Special Free Event: Tribe of the Heart with Rob Fisher

Tribe of the Heart will hold monthly meetings on the third Thursday beginning in June 2024 through March 2025. 

Upcoming Sessions

• October 17, 2024 - Dani Guo
• November 21, 2024 - Brian Lim
• December 19, 2024 - Felicia Dong
• January 16, 2025 - Hugh Smiley
  
• February 20, 2025 - Manuela Mischke-Reeds
  
• March 20, 2025 - Shir Dvir

October 17, 2024 with Special Guest, Dani Guo
Numerous indigenous cultures around the world understand that humanity has been given the most sacred gift, and that is the gift of choice. In our choosing, we create the world we experience. The wise ancestors of the Four Directions have prophesied these changing times that we are in, knowing that some will choose the path of WE while some will choose the path of I. Both paths lead to the same destination, but one path is less destructive and more loving than the other.  

In the October meeting of Tribe of the Heart, we will explore the four sacred gifts of indigenous wisdom. These are precise instructions given by our wise ancestors of the Four Directions to help us navigate through these tumultuous waters to again walk in right relationship with all of our relations that are heart-based and life-giving. 

We will focus on the sacred gift of hope. In a world that is hurting and afraid in so many ways, hope is an energy source that allows us to persevere through uncertain and challenging times that may test and push our capacities to love and care. Hope is a powerful choice. When many hearts gather in hope, in loving kindness and wisdom, beautiful shifts are always possible.
 

December 19, 2024 with Special Guest, Felicia Dong
After earning my MBA in 2001, I initially believed I would spend my entire career in the business world in China. However, things began to change. In 2012, I obtained my license as a psychotherapist while working in corporate culture and strategy. I then completed level 1 training in Hakomi in Shanghai in 2016, just before moving to California. Since last year, I have been in training to become a Hakomi teacher in China, while also seeing clients using Hakomi techniques. 

Looking back, I realize that my corporate experience and metropolitan lifestyle have provided me with insights into the struggles individuals face in their relationships, both at work and at home, as well as the mental and physical health challenges that arise from stress. I have been searching for a solution that can awaken both myself and those around me from a trance-like state, guiding us towards a more compassionate and liberating way of living. I believe that’s why I am here.

In Hakomi, we support clients’ transformation in several ways, from being a loving presence to creating new experiences to help develop new attitudes or possibilities.  I find it fascinating that sometimes storytelling does this kind of magic work, big and small.  There is a famous love story in China, that happened around Year 397 in Eastern Jin Dynasty.  The original story was a tragedy that resulted from constraints of arranged marriage back then.  It was later developed into a legend which transformed their love into eternity and has been spread for nearly 1,700 years.  China broke up the arranged marriage system in mid of last century, however, it still stirs ripples in people’s hearts who are longing for freedom from worldly concepts.  In 1959, two students at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music composed a Violin Concerto based on this story, which has become very popular in China ever since then.  I’m going to tell the story and share a short audio version of this concerto.  And then we can go to groups where participants can make up their own stories of transformation for work, life or imaginary world.  I hope we will have a good story evening, build connection and inspire action. 

Tribe of the Heart is An Idea for a Difficult Time
This event is designed to create a place for us to inspire each other towards greater lovingness, kindness and compassion. We live in a difficult time. People and the planet are suffering in myriad ways, and I would like for us to co-create an oasis, a community of the heart. You know the magical feeling of being in a Hakomi training where you experience that there’s finally room for you to be more of who you really are, to blossom a little bit, and to extend your generosity to others? 

Let’s cultivate that and bring it to a larger community. Let’s do it together! Let’s see if it catches fire!

Structure
We will do some internal and relational processes that will help nourish and explore our hearts.

We can include times to share what inspires us to live more deeply from our organic selves: poetry, music, art, dance, stories of connecting with a clerk in Whole Foods, successes in repairing a rupture with your partner or the heartbreak of failing to do so, a poem that you read or wrote that touched something deep inside. 

We can inspire each other.  Maybe you can lead a movement piece or share a quote.

Let’s create a place where we can support each other in gentle ways that inspire the best in each other.

We can have times to sit in sacred silence together, to use mindfulness to explore the barriers to our own heartfulness, times for ritual, times to have our pain held by a tribe of the heart.

Together, we have a tremendous amount of talent, leadership and heart, that I believe we can use to create something wonderful for ourselves and others. 

What You Will Learn

• Explore what stops you from being more loving
• Feel less alone
• Bring more kindness to the world
• Access your heart more deeply

Who Is This For
This event is open and relevant to Hakomi graduates and the general public.

For More Information
For more information, including accommodation for special needs and details about our grievance process, contact our administrator at info@embodywise.com.