Courage to Connect

Find your people, Find your practice. We are a place where community and contemplation meet. No more trying to be mindful alone.The Hive exists to develop creative, compassionate, and mindfully-engaged citizens in the Cincinnati region, and online through small group classes and workshops. We have curated a collective of proven teachers, facilitators, and spiritual directors to help guide your learning in mindfulness, contemplation, art and action. We hope you'll try a class and like it enough to become a regular member. Your partnership helps make this nonprofit possible.(As a social enterprise, the Hive shares our story with photos of classes and events. If you are opposed to sharing your lovely face, let us know and we'll do our best to avoid that. But, by using an event ticket you agree to let The Hive share your image in photo, audio, and video form. For Zoom classes we occassionally announce if we elecet to record- please let your host or faciliator know if you do not want to be recorded.)

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"We can’t think ourselves into new ways of living, we must live ourselves into new ways of thinking."—Richard Rohr
In July 2017, after the hung jury Ray Tensing trial, two friends, Daniel Hughes, a black pastor from Price Hill, and Troy Bronsink, a white pastor from Bond Hill looked around for spaces to have difficult, courageous conversations about differing experiences of our same city, nation, and world. They decided to work together to facilitate spaces for these courageous conversations, convinening upwards of 70 people over the last two years. What arose were questions like:
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Does contemplation even make a difference in the “real world” of political and racial chaos? 
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How does our interior work go public? 
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Where can we practice meaningful conversations that model self-care and solidarity? 
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Courage to Connect is a course designed to facilitate brave space for dialogue (as opposed to debate), and mindful awareness. Like-mindedness can damage community, but this group is designed to emphasise how shared intention or “like-heartedness” can hold together a room of people with very different experiences and convictions. We seek to amplify the voices of those who aren’t often heard in the mainstream, without asking the most vulnerable in our gathering to bear the weight of the conversations.
This is a laid-back conversational space. Our approach benefits from the behavioral work of mindfulness and the socio-cultural wisdom of folks like Ibram X Kendi, Stuart Hall, angel Kyodo williams, Rhonda Magee, Cornel West, bell hooks, Bruce Perry, Parker Palmer and Howard Thurman to name a few.
A great class for those wanting to take the next step from contemplation to action, and who have the courage to connect in meaningful ways.
The Hive’s COVID19 Response
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We have gone completely virtual with all our classes, and will not be organizing gatherings in person at the Hive. 
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We can’t wait to show you the new space at 1628 Hoffner St! However, given the rapid changes we are waiting to announce drop-in hours until health and safety expectations have normalized.
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When we have updates, our primary way of informing you is via email. When you’re wondering what’s going on, please check there! 
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