I’m Emma, the person behind the computer screen and the person in collaboration with this vision of Hearts Weaving Hope.
Before I share more of my story, here are the core tenets I strive to walk with:
We are all deserving of love, freedom, and compassion. No being, human or more-than-human, deserves to be treated with violence or cruelty. We have a responsibility as humans to see, understand and unravel the patterns that compel us toward violence.
We all have an inherent soul aliveness that deserves to be seen, known, nurtured and kindled within us. We can support this in each other through compassionate seeing and honoring the inherent dignity and beauty of each person we relate with.
Earth is a living, vibrant, vital being who deserves our respect and care. Equally, all the life that earth births and nourishes also deserves our respect and care.
My story
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What is Hearts Weaving Hope?
When I was dreaming this website into being back in 2023, the name “Hearts Weaving Hope” arrived completely out of the blue when I was on a walk one morning. Before that, I had been orienting to words like “roots” and “alchemy” as potential directions that I might go in for choosing a name. No part of me had been attuning to “heart” or “hope” as the primary focus. But, when the name arrived, it made complete sense to some part of me, and so it stuck.
As time has gone on, I’ve found that the name has served more than I anticipated — it’s become guide for me in my own becoming. Pointing me toward what my own heart is longing to grow into, and what its longing to serve. Orienting me to how I long to show up to each and every interaction I have.
One thing I’m learning as I continue to tend this space and its offerings, is that, like the name suggests, there’s a certain active emergence in what is happening here. Weaving is an active process. When something is being woven, it’s always changing and evolving. As I’m learning and growing, so too are the offerings and invitations held here.
It is my prayer that this space, and my being, and all beings, can continue evolving and emerging in all the ways we long to, so that we can most fully serve the thriving of all life.
Here’s what I wrote about this space when it was first birthed, which I still stand by:
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 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.