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2025 Reflections

Whoa, a year is almost over, and I can honestly say it feels complete. What completes me is all the sessions we had this year with people from various places, in different seasons, and environments. The sessions took place in person at community centers, retreat centers, and forests, as well as online. The people who have attended the regular sessions always showed up as themselves, and our connections have deepened with each gathering.

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Every gathering's purpose was to

  • Expand our awareness of being human.

  • Connect with and learn from each other.

  • Recognizing that being human is not a small task.

  • Remembering we all have a good heart.

  • Practicing our most beneficial tool, our breath and stillness.


Going through the sessions with you, none of them would have been as enriching, fun, and memorable without you: you and your input mattered.


As much as my word of the year was less, being with inspiring, grounded, and curious human beings like you was anything but less. It was everything I could have hoped for and more.


Reflecting on my word of the year, I definitely have done less of the things I am not passionate about. It also includes being more aware of my phone use and how technology affects us. Lessening the dependence on external factors and, at the very least, practicing my awareness around them.


I have noticed that reducing our external consumption is challenging. Everywhere we look, there is another thing I haven't done, bought, read, listened to, or looked into, and it becomes even harder to trust our instincts and gut. Especially given how easily AI is finding its way into our daily lives.

AI and advanced technology do offer novelty and support, allowing a text like this to take 5 to 15 minutes instead of 90+. And yet, there is something that happens when we linger over a word or a thought process: something undefinable happens in our minds. A chemical reaction, a neural connection that makes us think about something we have no idea where it came from. Almost magical. That's the novelty I am seeking. It's those unexplainable moments I created on my own, without significant help, maybe with the help of other incredible minds like you, through conversations and discussions that aren't geared towards perfection.


Moving closer to the end of this year and reflecting on how to move on in 2026, it's those "insignificant" moments of being bored, pausing and slowing down, and wondering what the epiphany of "not knowing" has to do with anything.


My 2025 reflection leads me to say this. I want to continue building on what this year has presented to me. More human connection, more revelations on how to integrate modern technology without sacrificing our human existence, and expanding on extraordinary

discoveries about the phenomena of being human.


I'm looking forward to furthering our gatherings and remembering that the number one purpose is to embrace our humanness. Our human existence depends on it.





 
 
 

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