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 makes this gathering different
A new way to gather: a living village to wander together, with a fire to sit by and new people to meet.
Deep human connection: real conversations, and a whole village holding each other's wishes, wherever you are.
Technology that gets out of the way: thoughtfully chosen tools fade into the background, so the moments that matter can happen.
See the full event page: wishwellvillage.com/presence-unwrapped
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 partners. 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.
🤝 Welcoming WishWell: Lauren L’Amour, Millions Meditating Alliance
Lauren, co-founder of the Millions Meditating Alliance, shares why pausing together changes a group and each person in it, and why Millions Meditating is partnering with WishWell to bring this practice into everyday life. Then she welcomes us into our group coherence moment.
🌠 Holding Each Other’s Wishes: Group Coherence, guided by Leena Wilde and powered by WishWell
Before we gathered, our village shared its wishes. Seen together, they show us how alike we are: we are all wishing for the same things. Then we hold them as one. For a few quiet minutes, everyone in the room gives their full attention to the same intention, and together we place every wish into a shared field of presence, held by all of us.
🌿 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 partners.
✨ 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 partner 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 as we hold each other’s wishes, 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
Wisdom from the Village · Author of Presence
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
Millions Meditating Alliance
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. Through the Millions Meditating Alliance, she unites people around the world in shared stillness for UN World Meditation Day.
Braxton Kilgo
Good People, Good Things · I Believe In You
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
Connectorium host · WeField
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
Co-founder, WishWell Village
Scott is a frequency chiropractor and intuitive with more than 30 years of practice. The ZeroOne was gifted to him, and he has been its steward for nearly ten years. His purpose is simple: being love, and activating it in others.
Leena Wilde
Co-founder, WishWell Village
Leena is a storyteller, soul anthropologist and mother, and the author of Dear Luna Wilde and Good People, Good Things. She weaves community through heartfelt conversation, drawing out the wisdom already living in people.
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.