Free to humhum members. Sign-up to become a member here.
​humhum is partnering with Dr. Marie Thouin to bring you a Discussion and Connection Salon to celebrate the launch of Marie's book, What Is Compersion?: Understanding Positive Empathy in Consensually Non-Monogamous Relationships.

IN PERSON: SF/BAY AREA, MISSION DISTRICT. Location shared with registration.

7-9pm PT

Free to humhum members. Sign-up to become a member here.
​Join Kimberley Healey, PhD, for a thoughtful exploration of what can make us feel good in our bodies. This session will be playful, light hearted and accessible to humans wherever you are in your relationship to sensuality.

ONLINE

2-3pm PT | 5-6pm ET

This session is free to humhum members. Sign-up to become a member here.

​About the Workshop

​Join humhum and Non-Violent Communication and Mindfulness Instructor, Alan Rafael Seid in 75-minute workshop where you'll learn and practice with pragmatic relational communication skills rooted in non-violent communication.

​humhum will set the container with agreements, and a guided meditation, and Alan will introduce communication concepts, practices, and reflections for you to explore hands-on with others during the workshop.

​We'll Learn and Practice How To:

• ​Skillfully communicate to help create connection when there's separation

• ​Recognize and distinguish needs from strategies

• ​Communicate with more agency, empowerment, and confidence

• ​Listen to, interpret, and relate with others constructively

• ​Build trust and connection in relationships

• ​Speak so that others listen, and listen so that others speak

• ​Resolve conflict skillfully

Free to humhum members. Sign-up to become a member here.
Join humhum guide Efe Kabba for reflection a discussion group about Dating and Liberation. In community we’ll explore what it means to queer love, and create our own pathway!

We use the word queering to mean discovering nuance and subtlety, and courageously choosing to live into our own unique paths rather than shrink to accommodate ways of being we may have inherited, or have been systemically conditioned to accept.

​At humhum we approach dating and relating as a doorway to more liberation. We can wake up by showing up to our experiences with curiosity and intention. We can pay attention to what pains us and, what nourishes us, and learn to make choices with agency.

If you’re just exploring dating as a practice, or have been practicing this way for a while, we welcome you to come connect in community around the vulnerability and empowering qualities of approaching relationship as a path to liberation. Listening to others experiences might help illuminate areas of resonance or spark new ideas. And sharing your vulnerable heart to be witnessed in community is its own kind of magic. We will come together reflect on what it means to date with a liberative frame with the support of a reflection prompt, and then have the opportunity to both share our experiences and be witnessed as well as practice active listening with one another.

Free to humhum members. Sign-up to become a member here.

​
Join humhum guide Jenny Chen for a reflection and visualization followed by discussion group about purpose and vision.

​One of the primary things dating coaches, match makers, and even dating apps say support daters is identifying their purpose and vision for life and partnership. Though at humhum we’re not about optimizing outcomes, we’re about coming to love the journey, we know that non-linearly, clarity of vision supports both.

If you’re just forming ideas about this, or have done a good amount of reflection on this topic, we welcome you to come connect in community about the vulnerability and also empowering qualities of forming and moving towards vision. Listening to others experiences might help illuminate areas of resonance or spark new ideas. And sharing your vulnerable heart to be witnessed in community is its own kind of magic. We will come together reflect on purpose and vision with the support of a meaningful prompt, and then have the opportunity to both share our experiences and be witnessed as well as practice active listening with one another.

7:00-8:00pm ET | 4:00-5:00pm PT

Join humhum guide Efe Kabba, a black and queer facilitator, community builder, and artist, for a Black Love discussion group. Come share about and be witnessed in our often unique dating experience as Black femme, women, and non-binary beings. This group will be a facilitated discussion in a group of 5-10 people and will center the Black femme, woman, and non-binary dating experience. We will come together to reflect on a meaningful prompt, and then have the opportunity to both share as well as practice active listening with one another. Together we will meet whatever joy, celebration, grief, difficulty, and healing emerges in the space

8:00-9:00pm ET | 5:00-6:00pm PT

Join humhum guide Ella Israel for a discussion group centering the bisexual and bi-curious experience.
Whether you identify as bisexual, feel curious about exploring new edges of your sexuality, or if listening to others experiences might help orient you to what you're feeling in this moment in time, we want to connect with you. This group will be a facilitated discussion in a group of 5-10 people. We will come together reflect on a meaningful prompt, and then have the opportunity to both share our experiences and be witnessed as well as practice active listening with one another.

8:30-10:00pm ET | 5:30-7:00pm PT

About the Workshop

​Open your heart and connect with the big love in you! When the heart is open and we are able to listen to it intimately, we feel more aligned within ourselves and can better access our intuitive vision, creativity, and vitality. The theme of this workshop will be opening the heart to nurture self-attunement and explore what it wants to express through you in the world. 

What to Expect

​humhum creates a welcoming, guided container that encourages connection to self and fosters authentic connection with others. In this 90-minute experience we will go inward, and then bring ourselves into community as much as feels aligned for you personally. You are welcome to be a quiet participant, or more engaged.

• ​Warm up with gentle, heart-opening breathwork and meditation

• ​Integrate breathwork with inward reflection through journaling prompts

• ​In intimate groups, connect and share during our community connection experience

8:00-9:00pm ET | 5:00-6:00pm PT

Ace Valentines Month 😉 do it your way.
Join humhum guide Jenny Chen for a discussion group centering the asexual/ aromantic experience.
Whether you identify as asexual, feel curious about exploring if asexuality is aligned for you, or if hearing others might help orient you to what you're feeling in this moment in time, we want to connect with you. This group will be a facilitated discussion in a group of 5-10 people. We will come together reflect on a meaningful prompt, and then have the opportunity to both share our experiences and be witnessed as well as practice active listening with one another.

humhum and Dating Coach Dr. Marie Thouin are collaborating to bring you a three part course series that weaves together community, discussion, mindfulness and authentic connection as we explore how to intentionally co-create, frame, and hold our dating experience in an empowered way.

​Each session of this three-part, virtual experience will be 90-minutes, and begin a talk by Dr. Marie Thouin on specific aspects of her Pillars of Mindful Dating. Then, participants will have the option to either join connection-centered breakout rooms to explore the topic more deeply with one another, through intentional dialogue, or to go into a breakout room as a group with Dr. Marie for live dating coaching. humhum will offer a discussion topic that builds off of Dr. Marie's share, and offers a supportive conversation structure to help you feel connected to yourself, while connecting with others.

Note: 8:30-10:00pm ET | 5:30-7:00pm PT

Those participating in the humhum beta app membership can use credit towards this event.

REQUEST TO JOIN THE BETA

humhum and Dating Coach Dr. Marie Thouin are collaborating to bring you a three part course series that weaves together community, discussion, mindfulness and authentic connection as we explore how to intentionally co-create, frame, and hold our dating experience in an empowered way.

​Each session of this three-part, virtual experience will be 90-minutes, and begin a talk by Dr. Marie Thouin on specific aspects of her Pillars of Mindful Dating. Then, participants will have the option to either join connection-centered breakout rooms to explore the topic more deeply with one another, through intentional dialogue, or to go into a breakout room as a group with Dr. Marie for live dating coaching. humhum will offer a discussion topic that builds off of Dr. Marie's share, and offers a supportive conversation structure to help you feel connected to yourself, while connecting with others.

Note: 8:30-10:00pm ET | 5:30-7:00pm PT

Those participating in the humhum beta app membership can use credit towards this event.

REQUEST TO JOIN THE BETA

humhum and Dating Coach Dr. Marie Thouin are collaborating to bring you a three part course series that weaves together community, discussion, mindfulness and authentic connection as we explore how to intentionally co-create, frame, and hold our dating experience in an empowered way.

​Each session of this three-part, virtual experience will be 90-minutes, and begin a talk by Dr. Marie Thouin on specific aspects of her Pillars of Mindful Dating. Then, participants will have the option to either join connection-centered breakout rooms to explore the topic more deeply with one another, through intentional dialogue, or to go into a breakout room as a group with Dr. Marie for live dating coaching. humhum will offer a discussion topic that builds off of Dr. Marie's share, and offers a supportive conversation structure to help you feel connected to yourself, while connecting with others.

Note: 8:30-10:00pm ET | 5:30-7:00pm PT

Those participating in the humhum beta app membership can use credit towards this event.

REQUEST TO JOIN THE BETA

Join humhum and Non-Monogamy Relationship Coach, Michaela Rose Soleil for Coaching Office Hours. Connect with other folks in the Consensual Non-monogamy Community through a humhum connection experience. Share experiences, ask questions. Poly Curious? Come explore if CNM is aligned for you. Also, bonus giveaway! Signup to enter for a chance to win a one-month membership + coaching.

some topics we might cover

• ​Jealousy: How do I deal with jealousy/If I feel jealousy can I still be polyamorous?

• ​Relationships: How do I balance time and attention between multiple partners?

• ​Dating: How do I find other non-monogamous/polyamorous people?How do I date as a polyamorous person?

• ​Safety and Wellness: How do I create safety when navigating multiple relationships?

• ​Facing Difficulty: Polyamory has become a struggle, should I just go back to monogamy?

• ​Poly + Kids: How will this impact my kids? How do I talk to my kids about this?

• ​Coming out: How do I come out as non-monogamous to my family and friends? What are my options if I'm not ready to come out?

• ​Questioning: How do I know if I’m polyamorous?

• ​Communication: I think I’m polyamorous, how do I communicate that to my partner/potential partners?

humhum and Dating Coach Dr. Marie Thouin @love_insight_dating are collaborating to bring you an experience that weaves together community, discussion, mindfulness and authentic connection as we explore how to bring mindfulness into the dating experience.

This 45-minute experience will begin a talk by Dr. Marie Thouin on her Pillars of Mindful Dating. Then, will open up for a Q+A and live coaching with Dr. Marie. This session is a prelude to our 3-session workshop in January.

Start off 2024 with a fresh outlook on dating, and relationships.

​New Year, New Perspective will be a 90 minute workshop, with content shared by Dené Logan and humhum founder, Alexandra Ballensweig. humhum will guide connection breakouts, Dene will offer a Q+A, and we'll all write empowering narratives to start of the New Year with clarity, intentionality, and momentum.

​What We'll Cover:

• ​Breaking up with situationships 

• ​Reclaiming the narrative around singlehood 

• ​Getting clear on what you want and why you want it 

• ​How to feel empowered instead of depleted in the dating process 

• ​Attracting and nourishing connection instead of chasing it

• ​Creating a new relationship with the idea of "potential"

humhum and Trauma Informed Therapist, Sydney Rose are collaborating to bring you an experience that weaves together community, discussion, mindfulness and authentic connection as we explore how to align with our values, to create dating narratives that serve our growth, healing, and relationship aspirations.

What we'll cover

• An empowered reframe of rejection in dating

• How to identify, and live from your values

• The importance of self-care, self-worth, and self-reflection in building healthy and fulfilling relationships

• Navigating common points of suffering in dating with resilience

This 90-minute virtual experience will begin with a 45 minute talk by Sydney, and will then open up into breakout rooms for the group to explore the topic more deeply with one another. We'll put into practice what was covered and connect through guided, intentional dialogue.

2:00pm ET | 11:00am PT

Those participating in the humhum beta app membership can attend this event freely.

REQUEST TO JOIN THE HUMHUM BETA HERE.

​Join Dené and Alexandra as they navigate the intricacies of human relationships, self-discovery, and personal growth. We'll delve into the complexities of human relationships, fear, attachment, and the enigmatic "shoulds" that often govern our choices.

Join us for breathwork guided by humhum facilitator and breathwork guide Christie Mar. This session will include gentle journaling and reflection, and optional community integration. Come as you are. Share quietude and solitude, among community. ​

Event Overview:

This type of breathwork is an active, 2-stage pranayama technique done while lying down to a playlist of music that guides the peaks and valleys of the experience. We begin each session by setting the space and dropping into safety and connection before moving into active breathing. Once the breathwork portion is complete, we’ll do some landing and integration.

This is for you if you’re ready to quiet the mind, drop into the body, find emotional release, access deep connection to your intuition, and touch the parts of you that cannot be touched with language. In short, this is an intuitive, guided emotional release journey.

Christie Mar

Christie Mar is a somatic coach, guide, and teacher who believes that people are fully sovereign, complete beings. She is devoted to the path of aliveness and is committed to pointing people back to themselves. Usually, she can be found searching for moss on her daily walk or taking a dance break.

5:30pm ET | 2:30pm PT

Those participating in the humhum beta app membership can attend this event freely.

REQUEST TO JOIN THE HUMHUM BETA HERE.

Un-shalloween Dating Connection Salon

humhum is teaming up with neuroscience phD candidate, facilitator and community member, Nkechi Njacka, to host an un-shalloween connection salon at Manny’s. 

​What to expect:

• Science-based discussion on fear. Nkechi will guide us to ghost-bust fear by understanding it; she’ll illuminate how it manifests within our brain and body, offer pathways to confront it through self-compassion and mindfulness, and invite gentle integration helping us avoid fear-driven decisions.

• Mindfulness Practice. Sink into your senses and alleviate social tensions with mind-body exercises directed by mindfulness instructor and facilitator, Nkechi Njaka. ​

• Guided connection. Participate in small, guided break-out connection sessions with other available humans designed to foster rejuvenating and authentic interactions, allowing connection with oneself and others.

• Romantic possibility. At humhum, we’re all about process, unattached to outcome. We opt for a more relational approach, encouraging a genuine connection sans the pursuit of predetermined outcomes.

Let’s gather, connect, and ghost-bust our fears about dating!

Doors at 5pm PT

Note: 5:30-7:00pm PT

Those participating in the humhum beta app membership can apply a credit for a discounted ticket

REQUEST TO JOIN THE HUMHUM BETA HERE.

Join us on Thursday 10/19 from 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM at The Yard: Lower East Side Coworking Office Space in NYC.

Wrap up your day with some co-working at The Yard from 4-5pm; jam on what lights you up with others, then take a pause for a 30-minute mindfulness session on the BEtime mobile meditation studio (and bus) parked outside, and finally, come back to the Yard Rooftop to meet like-hearted-humans in a guided connection experience led by humhum, from 6:30-8:00pm.

• Optional co working 3-5pm

• BEtime Mobile Meditation Studio Sessions Available 5-630pm + open connection time, alternating with mini discussion group sessions hosted by therapists of MyWellbeing

• humhum guided connection experience 630-800 on the rooftop

Note: 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Those participating in the humhum beta app membership can use credit towards ticket purchase

REQUEST TO JOIN THE HUMHUM BETA HERE.

In our modern culture, we romanticize and covet romantic relationships, but in this new relational paradigm, we see a relational experience emerging that holds sacred the role of community, platonic intimate bonds, and a broader web of chosen family to meet our needs and longings for intimacy, belonging, co-creation, and human connection.

​humhum, Dené Logan, and Think Olio invite you for an evening of exploration, in community! Together, we'll discuss, and learn about the role community and friendships can play in our personal and societal evolution. We will explore the relational paradigm shifts we are experiencing, noticing, and longing for; from friendships, to collaborative partnerships, to co-creative communities, and how we can be nourished together. We will learn how to create secure attachment with ourselves and with our intimate bonds of all kinds.

Note: 7:00-9:30pm ET

Those participating in the humhum beta app membership can apply a credit to attend

REQUEST TO JOIN THE HUMHUM BETA HERE.

Join humhum's founder Alexandra in a webinar and discussion group as we explore dating from process-orientation rather than with an outcome-orientation.

​This 90-minute session will include:

• ​Guidance on practices for a more nourishing dating experience

• ​Reflection questions and journaling prompts

• ​Group discussion

• ​Guided breakout rooms for to meet and build connection with others in the humhum community

​​humhum is a community and dating app that centers personal growth, well-being, and human connection. humhum members can attend this event freely.

Join Inheritance Project Live for an open and honest conversation with Alexandra Ballensweig, the founder of humhum.

This particular event is West Coast-Based. Open to all beings.

Suggested age range ~ 28-45 (+/- 3 years)

Facilitated virtual small-group and 1-1 speed-dating but slower, with guided breath and mindfulness practices and prompts to foster authentic connection.

7:00pm PT

This particular event is an East Coast-Based mostly with folks from NY and Philly. This is a group dating experience for women who want to meet men / men who want to meet women.

Suggested age range ~ 28-45 (+/- 3 years)

We're partnering with Philly-based matchmaker Michal Naisteter to offer this experience.

Facilitated virtual small-group and 1-1 speed-dating but slower, with guided breath and mindfulness practices and prompts to foster authentic connection.

8:00pm ET

This particular event is an East Coast-Based mostly with folks from NY and Philly. This is a group dating experience for women who want to meet men / men who want to meet women.

Suggested age range ~ 28-45 (+/- 3 years)

We're partnering with Philly-based matchmaker Michal Naisteter to offer this experience.

Facilitated virtual small-group and 1-1 speed-dating but slower, with guided breath and mindfulness practices and prompts to foster authentic connection.

8:00pm ET

Mental Wellness brands humhum, MyWellbeing, and Othership are teaming up to host a relational wellness panel and gathering to bring our communities together In Person at The Yard in the Lower East Side, Manhattan NY.

Transitions are an intimate, and yet common experience for all of us. Life is always changing, we are always changing. Let's come together and talk about it and get to know one another amid the movement in our lives and hearts.

This is for you if you're craving a space to chat about what it's like to be a human and date in New York. If you're feeling burned out dating, or not feeling resonant with apps, swiping, or dating in general. We've got you!

Join Us to Learn How To:

• Use breath to regulate your mind, body, and emotions for yourself, and while dating

• Recover from dating burnout

• Date in a way that feels nourishing and meaningful, without burning out

• Be yourself, and stay connected to your experience while in connection with others

• Experience more authentic connection

• Relate to the dating process in a healthy, generative way

• Find more ease in social settings

The Offering:

Kick-off with a panel discussing mental wellness and dating featuring humhum founder, Alexandra Ballensweig, MyWellbeing Founder, Alyssa Petersel, and Lola Martinez of Othership, moderated by Mental Health Counselor, and Chief of Staff at Bright Ventures, Ciera Delice.

Relax into your experience, and deepen your awareness through a guided breathwork session led by Lola Martinez of Othership

Join a mini group therapy session to explore a relational wellbeing topic about transitions that piques your interest led by MyWellbeing Therapists

Connect with other participants through facilitated and intentional dialogue practices designed and offered by humhum.

6:00pm ET

Mental Wellness brands humhum, MyWellbeing, and Othership are teaming up to host another relational wellness gathering to bring our communities together at Boisson, Williamsburg in New York!

Feeling burned out dating? Not feeling resonant with swiping, or dating in general? We've got you!

Join Us to Experience:

• Breathwork to regulate the mind, body, and emotions

• A mindful non-alcoholic sips tasting experience with select offerings from Boisson

• Guided group discussion

• Mindful connection guided by humhum

The Offering:

Relax into your experience, and deepen your awareness through a guided breathwork session led by Lola Martinez of Othership

Join a group discussion session to explore relational wellbeing with MyWellBeing Therapists, humhum, and the community

Connect with other participants through a mindful guided taste-test experience facilitated by humhum and sponsored by Boisson

7:00pm ET

humhum, in collaboration with Victoria Angel Heart brings you:

The Art and Practice of Self Pleasure as a Foundation to Mindful Intimacy

+ Takeaway Recording: Guided Mindful Self-Pleasure Practice

Pleasure without mindfulness can feel a lot like eating a bag of candy while watching tv. It was nice overall, but you weren’t very present so it wasn’t memorable or even that enjoyable.

When we learn the art of self pleasure and begin to practice it, we can experience extended states of orgasmic bliss that take us far beyond our ordinary realms of consciousness and bring us into deep connection with ourselves and all of life. In this workshop, we will cover hindrances to mindfulness during self pleasure as well as how to use breath, sound, movement and touch to uplevel our intimate lives.

What to expect

• 45 minute webinar led by Intimacy Coach Victoria Angel Heart

• 30 minutes in breakout rooms for mindful discussion and exploration in community

• Full group Debrief and Q+A

• A takeaway recording, for you to deepen in practice after the webinar and explore a guided mindful self-pleasure experience

8:30pm ET | 5:30pm PT