The Life-Changing Magic of Decluttering

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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Facilitated by Ellen Bierhorst. This is a 4-week class.
Although this is a continuation of last session's class newcomers are valued and welcome!
Our home and office spaces are the outward manifestations of our sense of self-worth. Wouldn't you love to live and work in the peace and order you've dreamed of? This class will explore Marie Kondo's book, "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up." Using small group discussion and meditation, this class will provide the social support we all need to complete this daunting task.
Marie Kondo endows all of her things, those to be kept and cherished, and those to be gratefully released, with feelings and motives. Before she discards any object to the thrift store or the garbage bin she thanks it for its service and blesses it for its next “life." This class will utilize her techniques to let go of emotional ties, and of the feelings of guilt and attachment that underlie clinging to stuff. Marie says we accumulate more stuff than is good for us for two reasons: clinging to the past and fearing the future. The stuff you own, however organized, labeled and stored away, creates an energetic burden on you, the owner. As clutter diminishes and order emerges in the environment, we begin to feel better about ourselves and our prospects, and our brain becomes less muddled and confused.
Ellen Bierhorst has over 40 years of experience practicing Holistic Psychosocial/Spiritual Wellness as a psychotherapist, Alexander Technique teacher, community activist and recovering slob. Ellen has led various holistic healing groups here, in Ireland and in Israel. She is a spicy old lady and believes in sparking joy. Ellen formed a Kondo group last Fall and after ten bi-weekly meetings, this pilot group has amassed a powerful toolkit you can benefit from now.
The class will meet on 7/11, 7/18, 7/25, and 8/1