Upcoming events.
Q1: Witnessing & Voice
This quarter invites a slower kind of attention. We notice what has been carried quietly, speak only as we are ready, and gather in presence rather than performance. Through shared listening and reflection, the space becomes lighter, steadier, and quietly affirming.
NAMING WHAT WE CARRY, Witnessing As Presence Rather Than Fixing
NAMING WHAT WE CARRY, Witnessing As Presence Rather Than Fixing
We move through the day carrying things unseen, unspoken, sometimes unnamed. Memories that settle in the corners of the body, half-forgotten yet always present. The weight of what we have endured presses against the ribs, in the hollow of the throat, in the tremor of a hand we barely notice. To name it is not to fix it. To name it is to recognize it, to give it the dignity of acknowledgment, to allow it to exist without explanation or apology.
In this space, witnessing becomes its own act of care. To be present is to sit beside the unspoken, to lean into the silence that so often contains more than words ever could. One might speak, or one might simply be, the voice suspended in the pause, the understanding that no one else is required to heal it, to interpret it, to render it right. And yet, by being seen even without speaking we participate in a quiet alchemy. The load shifts, subtly, imperceptibly, and perhaps, just perhaps, light reaches the places we thought darkness had claimed.
It is not solution, it is not performance. It is presence, relentless and tender, and in that presence the world, so often heavy, so often lonely, feels for a moment, tenuously, that it can hold us back.
HOW IT WORKS
This one-hour Zoom gathering invites participants to explore what it means to be seen without explanation. The space is designed for presence, reflection, and gentle witnessing. Participation is entirely voluntary. No one is ever required to speak, and quiet reflection is always honored.
Format (modeled on structured support groups):
Opening Guidelines (5–10 minutes): The facilitator reads the group agreements and explains how the session operates, setting a safe and supportive tone.
Timed Sharing (35–40 minutes): Attendees may raise their hand to speak. Each speaker has about four minutes, after which the next person is invited to share. When no one is speaking, the room rests in silent reflection.
Optional Prep: For those who wish, a short essay or poem on testimony or the journal prompt “What have I carried quietly?” can be considered ahead of time.
Closing Reflection (5–10 minutes): The group comes together to integrate insights, grounding the experience and leaving participants feeling heard, lighter, and more present.
Why Join:
Engage in a safe, structured space for personal reflection
Practice witnessing and being witnessed without pressure
Connect with others in shared contemplation and quiet presence
Nonprofit Partner Organization
RedBike Outreach is an entirely volunteer-driven organization that delivers meals, supplies, and care directly to people experiencing homelessness in St. Louis. Each week, volunteers meet immediate needs with compassion and respect, creating moments of connection and affirming the dignity of every person they encounter.
Your support helps us continue our mission. RedBike Outreach is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and every contribution makes a meaningful difference. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to help us expand our programs and reach more people in need. Together, we can keep the wheels of change turning.
The Practice of Expression and Energy, No. 2
Through guided breath and imagery of flowing water, participants surrender to spontaneity, allowing words, marks, and gestures to move freely onto the page, trusting the creative flow.
WHEN SILENCE WAS SAFER: Silence As Adaptation, Not Failure
Silence is not failure. It is adaptation, protection, and presence. Explore how quiet became survival and what it means to notice it now.
The Practice of Expression and Energy, No. 3
Guided visualization explores the strength of roots anchoring into the earth, steady and unshakable. Participants then layer writing or art to express how resilience shows up in both vulnerability and endurance.
VOICE WITHOUT PERFORMANCE: Speaking Without Urgency Or Justification
VOICE WITHOUT PERFORMANCE: Speaking Without Urgency Or Justification
For many of us, speaking has never been neutral. To speak has meant to justify, to persuade, to soften the edges of our experience so it can be received without discomfort. We learned to arrange our words carefully, to anticipate misunderstanding, to perform clarity in order to remain safe, loved, or believed. Voice became something offered conditionally, shaped for the listener rather than grounded in the self.
This theme invites a different relationship with expression. Voice without performance asks what it might feel like to speak without editing for approval or coherence. It asks whether sound, presence, or even silence can be enough, without explanation or outcome. Here, voice is not a product. It is not a case to be made or a story to be perfected. It is simply a moment of truth, allowed to exist as it is.
Release from being understood is not a rejection of connection. It is a refusal to make comprehension the cost of expression. It recognizes that being heard does not always mean being grasped fully, and that meaning does not disappear simply because it cannot be neatly translated. There is relief in allowing words to land without chasing interpretation, in trusting that what is offered does not need to be resolved in order to matter.
In this space, voice may arrive softly or not at all. It may be fragmented, uncertain, or unfinished. Silence is not failure. It is choice. What matters is not clarity, but authenticity. Not performance, but presence. And in that presence, something loosens. The burden to convince lifts. The body exhales. What remains is a quieter, truer form of expression that belongs entirely to the one who offers it.
HOW IT WORKS
This one-hour Zoom gathering invites participants to explore what it means to be seen without explanation. The space is designed for presence, reflection, and gentle witnessing. Participation is entirely voluntary. No one is ever required to speak, and quiet reflection is always honored.
Format (modeled on structured support groups):
Opening Guidelines (5–10 minutes): The facilitator reads the group agreements and explains how the session operates, setting a safe and supportive tone.
Timed Sharing (35–40 minutes): Attendees may raise their hand to speak. Each speaker has about four minutes, after which the next person is invited to share. When no one is speaking, the room rests in silent reflection.
Optional Prep: For those who wish, a short essay or poem on testimony or the journal prompt “What have I carried quietly?” can be considered ahead of time.
Closing Reflection (5–10 minutes): The group comes together to integrate insights, grounding the experience and leaving participants feeling heard, lighter, and more present.
Why Join:
Engage in a safe, structured space for personal reflection
Practice witnessing and being witnessed without pressure
Connect with others in shared contemplation and quiet presence
Nonprofit Partner Organization
RedBike Outreach is an entirely volunteer-driven organization that delivers meals, supplies, and care directly to people experiencing homelessness in St. Louis. Each week, volunteers meet immediate needs with compassion and respect, creating moments of connection and affirming the dignity of every person they encounter.
Your support helps us continue our mission. RedBike Outreach is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and every contribution makes a meaningful difference. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to help us expand our programs and reach more people in need. Together, we can keep the wheels of change turning.
Q2: Belonging & Care
Q2: Belonging & Care
Q2 THEME: BELONGING & CARE
This quarter, we turn our attention to what it means to be held and to hold. To notice the spaces where we feel seen and the spaces where we do not and to sit in both without judgment. Belonging is not a thing that is granted or earned. It lives in the small acts of attention, in the quiet acknowledgment of presence, in the moments we choose to listen and to speak even softly. Care is not a transaction. It is a river that moves in many directions, sometimes visible, sometimes barely there, yet it carries us, shapes us, and reminds us that our lives are woven together in ways we often fail to notice until we stop to look.
In this group, we explore how connection can be radical, how support can be simple, and how the act of showing up for one another is itself an act of resilience. Each month, we gather not to perform or to fix, but to witness, to reflect, to rest in the company of others who understand the quiet labor of staying alive, the delicate work of showing up, and the gentle power of being held. We leave carrying a little more warmth, a little more steadiness, and a little more capacity for ourselves and for each other, noticing that belonging begins in the moment we recognize our shared humanity.
Nonprofit Partner Organization
The Angel Band Project provides trauma-informed music therapy to survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence. This entirely nonprofit, clinical program is led by board-certified music therapists who work directly with individuals and small groups to support healing, emotional expression, and resilience. Through songwriting, rhythm exercises, and guided music experiences, participants find a safe space to process trauma, reclaim their voices, and connect with others who understand their experiences. The Angel Band Project emphasizes creative expression, community, and empowerment, helping survivors move toward hope, confidence, and a sense of belonging through the transformative power of music.
The Practice of Expression and Energy, No. 4
Thursday, April 16th
Link to daily meditation prompt
Theme: Growth and Transformation
Week Four: Guided meditation invites awareness of subtle shifts and unfolding — like seeds breaking open to sprout. Participants reflect on personal change and emergence, journaling or sketching symbols of growth and transformation as they experience them in the present.
WHAT BELONGING ACTUALLY FEELS LIKE: Internal vs external belonging
VOICE WITHOUT PERFORMANCE: Speaking without urgency or justification
For many of us, speaking has never been neutral. To speak has meant to justify, to persuade, to soften the edges of our experience so it can be received without discomfort. We learned to arrange our words carefully, to anticipate misunderstanding, to perform clarity in order to remain safe, loved, or believed. Voice became something offered conditionally, shaped for the listener rather than grounded in the self.
This theme invites a different relationship with expression. Voice without performance asks what it might feel like to speak without editing for approval or coherence. It asks whether sound, presence, or even silence can be enough, without explanation or outcome. Here, voice is not a product. It is not a case to be made or a story to be perfected. It is simply a moment of truth, allowed to exist as it is.
Release from being understood is not a rejection of connection. It is a refusal to make comprehension the cost of expression. It recognizes that being heard does not always mean being grasped fully, and that meaning does not disappear simply because it cannot be neatly translated. There is relief in allowing words to land without chasing interpretation, in trusting that what is offered does not need to be resolved in order to matter.
In this space, voice may arrive softly or not at all. It may be fragmented, uncertain, or unfinished. Silence is not failure. It is choice. What matters is not clarity, but authenticity. Not performance, but presence. And in that presence, something loosens. The burden to convince lifts. The body exhales. What remains is a quieter, truer form of expression that belongs entirely to the one who offers it.
HOW IT WORKS
This one-hour Zoom gathering invites participants to explore what it means to be seen without explanation. The space is designed for presence, reflection, and gentle witnessing. Participation is entirely voluntary. No one is ever required to speak, and quiet reflection is always honored.
Format (modeled on structured support groups):
Opening Guidelines (5–10 minutes): The facilitator reads the group agreements and explains how the session operates, setting a safe and supportive tone.
Timed Sharing (35–40 minutes): Attendees may raise their hand to speak. Each speaker has about four minutes, after which the next person is invited to share. When no one is speaking, the room rests in silent reflection.
Optional Prep: For those who wish, a short essay or poem on testimony or the journal prompt “What have I carried quietly?” can be considered ahead of time.
Closing Reflection (5–10 minutes): The group comes together to integrate insights, grounding the experience and leaving participants feeling heard, lighter, and more present.
Why Join:
Engage in a safe, structured space for personal reflection
Practice witnessing and being witnessed without pressure
Connect with others in shared contemplation and quiet presence
Nonprofit Partner Organization
The Angel Band Project provides trauma-informed music therapy to survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence. This entirely nonprofit, clinical program is led by board-certified music therapists who work directly with individuals and small groups to support healing, emotional expression, and resilience. Through songwriting, rhythm exercises, and guided music experiences, participants find a safe space to process trauma, reclaim their voices, and connect with others who understand their experiences. The Angel Band Project emphasizes creative expression, community, and empowerment, helping survivors move toward hope, confidence, and a sense of belonging through the transformative power of music.
The Practice of Expression and Energy, No. 5
Thursday, May 21
Link to daily meditation prompt
Theme: Stillness and Reflection
Week Five: A stillness meditation focuses on silence and inward listening. Through breath and spacious pauses, participants drop into quiet awareness, noticing what arises in the absence of distraction. Creative expression follows, drawn from the essence of that silence.
The Practice of Expression and Energy, No. 6
Thursday, June 18th
Link to daily meditation prompt
Theme: Renewal and Integration.
Week Six: A closing meditation weaves together the threads of the past weeks. Participants reflect on what they’ve released, discovered, and carried forward, then create an integration piece -journaling or art that symbolizes renewal, wholeness, and the path ahead.
Q3: Identity & Becoming
Q3: Identity & Becoming
Q1 THEME: IDENTITY & BECOMING
This quarter, we explore the self that exists beneath expectations, survival habits, and assigned labels. We turn toward the parts of us shaped by experience but not defined by it, noticing the creativity, resilience, and curiosity that quietly persist. Identity is fluid and complex, unfolding over time, and often revealing itself in unexpected ways.
In this group, we reflect on the ways identity is claimed, performed, and sometimes surrendered. We consider how labels can both confine and reveal, how survival can obscure desire, and how creativity can act as a bridge between who we are and who we wish to become. Each month, we gather to explore these questions through conversation, reflection, and shared insight, drawing inspiration from youth who are discovering their own voices through empowerment and creative education. Together, we witness the courage of becoming, honoring the self that emerges when we move beyond expectation, survival, and constraint toward authentic expression and possibility.
Nonprofit Partner Organization
The Trevor Project is the leading national nonprofit dedicated to suicide prevention and crisis intervention for LGBTQ+ young people. They offer free, confidential support 24 hours a day, 365 days a year through phone, text, and online chat with trained counselors who understand the unique challenges LGBTQ+ youth face. In addition to crisis services, The Trevor Project provides resources, education, and community connection to help young people feel seen, supported, and safe during moments of distress and beyond.
Q4: REPAIR & CONTINUITY
Q4: REPAIR & CONTINUITY
Q1 THEME: REPAIR & CONTINUITY
This quarter, we turn our attention to the threads that hold us together and the spaces that need mending. We explore the ways in which life fractures and the quiet, often unseen labor required to repair what has been broken. Repair is not about returning to what was or erasing pain. It is about recognizing the work we have done, the lessons we carry, and the ways we can move forward with intention and care.
Continuity emerges in the moments we choose to persist, to honor memory, and to create connections that endure. In this group, we reflect on how accountability, compassion, and resilience shape our lives and how the act of tending to ourselves and others is both transformative and sustaining. Each month, we gather to witness, to share, and to leave with a deeper sense of presence, holding the possibility that even in what is fragmented there is strength, wholeness, and hope that continues beyond any single moment.
Nonprofit Partner Organization
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The Practice of Expression and Energy, No. 1
Join The Practice of Expression and Energy, No. 1 on January 15, 2026 for an evening focused on presence and beginning. The session opens with a grounding meditation using breath work and visualization, followed by journaling or sketching the present moment. A calm, guided space for mindfulness, creativity, and reflection.
RedBike Outreach
RedBike Outreach is a St. Louis-based grassroots organization dedicated to providing emergency services and compassionate support to the unhoused population within St. Louis City. Grounded in dignity, equity, and human connection,
RedBike Outreach
RedBike Outreach is a St. Louis-based grassroots organization dedicated to providing emergency services and compassionate support to the unhoused population within St. Louis City. Grounded in dignity, equity, and human connection,
RedBike Outreach
RedBike Outreach is a St. Louis-based grassroots organization dedicated to providing emergency services and compassionate support to the unhoused population within St. Louis City. Grounded in dignity, equity, and human connection,
RedBike Outreach
RedBike Outreach is a St. Louis-based grassroots organization dedicated to providing emergency services and compassionate support to the unhoused population within St. Louis City. Grounded in dignity, equity, and human connection,
RedBike Outreach
RedBike Outreach is a St. Louis-based grassroots organization dedicated to providing emergency services and compassionate support to the unhoused population within St. Louis City. Grounded in dignity, equity, and human connection,
RedBike Outreach
RedBike Outreach is a St. Louis-based grassroots organization dedicated to providing emergency services and compassionate support to the unhoused population within St. Louis City. Grounded in dignity, equity, and human connection,
RedBike Outreach
RedBike Outreach is a St. Louis-based grassroots organization dedicated to providing emergency services and compassionate support to the unhoused population within St. Louis City. Grounded in dignity, equity, and human connection,
Creative Meditation
Creative Meditation is a practice of presence—anchored in breath, grounded in creativity. By focusing attention through line, color, shape, and form, we quiet the mind and open the door to flow. Through each session, participants are guided back to themselves—away from distraction, toward ease.
RedBike Outreach
RedBike Outreach is a St. Louis-based grassroots organization dedicated to providing emergency services and compassionate support to the unhoused population within St. Louis City. Grounded in dignity, equity, and human connection,
Creative Meditation
Creative Meditation is a practice of presence—anchored in breath, grounded in creativity. By focusing attention through line, color, shape, and form, we quiet the mind and open the door to flow. Through each session, participants are guided back to themselves—away from distraction, toward ease.
RedBike Outreach
RedBike Outreach is a St. Louis-based grassroots organization dedicated to providing emergency services and compassionate support to the unhoused population within St. Louis City. Grounded in dignity, equity, and human connection,
Creative Meditation
Creative Meditation is a practice of presence—anchored in breath, grounded in creativity. By focusing attention through line, color, shape, and form, we quiet the mind and open the door to flow. Through each session, participants are guided back to themselves—away from distraction, toward ease.
RedBike Outreach
RedBike Outreach is a St. Louis-based grassroots organization dedicated to providing emergency services and compassionate support to the unhoused population within St. Louis City. Grounded in dignity, equity, and human connection,
Creative Meditation
Creative Meditation is a practice of presence—anchored in breath, grounded in creativity. By focusing attention through line, color, shape, and form, we quiet the mind and open the door to flow. Through each session, participants are guided back to themselves—away from distraction, toward ease.
RedBike Outreach
RedBike Outreach is a St. Louis-based grassroots organization dedicated to providing emergency services and compassionate support to the unhoused population within St. Louis City. Grounded in dignity, equity, and human connection,
ArtFusion Opening Reception
Please mark your calendars and join us on October 17th at the Laclede's Landing for a special night celebrating the arts in St. Louis, where the city originated.
Stories that Shape Us (Copy)
This series invites us to slow down and look deeper. In a world driven by headlines, algorithms, and curated realities, we often absorb dominant narratives without pause. But if we don’t question what’s being presented—if we don’t examine the layers beneath—we risk accepting someone else’s version of the truth. This project is an invitation to do just that: to pause, reflect, and engage.
Creative Meditation
Creative Meditation is a practice of presence—anchored in breath, grounded in creativity. By focusing attention through line, color, shape, and form, we quiet the mind and open the door to flow. Through each session, participants are guided back to themselves—away from distraction, toward ease.
RedBike Outreach
RedBike Outreach is a St. Louis-based grassroots organization dedicated to providing emergency services and compassionate support to the unhoused population within St. Louis City. Grounded in dignity, equity, and human connection,
Creative Meditation
Creative Meditation is a practice of presence—anchored in breath, grounded in creativity. By focusing attention through line, color, shape, and form, we quiet the mind and open the door to flow. Through each session, participants are guided back to themselves—away from distraction, toward ease.
RedBike Outreach
RedBike Outreach is a St. Louis-based grassroots organization dedicated to providing emergency services and compassionate support to the unhoused population within St. Louis City. Grounded in dignity, equity, and human connection,
Creative Meditation
Creative Meditation is a practice of presence—anchored in breath, grounded in creativity. By focusing attention through line, color, shape, and form, we quiet the mind and open the door to flow. Through each session, participants are guided back to themselves—away from distraction, toward ease.
Creative Meditation
Creative Meditation is a practice of presence—anchored in breath, grounded in creativity. By focusing attention through line, color, shape, and form, we quiet the mind and open the door to flow. Through each session, participants are guided back to themselves—away from distraction, toward ease.
RedBike Outreach
RedBike Outreach is a St. Louis-based grassroots organization dedicated to providing emergency services and compassionate support to the unhoused population within St. Louis City. Grounded in dignity, equity, and human connection,
Creative Meditation
Creative Meditation is a practice of presence—anchored in breath, grounded in creativity. By focusing attention through line, color, shape, and form, we quiet the mind and open the door to flow. Through each session, participants are guided back to themselves—away from distraction, toward ease.