Details
Facilitated by
La Shanda Sugg, featuring D. Lamar, Chris La Rue, and Troy Bronsink
Date/Time
Thursdays | 6:30-8:30pm ET | 6 weeks | Feb 19th - Mar 26th
Cost
$149 for all
Location
The Hive: A Center for Contemplation, Art, and Action
1628 Hoffner St Cincinnati, OH 45223 | In Person
About the Class
Domains
Description
What might we learn by letting go?
Across spiritual traditions and earth-based practices, surrender is not something that happens to us—it is something we can learn to cooperate with. From rituals of release, to practices of yielding, to the ultimate surrender of death itself, letting go has long been understood as a doorway into freedom, clarity, and deeper connection.
Letting Go Together: Learning to Yield without Disappearing invites participants into a communal, embodied exploration of surrender—not as resignation or self-erasure, but as a practice of choice, movement, and trust. In a time of unraveling, surrender becomes a way of traveling forward without dominance or control, learning instead to go with what is, and to follow Love even when the path is unclear or costly.
This six-week class will gather around the tenets of Kinetic Surrender:
Be with what is
Start by starting
Clarity is in surrender
Practice choice
Surrender while moving
When it’s time to go, it’s time to go
Guided by La Shanda Sugg, founder of Kinnetic Konnections and Core Faculty of The Hive, each session will weave together somatic grounding, reflective conversation, and embodied practice. Friends from The Hive—D. Lamar Hughes, Chris La Rue, and Troy Bronsink—will join throughout the series to offer poetry, story, and creative expressions that spark conversation and support deeper listening.
Together, we will practice yielding our armor, cynicism, and fear—while staying rooted in our bodies and connected to one another. Through journaling, small group reflection, and collective practice, participants will be invited to name what is present for them, trust what emerges, and build “reps” with surrender as a living, relational practice.
This is a space for community care, honest presence, and movement toward what liberates and connects us—learning, together, how to let go without disappearing.
Intention of the Hive
When you join a Hive experience, you're invited into our intention to create a group experience that's inclusive, rooted in mindfulness, and dynamically relational. We aspire for each Hive experience to model these intentions, and even to refine them as we continue to learn how to gather in a way that's transformative! The embodiment of these intentions by Hive facilitators, Members, and class participants is what makes the Hive the unique and healing social container that many experience it to be. To view our Hive Intentions for gathering, click here.
La Shanda Sugg
I am not a title. I am an experience.
Though I’ve held roles like Qualified Mental Health Specialist, Teacher, Therapist, Trainer, Consultant, and Coach, none of these words have ever fully captured the essence of what I offer—or how I be. I’ve stepped outside those boxes to live in the freedom of presence, power, and love.
I am a Spiritual Force of Divine Power and Love. My work is to walk alongside people as they journey home to themselves. I help expand the capacity to experience Love and Freedom—not as distant ideals, but as embodied truths.
I hold space for what’s ready to emerge. This isn’t therapy. This isn’t coaching. It’s a Soul Journey—an invitation to choose your own path, reclaim your sacred self, and live from the truth of your being.
D. Lamar
is a gifted speaker, poet, leadership coach, and community organizer. Holding a BA from Bluffton University and an MA from Bowling Green State University, he co-creates and uses his education in communication and organizing for the Future Change Makers Movement.
Born and raised in Northwest Ohio, D. Lamar is a passionate advocate dedicated to fostering inclusivity and driving positive change through faith, mindfulness, anti-racism, group facilitation, and community organizing.
Chris La Rue
Is the Executive Director of The Hive. As a spiritual innovator and budding public theologian, Chris is committed to integrating the wisdom of contemplative traditions in ways that make meaningful collective change possible. He is especially drawn to the spaces where spirituality meets justice and creativity, helping communities cultivate resilience and belonging in uncertain times.
Troy Bronsink
is a coach, contemplative leader, founder of The Hive, and co-founder of the Common Good Fellowship. He has worked with the Enneagram for over 25 years (trained with Suzanne Stabile, Richard Rohr, and Leslie Hershberger) and has applied Internal Family Systems (IFS) coaching in his practice for the past 5 years. He is an interspiritual teacher rooted in the Christian wisdom lineage—ordained, yet a conscientious objector to Christendom. Troy also trains facilitators and practitioners in a twelve week cohort on trauma-informed contemplative leadership.