The Hive Fellowship
A Formative Leadership Journey for a Liberated and Loving World
Launching April 2025, The Hive Fellowship is a two-year formation program journeying through our curriculum of skills and practices for inner and outer change.
The Hive is a container—a living room, if you will—where people gather together to slow down, grapple with the uncertainties of our time, and master contemplative, creative, and activist skills and practices that prepare them to pollinate a more liberated and loving world.
We believe that groups create culture, and culture creates change.
In a deeply polarized era, we hold space for interdependence, reimagining a life lived intentionally with others that brings good to each member of the community and to the world itself.
With the dream of building a better future together, The Hive invites you to embark on a foundational two-year journey of inner and outer work—a transformative Fellowship that allows fellows to build their own set of skills and practices in community and equips fellows to become creative, compassionate, and socially engaged leaders who foster the change they want to see in the world through connection, innovation, and a collective commitment to love and truth; this is the beloved community that Dr. King and other moral leaders envisioned.
Details of Participation
Fellows will journey together through our 2 year curriculum, attending quarterly one-day retreats that introduce new contemplative-based skills and practices through engaging group-faciliation by our Core Faculty.
Each quarter of the two-year journey will introduce a new theme, with the first year focused on inner work, including embodiment and healing, and the second year focused on outer work, including systemic change and group action.
Between quarterly retreats, Fellows will gather monthly with their Cohort for deepening relationships and peer-to-peer support; each cohort will also benefit from the guidance and participation of a particular Core Faculty member.
Fellows will have access to all of The Hive’s facilitated multi-week classes and workshops to choose from, and will be encouraged to participate in classes and workshops together, with the friends they make along the way.
At the end of the two years, Fellows will be invited to co-create an ongoing Alumni network to continue deepening social capital in the form of supportive friendships, a community of practice, and emergent avenues for shared service and impact.
By the end of the two years, Fellows will confidently integrate the practices and skills they have learned, becoming architects and catalysts of loving change in the world.
Welcome to The Hive Fellowship.
Applying to The Hive Fellowship
Think this could be for you? Apply today! The priority deadline for applications is February 28th.
Our application for The Hive Fellowship is intentionally designed to be reflective and help us get to know your background and passions.
After receiving and reading your application, we’ll set up a chat to explore how the Fellowship aligns with your own journey, as well as answer any questions you have.
This program is tuition-based, which covers participation in quarterly retreats, monthly cohort gatherings, expert-led classes, and access to The Hive’s full curriculum of workshops and formation experiences. We are committed to ensuring that finances are not a barrier to participation, which is why we offer scholarship opportunities and accessible payment plans for those who need them. If you’d like to explore financial assistance options, you’ll be invited to let us know in your application.
Questions? Email Hive Lead Team Member, Lindsay Short: lindsay@cincyhive.org
Overview of our 2 Year Curriculum
Year One: Inner Change
Spring: Establishing Rhythms of Rest and Contemplation
Summer: Embodiment and Somatics
Autumn: Healing Work and Self Leadership
Winter: Cultivating Inner Authority
Year Two: Outer Change
Spring: Engaged Contemplation
Summer: Building Capacity for Systemic Change
Autumn: Skills for Leading Group Action
Winter: Integrating and Celebrating Change
Our Core Faculty
The Hive is formed by facilitators asking: What are the resources that lie within our vast lineages, traditions, and modalities of healing, and how can we place them in service of the common good? Our Core Faculty are our leaders in facilitation, bringing forth their unique expertise and gifts to form a diverse team that inspires personal transformation and fuels collective change.
Our Core Faculty are guided by:
Revolutionary Love as demonstrated in the inner life, in relationships, and movements of radical social transformation.
Contemplative traditions spanning modern mindfulness teaching, earth-based traditions, contemplative Christianity, engaged Buddhism, embodiment, as well as trauma-informed work and creative expression.
Our birthright to be agents of loving change in the world. Loving-change is not just an aspiration, but a fundamental capacity within individuals and the collective to be tapped into. Hive faculty accept the responsibility for facilitating practices that instill a deep sense of agency and hope, resourcing individuals and communities to be agents of loving-change in the world.
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.
Adam Clark
is a theologian, university professor, and a seeker of justice. Adam is passionate about the integral connection between contemplation and activism and seeks to raise critical consciousness by going beneath surface meanings, unmasking conventional wisdom, and reimagining the good.
Leslie Hershberger
is a master facilitator, Enneagram expert, and transformational consultant. Leslie believes in the power of human transformation through intention, awareness, and practice. She is passionate about supporting people in cultivating self-awareness in their inner life, relationships, and spirituality.
D. Lamar Hughes
is a gifted speaker, poet, leadership coach, and community organizer. He finds joy in helping others identify their passion and purpose, and connecting them to the resources that will make them the most loving and productive people in their community.
La Shanda Sugg
is a healer, trauma-informed therapist, and consultant. La Shanda is passionate about creating safe spaces for exploration, healing, and growth. She is an expert at bringing people into their bodies and developing a nurturing relationship with their own nervous systems.
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.