.google.com/file/d/15NyqNLDOUdydggOJncPMtv-Zx4q9JevY/view).

After that, we will open a dis­cus­sion on the top­ic of shame, how it is social­ized dif­fer­ent­ly by gen­der, and how our soci­ety’s expec­ta­tions on how we should behave as “men” and “women” can actu­al­ly hin­der vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty. Ginevra will then share exer­cis­es tak­en from non-vio­lent com­mu­ni­ca­tion and active lis­ten­ing which can then be brought into our lives in order to increase authen­tic con­nec­tions in our rela­tion­ships, fam­i­lies, and communities. 

Week 3: Lead­ing from the heart: Heart­break and Resilience. We can do hard things!

Week 4: Vul­ner­a­ble is hot! Con­nec­tion and Sex­u­al­i­ty: I show you mine, if you Show me Yours (♥️)

Week 5: How to have Authen­tic Con­ver­sa­tions around Racial issues. 

A Cer­ti­fied Inte­gra­tive and Well­ness Life Coach with an MA in Guid­ance and Coun­sel­ing, Ginevra has been offer­ing zooms to the Kin­dra Com­mu­ni­ty since March on top­ics such as: The 5 Love Lan­guages, EFT (Emo­tion­al Free­dom Tech­nique), Dai­ly Rit­u­als for Well­ness and Self-Love practices.

Tick­ets are dona­tion-based. We very much appre­ci­ate your dona­tion which goes to pay our facil­i­ta­tors and sup­port our vir­tu­al offerings. 

Please note: These ses­sions may be record­ed and made avail­able to peo­ple who aren’t able to attend. How­ev­er, break­out rooms with­in the ses­sions are not recorded. 

Kin­dra is cre­at­ing an on-line/off-line com­mu­ni­ty that val­ues authen­tic con­nec­tions. Our con­nec­tion app start­ed with dat­ing and will short­ly include friend­ship con­nec­tion. We were host­ing reg­u­lar in-per­son events that com­bined great music and danc­ing with con­scious con­nect­ing; now we have brought it online and host reg­u­lar vir­tu­al con­nec­tion and com­mu­ni­ty-build­ing events. 

The Kin­dra Dat­ing App is avail­able for both iPhone and Android and is FREE to use.
apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1292021975
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=life.kindra.d.

Please join the Kin­dra app to con­nect one-on-one with peo­ple, and the Kin­dra Com­mu­ni­ty what’s app chan­nel (chat.whatsapp.com/KBQeJmX0g1oGdcJvcWQQpE) to join the com­mu­ni­ty con­ver­sa­tion.

More info on Kin­dra at www.kindra.life.