UPCOMING

To remind ourselves to move

Working from home is a terrible recipe for forgetting to move, and fantastic at prompting Apple Health to judge how few steps I’m taking in the day.

That’s why for this month’s Happy Hour, we’re excited to welcome Dr Kai Koch, an emergency physician based in London with an interest in lifestyle medicine. Dr Kai will be sharing with us the importance of movement in nurturing our health and wellbeing, with a focus on some simple steps we can all make in our own lives. I hope we might take this as a gentle invitation to get those extra steps in.

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Ritual v2

June was a month of learning and growing for all of us. We have been getting great feedback from the gracious attendees of Ritual in the Kernel Care Space, and Jan has been hard at work integrating all of that into an improved Ritual experience. To highlight a few key takeaways:

• We learnt the importance of intentionally grouping Ritual participants to create a more welcoming and open space for everyone.

• We grappled with scheduling conflicts across global timezones as our healers travelled over summer.

• Tatiana grounded us with the truth that Ritual is about the participants not the tools.

Special thanks to Ray for sharing a collaborative approach to Ritual using Miro boards, which informs a lot of the design changes in the upcoming version. If you would like to participate in beta-testing the new Ritual experience, let us know.

CATCH-UP

Some new faces!

This month, we welcome four new additions to the network. Making HEA part of their internship experience are Ngyuen and Hoang Thang, from Fullbright University in Vietnam. They will be assisting the Outreach Squad in working hard to bring more like-minded people together, here at Happily Ever After.

They are also learning super fast about web3 and the opportunities that DAOs bring to social organization. Watch them give us a presentation on everything they’ve learnt about web3, just a week after they joined us!

Joining us as a healer this month, is @msjoedor. Jo is a holistic coach with an ever bubbly personality, who we couldn’t be more excited to welcome into the community. You can check out her twitter and bio to find out more about her!

June’s letters

🌳 Season 3 Kickoff

We also kicked off Season 3 in June, with the theme - Grow. With objectives and key results locked in place, we are excited for everything the new season might bring our way!

TODO

July’s global check-in

Try this activity for the month of June and let us know by 31st July how it went for you on any of our community/social channels. POAPs for attending and sharing your experience at any of our live events. It’ll only take 10 minutes, I promise.

Find a quiet and comfortable space where you can sit or lie down.

Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths, inhaling slowly through your nose and exhaling through your mouth. Focus on the sensation of your breath entering and leaving your body.

Scan your body from head to toe and notice any areas of tension or discomfort. Take a mental note of these sensations without judgment.

After the body scan, bring your attention to your emotions and mood. How are you feeling today? Are you experiencing any stress, anxiety, or joy? Allow yourself to acknowledge and accept whatever emotions arise.

Take a moment to reflect on your recent activities and habits. Are there any positive choices you've made for your health and well-being? Celebrate these accomplishments and give yourself credit for taking care of yourself.

Similarly, identify any areas where you may need improvement. Are there any unhealthy habits or choices you've been making? Without judgment or self-criticism, make a mental note of these areas as opportunities for growth and positive change.

Finally, set an intention or goal for the day or week ahead that aligns with your health and well-being. It could be as simple as drinking more water, taking regular breaks from sitting, or incorporating more fruits and vegetables into your meals. Write them down in a journal, or even on your phone.

Take one more deep breath, open your eyes, and gently bring yourself back to the present moment.

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With Gratitude,
Shan

A timely time to talk about timing habits

Has it been hard for you to keep up certain habits? Or maybe you’re trying a new routine but it doesn’t seem to be working out for you. Maybe it is time for you to stop wasting time and start doing things at the right time 🤓 .

Marie Gombert is a post-doctoral researcher from the SRI Institute. She’ll be sharing about the concept of time from the perspective our body functions. This could potentially explain why your routines are not working for you. A key session to attend especially if you need an action plan to achieve your life goals!

Yes, it's time

Ritual v1.3 and Vital v1.1

We’ve concluded our beta with Kernel Community and….. they said yes! We’re super thrilled to announce that HEA has opened our first Care Space with Kernel Community! We’ll be holding weekly Rituals with them while continuing to develop the experience and the tech behind it. This means we’ll also be looking to build our roster of healers who’d like to actively participate and reap the benefits of a positive sum network.

Please reach out to us at hello@hea.care | Telegram | Discord to find out how you can get involved. If you know of other communities that could use a Care Space, please feel free to suggest or connect us directly.

It has been a great challenge and extremely fulfilling. Kernel fellows have been honestly gracious in helping us identify gaps in the initial design of the experience Each Ritual group has helped build on the next phase of rituals and the accompanying collective monitoring digital tool (Vital). That being said, each ritual is going to be so unique because it is human-led with the help of Vital tooling. If you want to experience what it’s like to heal with like-minded supportive people, let us know.

Look out for the next Ritual

REFLECTIONS

Learnings from our global network of care spaces

A common thread at our catch-ups this month is about energy expense. Due to professional/academic expectations, parental obligations, relational tensions, skill-confidence dip, just to name a few. But, what stood out was the unexplainable lows that seems to drag on even as we get pulled into joyous and not so joyous happenings.

For healers particularly, showing up for someone they feel responsible for, and having enough energy to be present when providing care to others is mission critical.

One strategy that came up was journaling — a super simple and effective tool for getting an overview of all tasks at hand. Then pairing up energising ones with energy depleting ones. Or prioritising tasks that needs more headspace earlier in the day — also known as front-loading. A concept that borrows a page from product development.

Another strategy that came up was about rationing your available energy with spoons, (or marbles — any object that is tangibly finite in the most realistic sense.) This analogy is commonly used to help people suffering from severe chronic illnesses explain the frame of mind they have to be in when strategising basic life needs such as getting out of bed, getting dressed, and preparing their meals. So do talk about it with care.

If you enjoy the freedom of having a healthier being, then this is a nudge to cultivate a deeper appreciation for what you have in abundance. Turn it into meaningful action instead of taking it for granted.

Our core healers in the network’s global Care Space are two more check-ins away from completing Tania’s MasterMind Accountability program. Well done team for showing up as best as you can for one another the past 6 weeks! 

CATCH-UP

We doubled down on Happy Hours in May

READ

May’s letters on health

TO DO

June’s global check-in

Try this activity for the month of June and let us know by 30 June how it went for you on any of our community/social channels. POAPs for attending and sharing your experience at any of our live events.

Listen to your body and journal your daily activities.

One on page:

What signals are your body giving you that something is going wrong? It could be as mundane as the usual fatigue due to delaying bedtime, a nagging pain due to bad posture or not seeking treatment for a persistent symptom. 

Repeated symptoms that become chronic could occur for years before it becomes a critical illness. Don’t take this amazing signal mechanism for granted. Prevent it while you still can.

One the other page:

Is there any part of your body that feels good? Not used to noticing pleasure? How about the absence of pain? What have you been doing that makes you feel good in the long run? Is it a good habit that could be repeated? What have you been doing well?

Being aware of what is going on well is just as important. Maybe we could learn a thing or two and apply it to areas where we need help. Reminding ourselves that we are capable of doing something right. 

Take care,

Jan

We've been talking a lot about having meaning and purpose in life. How has your view of a meaningful life changed with the availability of new tools at your fingertips? At the next community gathering, we’ll have Prof. Agnis Stibe discuss this key question on the purpose of life. Stibe is an engaging stories speaker. His research is very relevant to everyday life and his stories are interesting. Hope you can make it! :)

Save your spot

Get a Care Space for your community!

We’ve started running our first trial of an in-community Care Space with Kernel Community — an open, peer-to-peer, lifelong network to learn, question, play and discover web3. Thank you for entrusting us to ignite care!

Requests and discussion for three other communities underway! 🤞🤞

Care Spaces are intentional areas of time, set aside to check in on your community’s health and well-being. As the name suggests, being in a care space is about practicing acts of care. It can be listening, being kind, showing gratitude, or motivating one another to cultivate healthier habits. Unfortunately, such simple and small acts of care are often overshadowed by never ending ‘busy-ness’.

We help communities start Care Spaces. To experience it first, join the next Ritual in our HEA Care Space.

More about Care Spaces

Ongoing network activities

MasterMind “Odyssea” Program by Tania Kodliuk

Our accountability group is going strong. Call it collective power, coincidence or luck, we are only into the 3rd week and all of us have achieved some parts of our goals. I believe we are a powerful bunch. Despite some personal down moments, we are amazed by our own commitment to show up for one another. Collective energy manifestation for realz 😉.

I was unsure what I hoped to get out of the program. But I was ready to do something about it because I am tired of not having a more intentional direction in life. The valued-based goal setting workshop before the sessions got me started to think a little deeper. Even though I ended up changing my goals twice, I feel better because I became more conscious about life. — Jan

If you feel like your organisation or community is lacking focus or needs a little kicker to drive momentum, this program might just be what you need. If you’re ready to make change, hit the button below to set-up a Care Space.

I AM READY

If you’re not part of any community or organisation but want to participate, let us know anyway.

Train your monkey mind with Finding Stillness Meditation

Ee Peng will be back for another walking and sitting meditation session on Sunday, 21 May. For the last series, we had people join us from London, Rome, Kenya and Singapore. It was interesting to hear and see how others were finding stillness in their own unique settings. Despite being in a different place from everyone, I became more conscious about the details of my environment — knowing that we are all connected in one way or another.

Here’s what another attendee had to say for a glimpse of the experience. 

“I get distracted easily but Ee Peng was able to guide my experience with a tone that is gentle and enthralling.” — Daniela

Join the meditation

Read this month’s letters

ICYM, here’s a round-up of this month’s topics on our team’s mind:

• Arguments for Universal Coaching

• The Pharmacologist’s Guide to Tackling Obesity

Update on network re-coordination

We’ve moved work-related communications to Discourse for task-focused tracking and documentation. If you’re a Healer and missed the invite, please let Shan know through either one of our two main community social channels — Discord and Telegram.

And last but not least… shouting about a surprise feature :D

We were featured on New_Public — a community of thinkers, designers and technologists imagining and building the digital public spaces of the future 🎉 !

Thank you for reading.

<3 and care,

Jan

March was quite an eventful one for us — kickstarted our first MasterMind accountability group, launched a new meditation series with Ee Peng, activated our Twitter community manager Victor and most importantly, a month of clarity on how different parts of the network are coming together.

Before jumping in, here’s a quick recap on how we got here…

The evolution of HEA was influenced by earlier research in community-centered healthcare, as explain in our early articles on Cuba and honey bees. But deep down, we also know that we can better flourish by normalizing a culture of care. This gives meaning to HEA’s key mission — to build a preventive healthcare network rooted in the communities we live, work and play. A vision cemented further by Singapore’s bold step towards integrating preventive healthcare.

Not until recently, after testing Ritual, running programs and hosting experiences, we arrived at defining our key offering — Care Spaces.

Activating spaces of care to accelerate preventive health

Care Spaces are what we call small groups of people bound together by a common purpose of increasing their health and well-being. The next couple of months will be focused on activating Healers and seeding Care Spaces in online communities, DAOs and organizations.

To steward these Care Spaces, we rely on our Healers, who are the core members of our network. Healers participate in the network by contributing one or more of the following:

1. Holding Rituals for other Healers in the global HEA network or in local communities

2. Offering Programs to train or develop other Healers

3. Hosting Experiences aimed at encouraging self-care for other Healers

Rituals are the network’s mission in practice. A regular and intentional social healing practice that gathers small groups of no more than five people. Rituals are programmed to enable participants to practice regular self-care and accountability towards others. Rituals can be thematic and led by Healers of specific expertise or rituals can also be generally guided practices by a community Healer.

Programs are structured experiences with a defined outcome offered by Healers, with the intention to impart applicable knowledge and skills to support the personal development of other Healers. They can be a cohort-based series over a period of time or a one-time workshop/event. Programs are portable, resources and practices that Healers can apply in their spaces. Programs can be proposed to potential Healers as opportunities for growth. For example, training to be a certified embodied facilitator.

Experiences are single or recurring events hosted by Healers.

Our key focus for the next three months will be to activate Healers and Care Spaces within communities. Here’s what it looks like putting the following framework into action.

Connecting the dots

All of the above will be coordinated on Vital, our software that will also provide a dashboard measuring the well-being of participating communities.

How to participate — an open call

There are several ways you could participate in the network now:

1. If you’re a health or well-being service provider (including coaches and facilitators), offer a program or experience that would benefit others in the network — become a Healer.

2. Create/Request a Care Space for your community

3. Connect your members to the HEA Network to use Vital — schedule an onboarding.

4. Support the cause by donating - read: Treasury Contribution Guide

5. Participate and experience what care is like with Ritual

On top of these, we are also pursuing partnerships with other service providers who can provide specific expertise or professional care.

Write to us at hello@hea.care or find us on Discord

Ending off this month’s update with our first MMG Group looking serious in alpha state working on our goals 😋

Take care,

Shan and Jan

If you’ve been following our updates, we’re in the thick of Season 2, working through two main projects: Ritual and Vital. Spotlighting also in this update are three healers and their upcoming projects/spaces. As a step forward, we’re humbly welcoming contributions to build our reserves so that contributors and healers of the network can be rewarded.

Project Milestones

‘Vital’ is checking in on how you are flourishing

Other than being a dashboard and platform to connect people and experiences, ‘Vital’ is emerging to become a tool to track both individual and community flourishing. While others are focusing on objectivity to measure health and the quantified self, we’re diving into the subjectivity of it all. We’re looking forward to revealing an MVP soon. Our vision for it to help us observe how our actions and intentions transform and transcend ourselves remains solid.

Ritual is now beta-testing

To recap real quickly, Ritual is a practice that we are designing for members to bond over a shared pursuit of vitality.

After a three-hour design session hosted by Cami, we’ve managed to contain our desires and vision down onto paper, closer to some level of applicability. We’ve tested the beta amongst active contributors and everyone enjoyed it! So far, feedback has been reassuring and through it, we also discovered several needs that others might too be seeking to resolve.

Now, we’re inviting everyone else in the network and trusted communities to try it before we put it out there.

Try Ritual

Healers and upcoming spaces

Tania Kodliuk, Chief Mastermind Alchemist — MasterMind Odyssea

Mastermind group (MMG) “Odyssea” is a space to make one’s dreams come true through transformational shifts in body, mind, and spirit with the power of like-minded people.

This framework is created to ignite a transformational shift in your life. Expect to gain clarity and empowerment, and manifest a new reality.

In this 8-week journey, you will meet weekly and work in groups (4-6 people). Set goals, define an action plan, boost motivation, get support, share knowledge and keep each other accountable. Form a group with your community or expand your circle!

Sign-up for Mastermind Odyssea

About Tania

A true alchemist, Tania combines neuroscience, AI, and psychology to create a powerful framework that aligns your body, mind, and spirit for a journey to a fulfilled and joyful life. PhD in applied mathematics, AI innovator, and serial entrepreneur - Tania’s blend of spirituality and technology empowers you to bring purpose to your daily life.

Because what is the purpose, other than something we haven’t quite put into human understandable frameworks in the first place? Mastermind Odyssea is for those, who are ready for change. You will be surprised how much you can achieve in 8 weeks!

Ee Peng, Meditation Facilitator — Finding stillness

How can we tame the monkey mind, and experience peace even amidst chaos? Just sitting- shikantaza, a practice of Soto-Zen tradition allows one to be in touch with one’s inner stillness.

Join me as we first mindfully observe various relationships in nature through a 10-min walk. After which we will go through the important body postures, warm-ups and breathing exercises that can enable concentration for longer meditation periods, this session will end with a 20-minute meditation.

Sign-up for Finding Stillness

About Ee Peng

Ee Peng has experienced 3 years of monastic practice in Antaiji - a Japanese Soto-Zen monastery highly self-sustainable with farming vegetables and rice as part of daily practice. She is now the co-founder of Soil Social, creating urban soil regenerative practices in the hope of repairing the deep divide between Man and Nature.

Victor Kairuki, DeSci Youth Advocate — Digital Deep-dive

Victor is designing a program that aims to help individuals discover what they would like to heal. He believes that health and the environment are very closely intertwined. To be healthy also means ensuring that our soil and our biodiversity are healthy too. He is looking for people who believe that various sounds of nature when matched with a person’s interest, can complement and motivate their healing journey.

He is looking for:

• People to help verify other communities that are aligned with HEA and pursuing health/well-being as a core value

• Sound engineers/artists/musicians who work with various sounds of nature

Join HEA Discord to collab

About Victor

Hailing from Nairobi, Kenya, Victor is an advocate for Digital Wellness. His mission is to uplift youths in the DeSci space, and he has a passion for user well-being in the web 3 space. Hear about his principles on treading mindfully, intentionally and humanely as the internet transitions from web 2 to web 3 at our monthly community gather — Happy Hour. He also shared how others are using web 3 technologies to heal the world.

Growing our treasury

As our network is gaining traction, we’d like to direct some energy towards building our treasury. This is so we can really put our positive-sum theory to the test and move sooner towards rewarding our contributors, healers and members who have been helping us build the network.

Currently, we are using $HP (Healer Point) as a native network token to track early supporters and enable the network to retroactively reward them in the future. 1 $HP, is equivalent to 1 min of work put towards the network. So for example, a 60-minute task, entitles a compensation of 60 $HP. These reputation-based $HP tokens enable holders to approve on-chain payments and decisions without centralized multi-sig signers.

All healers and contributors to the network have the autonomy to propose how much they would like to be compensated according to the following values:

1. We are all of fundamental equal worth.

2. We value intrinsic motivation over extrinsic motivation, shared purpose follows profit.

3. We believe in total responsibility and collective power

4. Transparent information (on treasury balances and accounting)

When the network is able to generate a sustainable amount of revenue into the treasury, the healers might choose to pay a profit-sharing percentage equally to all healers. The timing and percentage of the profit-share will be decided by a future agreement between healers. This is in line with our belief that all healers are equally valued and prevents incentive-gaming and politics.

How we are growing the treasury

Before implementing the planned recurrent membership fee, we are trying out a ‘payer-decides’ or ‘donation’ model. This is so our contributors and healers can be awarded for their work sooner. There are multiple ways to contribute.

If you’re participating in a Space (program/experience):

1. Before it starts to lock in your commitment

2. After, based on how much value it has brought you after

3. Or both!

Despite the widely understandable need to have sustenance, asking for funds is always a sticky topic. But believing the potential impact the network can bring, we’re putting aside insecurities and sharing the gateways available. In other words, we welcome contributions anytime if you like what we’re doing! 🤓

Contribute here

Last words…

Juggling routine, schedule and energy levels seems to be a common theme ringing through the network in February. Whether someone is in Argentina, New Jersey, London, Singapore or Rome, we found that we were all trying to get over similar challenges albeit in different contexts.

That said, we’re amazed ourselves how our pursuit of health has brought together people from five different continents. Sometimes the world seems larger than life, and other times it can feel quite suffocating… but know that you’re never really alone. There’s someone out there who is like you and looking for support from someone like you.

Take care and we hope to meet you soon.

​DAO-ing up

​Things are taking shape really nicely! We’re aiming to build an MVN (minimum viable network) by the end of June. Shan has been hard at work putting together the minimum viable protocols so that we can begin functioning more like a DAO. So far, we’ve managed:

• ​The passing of decisions and project proposals over the agreements process

• ​Awarding of $HP to log contributions (we love Colony DAO’s reputation-based structure)

​Season #1 —> Season #2

​After a season of asking better questions, we’re now putting answers into action.

​Active projects this season:

• ​Project Vital — a dashboard for the network to connect, learn and grow. Observe how the activities you take part in transforming you as a person. And at the same time, how your intention transcends to others.

• ​Project Ritual — a common practice that nourishes mind, body and soul. A grounding yet evolving experience that creates belonging over a shared pursuit for longevity (and healthspan).

​Builders and healers who desire to make happily ever after a possibility can join us.

Book an onboarding call

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Upcoming space...

​Sign up for Mastermind group (MMG) “Odyssea”

In March, we’ll be hosting our first collaboration space with Tania Kodliuk, a true alchemist combining neuroscience, AI and psychology. She has created a powerful framework that aligns your body, mind and spirit for a journey to a fulfilled and joyful life. Her blend of spirituality and technology empowers you to bring purpose to your daily life. In an 8-week journey, expect to gain clarity and empowerment, and manifest a new reality. A transformational shift with the power of like-minded people. Sign your community up or join as an individual. Limited spots available!

Sign up

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Healing is better when social...

Activating preventative care one community at a time.

​MetaGame Community Call (6 Jan)

​Jan shared HEA’s vision at MetaGame and discussed opportunities to build communities with a culture of care. Hop into the session retroactively on Youtube.

​ADAwell Community Gathering (18 Jan)

​Jan led a somatic stress relief meditation at ADAwell’s weekly wellness gathering. It was amazing to witness how just 10 mins of recognising stress affects one's body, can do wonders.

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​DeSci Singapore x VitaDAO (17 Jan)

​Gavin co-hosted DeSci Singapore with VitaDAO. Thought leaders and change makers — Balaji (on 'Network States'), Cat Hu (on funding ), Dong Lu (on science of reproductive health in women), Kamil Pabis (on decentralising aging research) and Tom Howard (on equitable regulatory environment) came together to shape the potential of decentralised research on longevity. To sum it up, longevity is not a new pursuit but accessibility and democratization are creeping up with the maturation of new technologies.

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​Happy Hour (18 Jan)

​We kicked the year off with a body-mind-movement beta experience led by Tatiana Rosa. Participants were led towards greater familiarity with their body-mind connection enhancing the possibility of being present in the moment. It was done through a guided experience of a given body structure and perceptual relationship (specifically the volume of the body, its relationship to space and gravity, and the movements our eyes make to relate to the screen of a communication device). The exchange of participants' feedback built the knowledge of our own experiences with one another. Adding to the complexity and richness of the experience, setting the tone for what our community sets out to be.

​Keen to share an experience? Write to hello@hea.care

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​And to end this note, here are a couple of reads from The Pink Zone — a research exploration of the intersections in healthy living, technology and public health.

• ​A Closer Look at Singapore's Hybrid Healthcare System — with continuous effort from the government, Singapore could be the first nation to achieve a truly preventive healthcare model.

• ​Tea Time! for the Brain — the chemistry behind tea's benefits for neurodegenerative disease.

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​Take Care,

​Jan and Tatiana

Jumping right in…

Things to do

​🌐 Virtually - whatever has happened this year has happened. You did well and did the best you can. No time for regrets - only constructive reflections. If you’re feeling unsettled, talk about it with someone you trust. Or, have a refreshing exchange with a complete stranger at 🤗 Practice Real Talk (a code of trust for privacy from both sides applies.)

​Don’t want to talk? Manifest silently at our 🧘 Group Meditations.

​🇬🇧 London - Shan is hosting IRL experiences. Join him for🚶Mindful Walking @ Regents Park, or ❄️ Cold exposure @ Hampstead Heath (yes it involves dipping into the water - surprisingly addictive that comes with healthful benefits).

View all HEA events

​🇸🇬 Singapore - IRL, Gavin is organising DeSci Singapore on 18 Jan. Attend if you’re excited or curious about how blockchain tech can propel academia and clinical research.

​"A Schelling point for academics and web3 wellness enthusiasts to drive towards a healthy, decentralised and open science movement.” - Gavin

RSVP for DeSci SG

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Patching for clearer communications

​Kudos to Ambrose, our new site is up. We took some feedback to heart and made changes to showcase the ‘how’ more tangibly. The quest for clarity continues with an audit of our key messaging (access available to Healers only. Keen to build HEA DAO with us? Apply here.)

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Onward 2023 - Events/Spaces to look out for

• ​Weekly Well-being and Sleep Awareness Events w/ ADAWell DAO

• ​Accountability Mastermind w/ Tania

• ​Mind-Body Somatic Experiments w/ Tatiana

​Get notified when registrations for these limited-space events go live.

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ICYM - After Hours on 9 Dec

​At our last community gathering, Panvala joined us to share how communities can raise funds for one another. In today’s economy, many businesses make money by selling your attention, data, and habits as a product. Panvala’s idea is to give you and your community the option to only receive content, resources and solutions from other businesses/communities aligned with your values.

​In short, Panvala is a digital treasury for communities to share by using a stamp collection mechanism. Get in touch with the team on their website or jump right into their Discord here. Their welcoming founder Niran (founder) and lovely community manager Rachel are ever ready to get you up to speed.

​And if anyone has not asked… “How are you doing, really?” Give authentic relating a try - read last month’s update 👉 #2022-Nov Note)

​And finally…

​Let’s end with gratitude, and start with abundance

​What does your grateful list look like for 2022? Send a picture, a list or anything - we’d love to share and spread the power of gratitude within the community and beyond. Share with us in #vibes on Discord, tag us on social @hea_care, drop it in Telegram or write to us hello@hea.care

​On this note, here’s a BIG SHOUT OUT to all our healers, members, those who were just passing by, friends, and family. One way or another, you have supported our mission by sticking with us through the many iterations. Thank you 💚.

​That’s all folks. Stay positive, we’ll get where we want to be and see you soon.

​<3 Jan

This is a major milestone because a decentralised community/organization like us, does not have a single source of authority. A self-managed decision-making process enables you to propose ideas and seek consent from others in the community. This means you can be part of various foundational efforts such as collectively deciding on common values that shape how we function.

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2. Highlights from After Hours

A regular community hangout to share gratitude, build meaningful friendships, and discuss updates/directions of HEA.

11 Nov - we had some fun drawing what our desires for preventive healthcare would look like. The exercise revealed connecting thoughts on physiological and psychological support for both providers and receivers of healthcare in a world of chaos. ICYM, here are the masterpieces and thoughts behind them.

25 Nov - Warmspace.io shared their latest interactive virtual communication program allowing members to connect quickly but deeply. Delphine (Warmspace co-founder) ran a workshop on Authentic Relating - a communication practice to build better relationships. Tip: Instead of simply sharing boring objective facts and one-sided subjective accounts, try adding your thoughts and emotions in your conversations. Overview of the method here.

👉 OPEN CALL: Anyone is welcome to suggest, share or hold experiences related to preventive health and communities - drop a note in #ops channel on Discord or email hello@hea.care

3. Collective-building Projects

⭐ SQ-3: Experience Design Session

Problem Statement: “How can we create health communities that are joyful, inclusive and seamless that people actually want?”

This project seeks to answer a broad but fundamental question. The goal is to leverage collective sense-making around the topics of preventive health by asking the right questions. The desired outcome is having projects / spaces that every member of the community can find value in being a part of. Join us for hour-long design sessions - there's one every week. At the end of the project, a whitepaper of our discussions will be published.

🚧 SQ-5: Barriers-to-Entry Research

Problem Statement: How can we get people who resonate with our vision to become active contributors?

This project started with a series of feedback sessions on our comms stack. The interviews revealed gaps in our messaging and helped us clarify how like-minded individuals can. take part. Ambrose our core developer is currently working on a site revamp, slated to relaunch in the first week of December. Follow-up feedback sessions will be conducted. Stay-tuned.

Momentum is building, and we look forward to wrapping up 2022 with a mind & body experience and a sharing from Panvala at the last two After Hours community gatherings of the year. Hope to see you at any of our upcoming project/event activities this month!

<3
Jan

Here are some ways you can be part of HEA:

1. Join the waitlist on Telegram or hop right into Discord

2. Become a contributor - Apply for healership