New Series: Adult to Adult Connections
Join us for our September Series ...
Image from DALL-E when prompted “group of old and young people in a Van Gogh style”
Dear Friends,
The quality of our lives is generally not determined by our job title, our 401(k), or our social status … but is often more closely aligned with the quality of our relationships.
Every month we try to find a topic of interest to our community, and our September donation-based series will explore Non-Intimate Relationships.
How do we navigate and help understand Adult to Adult Relationships?
Areas:
Many of us have parents in the later stages of life, and we are exploring a new relationship with them.
Others of us are those aging people or parents and we are adjusting to a different way of relating to loved ones.
Some of us have siblings that we love … and also challenge us.
For some of us it is our friends who feel more like family.
In all these areas, we will ask: How do we nurture and support the range of relationships in our life?
We will explore how to:
Be true to ourselves
Understand what is ours to own and accept
Set boundaries and take distance when necessary
Discover a “right relationship” with those in our past and present
Our intention this month is to create a community around this topic. We may have a few guest speakers, or it may just be us, learning together.
SCHEDULE
Every Wednesday at 11am PDT we will gather to explore a topic:
Sept 6th, Week 1: Parent / Adult Child Relationships
Sept 13th, Week 2: Friendships
Sept 20th, Week 3: Siblings (if we have them or people who feel like siblings in our life)
Sept 27th, Week 4: Lessons and Challenges
All sessions will be videotaped and viewable afterward.
BY DONATION
Led by Soren Gordhamer and Cecily Mak.
I looked up Cecily, and her LinkedIn profile says, " She is currently focused on her board and advisor roles while scaling Wisdom Ventures, a $10mm seed fund co-founded among a small set of luminaries and leaders at the intersection of well-being, human connection, and consumer tech." . Of course she can do whatever she wants but it's "scaling up Wisdom Venture" that's making me rethink the purpose of Wisdom Venture. In the world that's living in poverty is reality of millions of people, I find the idea of making money from healing activities problematic.
I must say what struck me in this announcement was the use of the words, “non-intimate”. Intimacy is not only romantic love or sexual relationships. These relationships can take place with no intimacy at all. The people of situations you included like parents, siblings, actually can be very intimate relationships in their level of trust and to allowing each one involved to SEE the other and be SEEN by the other. To be transparent with one another. Intimacy or “in to me you see” may be a large part of any relationship.