Parallel Pursuits Circle
🌿 About Event
This gathering is for people who experience the particular isolation of holding multiple serious pursuits in parallel—work and writing, analysis and art, professional roles and personal projects across different domains, all at once. When you're the sole integrator of your own combination, the world around you often doesn't hold all of it. This circle creates space for that integration to be witnessed and met with understanding. We'll spend 90 minutes in conversation with people who actually get it: the euphoria and the exhaustion, the contradictions you haven't resolved, why you're doing this work anyway, and what it means to find community around this particular condition. This is a pilot gathering. We're testing whether this circle meets a real need and what form it wants to take. Based on what emerges, we may or may not continue. Your participation and feedback will shape what happens next.
🕰 Flow / Schedule
Please arrive by 6:30pm 6:30 – 6:45 Settling in + Opening meditation (breath work to ground the container) 6:45 – 7:45 Small group conversations on isolation, integration, and why you're doing this work 7:45 – 8:00 Group reflection + Closing
👥 Facilitator
Jia Hui Seow is a writer, survey data analyst, and researcher exploring measurement of psychedelic experience across cultures. She's interested in the architecture of working across domains and what becomes possible when that integration is witnessed.
💫 Who This Is For
This space is for people doing serious work across multiple domains in parallel—whether professional, creative, intellectual, or personal. You're welcome here if you:
Experience the isolation of holding multiple real pursuits at once
Are willing to share openly about your work and its challenges
Can hold contradictions without needing to resolve them
Are interested in listening to understand rather than debate No expertise required. Only honesty and curiosity.
💛 Suggested Donation
Suggested donation: $5–10 at the door to support space stewardship. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
🏛 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
Please enter via the stairway at 540 Laguna St, San Francisco (corner of Hayes & Laguna).