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In place of our “Buzz” gathering to preview upcoming courses, the Hive Lead Team sits down to talk about what’s coming this quarter. They reflect on a poem from Howard Thurman to launch our winter theme, “Reflection,” before sharing more about each upcoming Hive class.
To learn more and register for a class, visit our Upcoming Classes and Events page.
Though our walk through the Hive's domains is complete, the Hive from Home series continues with a conversation between Alice Connor and Troy Bronsink! Alice and Troy chat about the Enneagram and an upcoming Enneagram course that they're facilitating. Alice Connor is an Episcopal priest, Enneagram teacher, author, and campus minister.
You can find out more about Alice's work as an author here. And learn more about the community Alice pastors here.
Huge thanks to Michael Hester for the beautiful music you hear in this podcast. Michael is a multi-instrumentalist and producer creating in the Midwest. You can find his music here.
In this weeks episode, Troy chats with his good friend and colleague Daniel Hughes about collective action. Daniel Hughes is an abolitionist, pastor, and Hive facilitator. In turbulent times, Troy and Daniel's work together in cultivating mindfulness around antiracism has been a gift to the Hive community and beyond. We hope you'll enjoy their conversation.
You can learn more about Daniel's faith community and their work in Price Hill, Cincinnati here! Also, follow along with Daniel on Facebook here.
Huge thanks to Michael Hester for the beautiful music you hear in this podcast. Michael is a multi-instrumentalist and producer creating in the Midwest. You can find his music here.
In this weeks episode, we hear from Jeffrey Miller- longtime Hive member and local chef! Troy and Jeffrey have a fun conversation about the Mapping Tools domain, the Hive community during the pandemic, and Jeffrey's new ghost kitchen, Parts and Labor!
You can learn more and order food from Jeffrey's ghost kitchen, Parts and Labor, here.
Huge thanks to Michael Hester for the beautiful music you hear in this podcast. Michael is a multi-instrumentalist and producer creating in the Midwest. You can find his music here.
In this week's episode, Cassandra and Troy chat about her experience with the "Creative Expression" domain at the Hive. Cassandra is an artist with a robust inner-life, and she shows that by the way she describes creativity and mindfulness with resonating clarity.
Cassandra is doing incredible work as an LGBTQIA+ wedding and elopement photographer. Find out more about her work here.
Huge thanks to Michael Hester for the beautiful music you hear in this podcast. Michael is a multi-instrumentalist and producer creating in the Midwest. You can find his music here.
In this week's episode, Dominique Brown chats with Troy about her experience with the "Body" domain at the Hive. Her experiences in body classes have helped her learn a new way of "knowing beyond words" as she seeks to listen to her body, and she invites us to join her on that journey.
Dominique is a holistic educator, womanist, contemplative, and cultural worker. Her educational practice and community work are deeply rooted in values centering collective wellbeing. She is now pursuing doctoral research in womanist spirituality and contemplative education in the EDL program at Miami University. To learn more about Dominique and her work, visit her website at: https://dominiquemariebrown.wordpress.com/
Huge thanks to Michael Hester for the beautiful music you hear in this podcast. Michael is a multi-instrumentalist and producer creating in the Midwest. You can find his music here.
In this week's episode, Troy interviews Tina Hubert- a longtime Hive member raising a family and working in a local church while staying committed to contemplative practice. Tina shares about her introduction to the Hive, and how contemplative practice has served her through difficult seasons in her life.
Find out more about Troy Bronsink's upcoming class, "How Do I Start Meditating" here.
Huge thanks to Michael Hester for the beautiful music you hear in this podcast. Michael is a multi-instrumentalist and producer creating in the Midwest. You can find his music here.
In this week’s episode, LaShanda Sugg, longtime Hive member and professional healer, shares about her experience with the Hive and about the importance of “Healing Work”, one of the domains Hive classes are in.
Huge thanks to Michael Hester for the beautiful music you hear in this podcast. Michael is a multi-instrumentalist and producer creating in the Midwest. You can find his music here.
From the Hive is back! In the introduction to this miniseries, "Hive from Home", Hive director Troy Bronsink and Hive intern Chris LaRue chat about the 6 domains of the Hive that will be informing each coming conversation.
Huge thanks to Michael Hester for the beautiful music you hear in this podcast. Michael is a multi-instrumentalist and producer creating in the midwest. You can find his music here.
From the Hive is a contemplative space where meditative practice meets mindful everyday living. This is a pocket practice with Aziza Love. If this sparks an interest check out the entire conversation on episode 23.
Aziza Love – aka Alexis Thompson – is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who is the songstress of TRIIIBE, a group of artists exploring ideas through collaboration. For the past four years TRIIIBE has been working on performance, film and photography projects. Much of TRIIIBE's work reveal observations on identity and the politics of identity. Check them out at here.
You can also check out Aziza's upcoming class here.
If you don't have time now to listen to everything, feel free to skip ahead to where the meditation begins at 35:00 and then come back later for the conversation.
Troy Bronsink is the founder and director of The Hive - A Center for Contemplation, Art & Action. The Hive is a nonprofit located in the Northside neighborhood of Cincinnati. For $30/month, a Hive member can attend classes and events. If you're interested in this for yourself or would like to sponsor someone else to become a member, you can find more information here.
The intro and outro music is by Troy Bronsink. From the Hive is produced by Joey Taylor.
From the Hive is a contemplative space where meditative practice meets mindful everyday living. This is a pocket practice with Marthame Sanders. Marthame Sanders is an Atlanta-based dad, artist, and pastor.
A graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago, Marthame has served in ministry as international mission staff, youth director, and solo pastor. aijcast is his latest project, seeking to unite his passion for faith, art, and justice. Marthame and his wife, Elizabeth, keep busy parenting their two sons, ages 7 and 11, who are awesome but—let’s be honest—kind of immature. Marthame enjoys writing music, improvising on stage, and the fact that his two sons give him cover to play with Legos®. He will tell anyone who will listen (and some who won’t) about the documentary film series he and Elizabeth produced. Unfortunately, his bragging undermines his “street cred.”
The Host of From The Hive shares a practice inspired by a recent class at The Hive, his teacher James Finley and Meister Eckhart.
From the Hive is a contemplative space where meditative practice meets mindful everyday living. This is a pocket practice with Marsha Foster Boyd. If this sparks an interest check out the entire conversation on episode 22.
Marsha Foster Boyd, PhD, is a proven thought leader in the field of higher education. She spent 25 years as a professor, dean, accrediting officer and school president. A hallmark of her leadership is her passionate focus on bringing people together across boundaries to find new, fertile, not-so-common ground on which to build new relationships and strategies to affect growth in individuals, institutions and in our world. Check out the Bridge Collective to explore her most recent project.
If you don't have time now to listen to everything, feel free to skip ahead to where the meditation begins at 48:00 and then come back later for the conversation.
Troy Bronsink is the founder and director of The Hive - A Center for Contemplation, Art & Action. The Hive is a nonprofit located in the Northside neighborhood of Cincinnati. For $30/month, a Hive member can attend classes and events. If you're interested in this for yourself or would like to sponsor someone else to become a member, you can find more information at here.
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The intro and outro music is by Troy Bronsink. From the Hive is produced by Joey Taylor.
From the Hive is a contemplative space where meditative practice meets mindful everyday living. This is a pocket practice with LaWanda Thompson. If this sparks an interest check out the entire conversation on episode 21.
LaWanda Thompson is an award winning corporate executive. She is the Founder and President of Sustainable Outcomes LLC, a coaching, business consulting, and leadership development organization specializing in empowering leaders, teams, and companies to make long-lasting, sustainable differences in the world. Her background as a Ph.D. scientist, business leader in a Fortune 100 company, and Master Somatic Leadership Coach has uniquely shaped LaWanda’s professional career.
If you don't have time now to listen to everything, feel free to skip ahead to where the meditation begins at 42:00 and then come back later for the conversation.
Troy Bronsink is the founder and director of The Hive - A Center for Contemplation, Art & Action. The Hive is a nonprofit located in the Northside neighborhood of Cincinnati. After nearly 2 years of over 3,000 tickets to classes and events sold, The Hive has released its May/June classes. Go here to check out the offerings. For $30/month, a Hive member can attend classes and events. If you're interested in this for yourself or would like to sponsor someone else to become a member, you can find more information here.
The intro and outro music is by Troy Bronsink. From the Hive is produced by Joey Taylor.
From the Hive is a contemplative space where meditative practice meets mindful everyday living. This is a pocket practice with Varun Soni. Keaton Nelly provides the drum track. If this sparks an interest check out the entire conversation on episode 20.
Dr. Varun Soni is the Dean of Religious Life at the University of Southern California (USC) and the first Hindu to serve as the chief religious leader of an American university. Find out more here.
If you don't have time now to listen to everything, feel free to skip ahead to where the meditation begins at 38:00 and then come back later for the conversation.
Troy Bronsink is the founder and director of The Hive - A Center for Contemplation, Art & Action. The Hive is a nonprofit located in the Northside neighborhood of Cincinnati. After nearly 2 years of over 3,000 tickets to classes and events sold, The Hive is now announcing its May/June classes. Go here to check out the offerings.
For $30/month, a Hive member can attend classes and events. If you're interested in this for yourself or would like to sponsor someone else to become a member, you can find more information here.
We've just launched a new podcast called Common Good Podcast where we interview Walter Brueggemann, Peter Block and John McKnight. Check it out here.
The intro and outro music is by Troy Bronsink. From the Hive is produced by Joey Taylor.
From the Hive is a contemplative space where meditative practice meets mindful everyday living. This is a pocket practice with Lauren Bille. If this sparks an interest check out the entire conversation on episode 19.
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