Hearts Weaving Hope was born out of a longing to build community. It aspires to be an evolving, collaborative, emergent space where people come together to reweave webs of kinship through whole-hearted participation in life.
kinship as a wide web
kinship with human kin
kinship with plants, animals, stones, soil, land, and waters
kinship with mystery, with spirit, and with the energy that sources us
kinship with our ancestors and with the future-ones
kinship with our own bodies and hearts
When we weave these webs of kinship together, we might build collective resilience and capacity to meet the fullness of life. These webs might create possibilities for love and healing that are more brilliant and powerful than we could ever access alone.
We don’t have to know how, but we could say yes anyway.
Yes to leaning into spaces of unknown,
yes to lifting each other into accountability,
yes to leading with love.
When we say yes to inhabiting our hearts as fully as we can, we might also say yes to the steady, daily practice of showing up for it all — the clumsy, the awkward, the ecstatic, the painful, the joyful, the healing. May all of the threads emerging here weave deep resilience and kinship in just the ways they are needed most.
Meet Emma!
Emma Koeppel is a joyfully devoted community leader, creative, and lover of loving. She longs for community spaces that invite us to dwell on the edges of aliveness together, feeling and imagining what might be possible when we lean into spaces of not knowing. She lives through listening deeply to mystery, to heart, and to kin.