An Evening of Explorative Human Connection
Thu, May 09
|18 Springs Community Healing Center
This communal event will delve into authentic and deep connection with others and self through alternative forms of connection such as eye contact meditation, authentic relating games, and caring touch. Facilitator: Addie Vasileva


Time & Location
May 09, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
18 Springs Community Healing Center, 2424 Reynolda Rd, Winston-Salem, NC 27106, USA
About The Event
This will be an opportunity to foster deep and authentic connection by skipping past the “Hi, how are you? What do you do for a living?” and into “Where are you in this crazy human life? How is your heart?”. Let us open a medicinal space to explore alternative ways of connection and intimacy, outside of the norms of social rules and conditionings, but rather in a safe, communal, consent-centered container. This will be an opportunity to understand, see, feel, and move more clearly and deeply in relation with others, simultaneously opening a path back to Self.
The evening will be centered around intentional eye contact meditations, supported by Authentic Relating games and guided physical reconnection with our own and others’ bodies. Exploring eye contact will look like 10-15 minute sessions of non-verbal, uninterrupted eye contact with another person at the gathering. This alternative way of connection can help break…