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Right-Sizing Reality [public]
🌿 About Event
Right-Sizing Reality is a three-week talking circle for exploring what it means to stay human-sized in a world that keeps expanding.
As our tools, screens, and systems grow ever more vast, we find ourselves both empowered and estranged — able to see galaxies but struggling to see each other. Technological and scientific advances give humans seemingly limitless capabilities. But is there a limit on our part to feel right-sized in the environments we’ve created? Just as cars once stretched our cities beyond walking distance, digital technologies are reshaping the scale of our attention, imagination, and relationships.
Each week, we’ll gather in conversation to rediscover the contours of our own humanity — what feels “right-sized” to our minds, bodies, and spirits. Through shared reflection and small group dialogue, we’ll look at how architecture, technology, and lived experience shape our sense of belonging, proportion, and meaning.
🕰 Flow / Schedule
Mondays, 6:30–7:45pm, for three weeks starting 11/10
6:30 - Arrive and settle in
6:45 - 2–3 rounds of talking circle
7:15 - Break into small groups for deeper conversation
7:30 - Closing circle to share insights
👥 Facilitator
Julie Ann Nepomuceno is an architect (the actual kind) turned marketing manager in her industry, Bay Area born and raised, and stubbornly car-free. Julie Ann is a frequent face at The Commons, often accompanied by her 9-year-old, drawn to the space’s sense of sanctuary and proximity to Trader Joe’s. Her work and curiosity live at the intersection of design, community, and human-scale living as the Marketing Manager at Opticos Design, the firm behind the hottest topics in urban design, Missing Middle Housing and Form-Based Code.
💫 Who This Is For
This circle is for anyone asking: How do I stay grounded in an age of acceleration? What is enough? What is human-scale in systems of endless growth? Is it a constant related to physical limits of perception, can it change with tools, or is it both? What can we learn from our built environment as we face a changing digital environment?
Anyone curious about living with more simplicity, presence, and meaning in community.
💛 Suggested Donation / Exchange
This series is free to attend.
A $5–10 donation at the door is warmly appreciated to help cover the cost of hosting.
🏛 About The Commons
The Commons is a community-based “Fourth Place” that catalyzes each member’s path to authenticity, full self-expression, and aliveness - rooted in the belief that community is essential to that journey. Located in the heart of San Francisco, we are redefining what it means to gather, work, and connect. By day, we’re a playful co-working space; by night, a vibrant community meeting house.
🚪 Arrival Info
📍 Location: The Commons, 540 Laguna, is near the corner of Laguna St & Linden St at the basement level. To enter, go down the stairs next to EarthBody.
🧦 Shoes off inside — The Commons is a socks-only or barefoot space. Slippers and shoe coverings are available.
🚗 Parking: If street parking is full, Trader Joe’s offers 2 hours of free parking for customers (store open till 9pm)