🏮 The Commons Townsquare: Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month edition
In celebration of Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, we're excited to bring together the AAPI community to explore what it means to come alive and flourish through the lens of our cultural identity.
Together, we'll reflect on how our family histories, cultural inheritances, and personal experiences shape the scripts that we operate from. This experience is an invitation to honor where we come from and step into who we're becoming.
Join us for an afternoon of interactive workshops, nourishing circle discussions, and playful games.
We can't wait to connect with you, share communal wisdom, and celebrate the richness of our cultural identities ⚡️
Schedule of Events
12:30 - 1:00pm | Arrival & Check-in
🍵 Welcome tea with Jerry Liang
1:00 - 2:00pm | Welcome & Opening Circle
2:00 - 3:30pm | 🪷 Aliveness Workshop
Led by Ravi Mishra (Author of Vow of Aliveness) & Vivien Tai (Well-being Coach & Consultant, Master in Applied Positive Psychology @ Penn, 2025)
3:45 - 5pm | ❤️🔥 Ancestral Homecoming
Led by Tian Tian (Holistic Wellness & Transformation Coach, Sacred Space Holder)
5 - 6pm | Circles & Games
🧑🧑🧒🧒 Reimagining Your Relationship with Your Parents Workshop led by Kan Yan (Host of Parents Reimagined podcast)
🧧 Mandarin Circle with Betsy Chou
🀄️ Mahjong
6 - 6:30 | Closing Circle & Raffle Drawing
Session Overviews
🪷 Aliveness Workshop with Ravi Mishra & Vivien Tai
❤️🔥 Ancestral Homecoming with Tian Tian
A nourishing, interactive workshop blending somatic practices: Qi Gong and yin yoga, with heart-centered small group discussions and optional big group sharing. Together, we’ll explore how reconnecting with our ancestral roots can nourish healing, cultivate a deeper sense of belonging, and help us reclaim our wholeness.
🧑🧑🧒🧒 Reimagining Your Relationship with Your Parents Workshop with Kan Yan
Reimagining Your Relationship with Your Parents is a one-hour experiential workshop to help you shift long-standing patterns and bring more clarity, compassion, and agency to your parent relationship. Through guided reflections and exercises, you’ll uncover insights and leave with practical tools to relate from the adult you are today—not the child you once were.
Thank you to our sponsors & donors 🙏
All entry tickets will be entered into our raffle.
For five attendees:
🎴 Parents Are Human's Friends Are Human card deck
A deck of 140 fun and heartfelt questions to deepen authentic friendship (value of $39)
One complimentary 1:1 Holistic Wellness & Transformation Coaching Session with Tian Tian (value of $222/session)
For the first 20 general admission tickets:
📚 A copy of Vow of Aliveness
Authored by Ravi Baikei Mishra on how we stay alive in a world designed to keep us distracted, numb, and consuming (value of $12)
For Commons members and the first 20 general admission tickets:
🗣️ One free month of Thyself
A voice AI app for emotional work that guides you through emotional blocks and into flow (value of $29/month)