The Hive Cincinnati
The Hive exists to develop creative, compassionate, and mindfully-engaged citizens both online and in the Cincinnati region through small group classes, events and workshops.
The Hive cultivates mindfulness which manifests as creativity and intentional social engagement. We do this through retreats, events, classes, and one-on-one direction, which we offer to our neighbors in Northside, Cincinnati, the wider tri-state region, and now online. We also bring Pop Up Hive to your workplace and houses of faith.
Our hunch is that small groups make it easier to learn mindful and contemplative practices; whether that is art and poetry, meditation and prayer, yoga, or even community action. Not only easier, but more meaningful too!
Click here to hear our founder share more about our work.
Choosing Your Path
The 6 Domains
There are a lot of classes and circles held through the Hive. In fact, making the choice where to begin or go next can feel like a big choice. These domains, or groupings will help you see what you are attracted to, what you are avoiding, and what you want to work toward. It will help you as you plan out your year, and as you look back on your year to plan for the next.
There are 6 two-month sessions a year, so you can: choose a different domain every session, do a deep dive into one domain, or choose your own adventure.
Contemplative Practice
Contemplative practice will help you discover or strengthen practices in your life that help you develop inner quiet, be more present and connected to self, others, the universe, and the divine.
Body
Body classes help us be an integrated whole. We are a country and culture that focuses regularly on what you think, believe, or consume. This work reminds us to keep body-mind-spirit integrated, and to practice being fully present and listening to our body.
Creative Expression
Creative expression will help you discover new ways that your voice can enter the world through creative practices that help you listen to your intuitive self, uncover what inspires you, and bridge your inner work with the outside community.
Mapping Tools
Mapping tools courses will give you new tools or lenses through which to process your journey, life, and relationships. They might be new lenses like the Enneagram that help you understand your journey in new ways, or practical work like the Economics of Compassion to create new financial habits of intention.
Healing Work
Healing work includes trauma informed work, recovery, and health. All of the work, classes, and circles at the Hive can surface areas where we need to do deeper dives or work to heal. Classes in this area can help you do that work, or to be more informed about how to show up with others in a deeper understanding of their trauma and suffering.
Collective Action
Collective action helps to take our internal transformation and to extend that out into the world in the form of justice, movements, resistance, and community action. We believe that we can impact our world or our worlds, and that contemplation is a way to keep our external action and our internal work humming.
How to get started?
Join a class or drop in on an event, check out our blog and podcast, or dive right in and become a Hive Member or volunteer.
Lead Team
Chris La Rue, Executive Director
chris@cincyhive.org
Geralyn Sparough, Director of Curriculum Curation and Facilitator Development
geralyn@cincyhive.org
Lindsay Short, Director of Hospitality and Culture
lindsay@cincyhive.org
Wisdom Circle
Daniel Hughes, LaShanda Sugg, Ed Ewbank, Tina Hubert, and Rowe Schnure
Advisory Board
Jane Gerdsen, Ed Goode, Will Samson, Kelly Cowan, Karen Ecker, and Niki Pappas