Human Connections
Date: Saturday, May 11, 2024
Timing: Sign in & Socializing @ 7:15pm
Workshop 7:30-9:30pm
Doors locked at 7:30pm
Location: Watertown Center for Healing Arts
22 Mt. Auburn Street Watertown, MA
COST: $38 in advance, $45 at the door CASH ONLY at the door
Please Bring: Your own water bottle, a journal may be useful
Attire: Comfortable clothes (think yoga pants!)
Parking: Bring coins for municipal lot across the street
The space is on the 2nd floor and there is no elevator.
OVERVIEW
Humans are social beings, designed to thrive through our connections with each other: emotionally, physically, intellectually, spiritually. We are not built to go it alone! So why do we often get mired down in our differences and allow those differences to keep us separate, preventing ourselves and each other from being our best selves? Join this exploration of self while engaging with others. Each interactive two hour workshop has it’s own theme with invitations to acknowledge our shared strengths through our shared vulnerabilities.
Do you wish that your conversations with yourself and interactions with others filled up your emotional “gas tank"? That they had a more nurturing feel to them? That they resulted in feeling deep human connections? In this swirling world in which we live in, it can be challenging to find that place of balance, that place of calm and ease. Finding our way to our own peace is key to creating satisfying engagement with others. It is healthy for our bodies, minds, and emotional well-being, and it’s contagious!
Revel in a relaxed, non-judgmental environment to practice tapping into your true self, deepen connections with others, and strengthen our common humanity.
WHAT TO EXPECT
• Invitations to participate in a variety of activities - some lighthearted, some with a more serious feel. And as with any true invitation, YOU choose to engage or not.
• Opportunities for social engagement with others via pairs, small groups or the larger group.
• Time for self-reflection.
• Group of no more than 20 adults (only 18 years of age and older please!)
GUIDELINES
To create a safe and welcoming space for all, partaking in this event means that you agree to:
• Respect yourself
• Respect others
• Maintain Confidentiality
• Inclusivity
COVID Safety
This is a mask friendly environment - your choice around wearing a mask will be supported!
A s a kind and responsible action, please complete a rapid COVID test the day of the event. If you let me know prior to the start of the event that you tested positive, we will sadly miss you and I will gladly issue you a credit for a future event!
Your host for the evening:
Lydia Carbone, MSW
carbonelydia@gmail.com
www.LydCarbone.com
Mediator, group leader, trainer, facilitator, Lydia has been leading groups of humans for over a decade in finding their voice and building their connections with others. She brings teachings from her experience as a social worker, yoga practitioner, massage therapist, and personal growth workshop attendee, mixed in with her sense of humor and compassion. Lydia's core beliefs include:
- We humans are more alike than we are different (although sometimes it takes a lot of digging to find those commonalities).
- “Othering” is one of the most destructive forces on our planet (including when we “other” ourselves).
- Each of us is genuinely doing the best we can in any given moment (even when what we are doing doesn’t meet others’ needs, somewhere in there it is meeting a need we ourself have).
