🏮 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 | 🧑🧑🧒🧒 Reimagining Your Relationship with Your Parents Workshop
Led by Kan Yan (Host of Parents Reimagined podcast)
6 - 6:30 | Closing Circle & Raffle Drawing
Session Overviews
🪷 Aliveness Workshop with Ravi Mishra & Vivien Tai
How can you connect more deeply with your sense of aliveness? Join us for a 90-minute interactive workshop designed to help you explore what aliveness means to you. Through a mix of solo reflection, paired conversations, and optional group sharing, you’ll uncover your unique experience of aliveness, identify what might be getting in the way, and design small experiments to move toward a fuller, more vibrant life. The mini-workshop will be led by Ravi and Vivien, who are each exploring aliveness in writing and academia, respectively.
❤️🔥 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 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)
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 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 one attendee:
🎨 Color Analysis Consultation with Nicole Ng
One complimentary session to find your personal style through color analysis by identifying what colors, neutrals, jewelry, and glasses shapes look best on you (value of $200/session)