A big part of our dream to offer healing and transcendence to the world is to do it through living and exploring and creating community together. Our intention is to start living together soon in upstate New York. It’s also clear to us that our community already exists in our connections through many channels today. Our aspirations are to practice intentional co-living, which means we meditate together, cook & work together, share responsibilities, learn together, and cultivate love and understanding by doing things like offering empathy sessions to each other, playing outside & inside, and generally celebrating life!
Values
Community – We see community as an important value in itself. This means we support each other and celebrate our wellbeing together. We make decisions together and work through conflict as it comes up with tools like non-violent communication and other empathy-based methods. We all contribute to and co-create the values expressed on this page. We prioritize living together intentionally as a way to enrich our lives and contribute to the community’s wellbeing.
Love – We believe that love is the essential wonder and power of being human — something we can cultivate and rest in that leads to a life that is encouraging, healing, transcendent, fulfilling and fun. We’re committed to learning about and practicing ways of love, through celebration, mourning and everything in between. Our dream is to act from love and to return to a place of love when different stimuli take us away from it. Concretely, we’re interested in finding ease for and transformation of our emotional wounds with trauma healing and other practices, expanding our capacity for love through meditation, celebrations and gratitude and following our dreams from that state of love.
Play – We believe that life is fun when we play. Our dream is to live life as play, and keeping coming at things from a place of intuition, lightness and flexibility to allow us to meet life’s challenges in the most easeful way.
Sounds interesting to you and want to know more about what it’s like to live at Tender Heart? Please contact us by sending an email to l.widrich@gmail.com, we’d love to chat!