Details
Facilitated by
Amy Tuttle and Troy Bronsink
Date/Time
Tuesdays | 7:00-9:00pm ET (alternating in person at the Hive, and online) | April 14th - May 19th
Cost
Free to Members | $149 for Non-Members
Location
Zoom | Online
The Hive: A Center for Contemplation, Art, and Action | In Person
1628 Hoffner St Cincinnati, OH 45223
About the Class
Domains
Description
How do we stay rooted in contemplation while engaging the real demands of our communities and our time?
This Hive course is designed for experienced contemplatives, especially Hive Fellows entering their second year — a space to deepen practice while stepping more fully into shared leadership. Together we will explore what authentic civic engagement looks like when it grows from presence, discernment, and relationship rather than urgency or performance.
Engaged Contemplation is not a traditional class as much as a practicum. Using an emergent strategy approach, participants will help shape the priorities of our learning together. Fellows will be invited to co-create the direction of the course, practice leading portions of our time, and experiment with ways of bringing their own gifts into community life with integrity and care.
Across six sessions — held both online* and in person at the Hive — we will share "hand-holds" needed for meaningful engagement: deep listening, shared discernment, mapping our skill sets, navigating difference, skillful action (métis) and responding creatively to what is unfolding among us and around us. Through embodied practices, dialogue, and peer reflection, we will support one another in translating inner work into lived leadership.
*3 weeks will be online with Amy via zoom, 3 weeks will be in person at The Hive with Troy. Your facilitators will let you know which weeks will be online vs. in person.
At the heart of the course is a shared question:
"What does commitment to genuine support look like— through rupture and repair, into deeper levels of community care?”
Together we will practice building collective wisdom, courageous action, and forms of leadership that emerge from relationship— strengthening the muscles needed to participate in the world with humility, clarity, and hope.
This Class Is for You If…
You’ve been practicing contemplation for a while and feel ready to explore how inner stillness can meet the complexity of real community life.
You’re a Hive Fellow entering your second year and want a space that supports deeper leadership, shared responsibility, and collective discernment.
You’re curious about what civic engagement looks like when it grows from presence rather than pressure, from relationship rather than performance.
You want to experiment with emergent strategy—shaping the learning environment together rather than receiving a fixed curriculum.
You feel called to practice leadership that is relational, embodied, and grounded in humility and care.
You’re longing for a community where rupture and repair are part of the learning, not signs of failure.
You want support in translating your contemplative life into courageous, grounded action in the world.
You sense that leadership is less about expertise and more about presence, relationship, and the willingness to show up with clarity and hope.
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.
Troy Bronsink
is a spiritual director, retreat leader, and entrepreneurship coach. Troy creates spiritual depth in both faith-based and secular settings, helping individuals and communities foster belonging and skillful group agreements.
Amy Tuttle
is an artist, guide, and community builder. She loves supporting individuals and communities with creative expression, story-based connection, and trauma-support. Amy believes the arts are a deep resource for personal growth, community-building, and cultural transformation.