Presence Unwrapped, by WishWell Village
WishWell Village presents Presence, Unwrapped, in collaboration with Millions Meditating Alliance, celebrating the launch of WishWell, with special launch support from Dr. Lori Leyden, author of PRESENCE.
Step into a new kind of virtual gathering, where kindness, stillness and human connection come first.
Here, your presence is the gift.
In the season of wrapping paper and long lists, the gift people remember most can’t be wrapped at all. It’s the friend who put their phone down. The parent who really listened. The stranger who saw you.
Presence Unwrapped is an invitation to open that gift together. For two hours, set down the rush, step out of the noise, and gather around a virtual fire with people from around the world, sharing stories, wisdom and real conversation, the way villages always have.
What you’ll leave with
A steadier heart: a felt sense of calm and presence you can come back to as the year turns.
New kindred spirits: real conversations with people who care about the same things you do.
A practice to keep: simple ways to give your presence every day, long after the gathering ends.
See the full event page: wishwellvillage.com/presence-unwrapped
Event Details: What to Expect
Event Details: What to Expect
Sunday, December 13 · 11:11 AM – 1:11 PM Eastern, with an optional final hour until 2:11 PM
🔥 Arrive at the Fireside
Everyone enters at the Fireside, where volunteers welcome you and show you how to move around. Pull up a log, say hello, and wander the Garden to meet our sponsors. Then Scott and Leena gather the room and open with a moment of silence.
🕯️ Wisdom from the Village: Dr. Lori Leyden, Presence When It Matters Most
From post-genocide Rwanda to communities healing after school shootings, Lori has spent decades witnessing what presence can do when everything else falls away. Drawing from her new book, PRESENCE, she shares how to come home to your steadiest, truest self when life gets hardest.
🎁 Good People Good Things: Braxton Kilgo, I Believe In You
Braxton shares how four words on a sticker became a bracelet made to be given away, and the ripple of kindness it has carried around the world.
🌠 Group Coherence, guided by Leena Wilde and powered by WishWell
A guided few minutes where everyone focuses on the same intention at once. Together we create a shared field of presence and place our wishes into it: one for the collective and one personal, held by everyone in the room.
🕯️ Wisdom from the Village: Lauren L’Amour, Small Moments, Sacred Practice
Presence doesn’t wait for a retreat or an hour on the cushion. Lauren shares sacred micro-practices, small moments of stillness, gratitude and intention that fit inside an ordinary day, and how to turn them into habits that last.
🌿 Connect and Explore
Gather back around the Fireside to talk about what moved you and meet new people, or stroll the Garden to visit our sponsors.
✨ The Final Hour (Optional): Stay a Little Longer, Your Way
When the gathering closes at 1:11 PM, you can head off, or choose one of two ways to spend one more hour together:
Linger at the Fireside & Garden (free): both spaces stay open for another hour. Keep a conversation going, visit a sponsor you missed, or say goodbye slowly.
The Connectorium, powered by WeField ($11): a curated one-on-one connection experience hosted by Peter Oppermann. Details below.
🤝 The Connectorium, Powered by WeField
Hosted by Peter Oppermann · The optional final hour, 1:11 – 2:11 PM Eastern · $11
Find your people. For creators, builders and changemakers shaping a kinder world.
We’re more connected than ever, yet finding the people we truly resonate with can still feel strangely hard. The Connectorium creates the conditions for a different kind of serendipity. Before the gathering, you answer a few simple questions about what you’re creating, what you need and what you have to offer.
WeField’s live matching then brings you into a series of intentional one-on-one conversations with the people you were meant to meet. You might meet a future collaborator, someone with exactly the insight you need, a new friend, or someone whose path you can help light. You don’t need a pitch, just curiosity and a willingness to give and receive.
Not a Webinar. A Gathering Place.
This time, you're not joining a video call. You're stepping into an immersive digital village powered by Gatherly. In this virtual environment, you can move around freely, meet other humans, join conversations, hear the stories, and stick around after the main event.
See it in 30 secs:
You control your experience:
🚶 Move freely between the Fireside, the Main Stage and the Garden
👋 Walk up to people and start a real conversation, just like you would in person
🧭 Choose your own path: gather around the Fireside, hear wisdom on the Main Stage, or meet conscious changemakers in the Garden
✨ Show up as you: customize your avatar and explore a space built for connection
It runs right in your browser, with nothing to download or install. A laptop or desktop works best.
🌱 WishWell: Launching December 13
WishWell is an app for giving presence. Share a wish and people around the world hold it, each giving a minute of their full attention. Or offer your own minute to the people who matter most, and leave a note so they know they were held.
It grows from the ZeroOne, a symbol of presence gifted hand to hand more than 280,000 times across six continents. Presence Unwrapped is WishWell’s launch: you’ll feel it together in our group coherence moment, and afterward WishWell is how the practice comes home with you.
Who Presence, Unwrapped is For
This gathering is for the good hearts. For people who feel the pull toward a kinder, more connected way of living, and are looking for others who feel it too.
It’s for the keepers of presence, love, kindness and generosity. Those who listen deeply, give freely, and believe small acts of care can change the world. It’s for anyone tired of scrolling past each other who’s ready to actually meet.
There’s no stage to perform on and nothing to sell. Just people from around the world gathering around a shared fire, remembering what it feels like to be human.
Featured Voices
Dr. Lori Leyden
Lori is an internationally recognized trauma-healing pioneer, author and spiritual mentor with more than 35 years of experience. She has brought comfort and hope to communities in post-genocide Rwanda, Newtown, Parkland, and Aboriginal and refugee communities in Australia. She is the founder of the nonprofit Create Global Healing and creator of the Embodying Grace HeartMap™ and the Mastering Therapeutic Presence program. Her new book, Presence: The Capacity to Access Who You Are, When It Matters Most, launches this season.
Lauren L'Amour
Lauren is a conscious leadership advisor, humanitarian and spiritual mentor who has spent more than three decades helping visionaries turn big ideas into meaningful impact. She is co-founder and executive director of the Millions Meditating Alliance, which unites people around the world for UN World Meditation Day. She is also the founder of the Quantum Success Institute and author of the forthcoming book Sacred Habits.
Braxton Kilgo
Braxton is the founder and CEO of I Believe In You, a movement built on four simple words. The movement has since created more than 150,000 chances for one person to tell another that they matter, and an app follows each bracelet's journey as it travels from person to person around the world.
Peter Oppermann
Peter is an engineer turned "transformational engineer," and the founder of the Los Angeles–based Future Self Institute. Through his Future Self Method, which blends neuroscience, quantum physics and ancient wisdom, he has helped more than 10,000 people from 25 nationalities connect with who they're becoming. An entrepreneur for over 20 years and a longtime meditation teacher, Peter now brings that same curiosity to human connection through WeField, an AI-powered collective intelligence platform that helps the right people find each other.
Your Hosts
Dr. Scott Levine
Founder of WishWell. A chiropractor for more than three decades, Scott works with energy, intuition and connection to the field. He has spent nine years building WishWell, technology that gathers human attention for good, and created ZeroOne, a wish-gifting experience shared more than 280,000 times around the world. His purpose is simple: being love, and activating it in others.
Leena Wilde
Storyteller, community weaver and lead curator of WishWell Village Leena is the author of Dear Luna Wilde and Good People, Good Things. From her podcast to intimate gatherings, she creates spaces for heartfelt conversation, where people remember who they are and come back to presence and belonging.
Presence, Unwrapped is presented by WishWell Village and Millions Meditating Alliance, celebrating the launch of WishWell, with special launch support from Dr. Lori Leyden, author of "Presence."