About us
You’re here because –
* You’re not only trying to make money – you feel that you’re here to change people’s lives, be in community, and even help better the world.
* When you go to a standard networking event, it seems superficial and that most people don’t share your values.
* You want to make deep and lasting connections.
* You want to be part of a movement that does business in a way that consciously honors your personal or spiritual growth, and allows it to be an acceptable part of your expression when networking and connecting.
Conscious business means bringing in a higher consciousness - both of ourselves and of the world around us – into community. If this feels like you, like-minded souls you are just waiting to meet you – a community of conscious, aware, and ambitious entrepreneurs and professionals. Together we will not just “do business,” but create a movement to change the world.
In the Conscious Business Bay Area Meetup events, you will:
- Learn tangible methods to not just do business, but to do Conscious Business
- Meet and attract new clients or customers who really get what you’re about
- Find great referral or business partners for your new endeavors
- Get inspired by amazing speakers who will help you develop both yourself and your business!
Are you ready to be a founding member of an intentional community that blends business, personal transformation, and social change, so that we can together impact the Bay Area and beyond? Join us!
Upcoming events
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Speak from Your Wise Self in Tumultuous Times (Free Online Workshop)
·OnlineOnline***Please RSVP here *AND* register at https://createconnection.com/speakwisely to join in ***
This is a tumultuous time. Even the most grounded among us can find ourselves pulled into fear, urgency, and reactivity.
If you’re politically progressive, spiritually oriented, or highly sensitive, you may already have tools... and still feel the gap between "I know how to center" and "I can actually speak – with alignment and impact – from my center when it matters."
This free, experiential workshop is an introduction to how to SoulSpeak: a practice of speaking from your inner wisdom, even in challenging situations.
In this workshop, you’ll experience and explore how to "SoulSpeak" – let words arise from a deeper place, so you can speak with alignment, attunement and impact.
Learn a process to communicate from your "wise self," rather than your old habits, so you can be a greater beneficial presence in these times.
In addition, you'll also experience the "prerequisites" to be able to SoulSpeak - to center, ground and self-regulate (even when activated), and also to connect more with others and co-regulate.
You’ll leave with a profound experience of...
...what it means to SoulSpeak...
...a sense of community with like-minded souls...
...and a clear understanding of both why this capacity often slips under pressure., and what it takes to make it reliable.This workshop also previews the upcoming 6-week SoulSpeak cohort, a supportive container to help you stabilize and strengthen this way of communicating through practice, community, and guidance over time.
About the Facilitator: Jonathan Bender, MS, MFA - the organizer of this group, and the founder of WholeSpeak - has been coaching public speaking, connection and presence for the past 30 years. He integrates transformational inner spiritual and growth work with outer technique to help you show up with aliveness, authenticity, presence and impact - be that at work, or in your life every day. The creator of the WholeSpeak Method, he has trained thousands of executives, professionals, holistic practitioners and coaches on 5 continents to grow their voice and presence. Jonathan is also a theatre professional as well as a poet, and holds dual graduate degrees in both performance and communication.
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SoulSpeak: Center & Speak with Clarity, Courage, and Care (6-week program)
·OnlineOnline**Get more details and register at https://createconnection.com/soulspeak**
## SoulSpeak: Regain Your Center & Speak with Clarity, Courage, and Care - starting February 17th
SoulSpeak is a live, experiential online program designed to help you stay grounded, show up fully in hard moments, and communicate with integrity and impact – without feeding outrage or disappearing into silence.
Amidst the world's craziness and authoritarian threats...
There is a deeper place in you that is not frantic, not hardened, not shut down.
A place that can feel grief without drowning, anger without losing clarity, urgency without losing love.
Many people touch this place in meditation, prayer, nature, or quiet reflection.
And then the real world happens – headlines, conversations, conflict – and that steady inner knowing seems to vanish.SoulSpeak exists to bridge this exact gap:
the distance between who you are in stillness and who you are in the moment you need to speak.This is a spiritual training as much as it is a communication training.
Not spiritual in a vague or bypassing way... but in the grounded sense of learning to live, relate, and speak from the wisest part of your own being.
Because when you speak from reactivity, your words may be loud but they rarely create change.
When you speak from collapse, your truth stays hidden.But when you speak from your wise self—steady, connected, and clear—something different becomes possible.
Your voice carries presence.
And presence changes people.### Who is this for? Join if you:
- Feel activated by the news or the state of the world and want steadiness instead of spiraling
- Want to speak up online, at work, with family, or in community—without turning it into a fight
- Already have some tools (meditation, therapy, spirituality, somatics) but want skills that work in real conversations
- Want community – because doing this alone is exhausting
This is probably not for you if you want a debate club or group therapy.
### What you’ll learn and practice
SoulSpeak weaves together three core capacities:
Presence → Connection → Aligned ExpressionSoulSpeak weaves together two dimensions that are too often separated:
Inner awareness — reconnecting with the deeper, wiser consciousness within you.
Outer skill — learning real-world frameworks for communication that actually work in hard momentsOver 6 weeks, you’ll build practical, repeatable skills to:
- Return to center when you’re triggered or overwhelmed
- Stay connected to your values and your humanity
- Speak clearly without aggression, collapse, or performing for approval
- Communicate in a way that actually lands – especially when stakes are high - in these areas:
- Social media: Speaking online with intention (without rage-posting or going silent)
- Grounded conversations: honesty + listening + boundaries
- Public expression: short talks, messages, creative communications (poems, etc.) and real-world speaking moments
### Logistics
- Where: Live on Zoom (recordings sent out as well if you miss any)
- Tuition: $75 off through February 12th. Learn more here
- Spots are limited to keep the group intimate, connected, and well-facilitated
### The world does not only need louder voices.
It needs wiser ones. Like yours.
Voices that can hold truth without hatred.
Grief without collapse.
Power without domination.Learning to speak this way is not just personal development – it's participation in healing—within yourself, between people, and in the wider human field we share.
SoulSpeak is a place to live and speak from it: consistently, courageously, and together.
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