A Playful Exploration of Desire, Embodiment, and Nourishing Connection

What becomes possible when you slow down enough to hear what you truly desire?
In a world that often pulls us into doing, striving, and going it alone, many of us are quietly yearning for something deeper: meaningful connection, genuine support, a sense of belonging, and the courage to ask for what we want.
This playful, embodied evening is an invitation to slow down, reconnect with yourself, and remember the abundance and oxytocin that becomes available when we gather in community.
Through movement, sound, guided connection practices, and authenticity, opportunities to both offer and receive nourishment, we'll explore:
• Clarifying what you truly desire beneath the noise and busyness of everyday life
• Giving yourself permission to want what you want
• Asking for what you need from an abundant, invitational place
• Transforming the energy of longing into connection, creativity, and possibility
• Building the muscle of belonging, attunement, and creating meaningful relationships
• Remembering that you are not separate—you are part of a living ecosystem of support
Together, we'll create a space that is lighthearted, playful, nourishing, and deeply human. A space where you don't need to perform, fix, or become anything different. A space to arrive exactly as you are and experience the simple magic of being witnessed, supported, and celebrated.
Like mycelium in a forest floor, we are more interconnected than we often realize. When one part of the ecosystem flourishes, we all benefit.
Come reconnect with your desires, your aliveness, and the collective nourishment that becomes possible when we remember we belong.
Facilitators:
Leah Diamond is a Transformation Facilitator and embodiment guide with over three decades devoted to personal growth — and 40+ years as a performer and speaker. Certified as Mindfulness Meditation Teacher by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, she is a guest faculty member at Esalen Institute, a HAI Global and SoulPlay Presenter, and a certified coach, Usui Reiki Master Practitioner, and trauma-informed facilitator. Her clients include executives, entrepreneurs, actors, TEDx speakers, and holistic practitioners.
Drawing on somatic practice, relational intelligence, and a corporate background in HR and communications management with a Fortune 500 company. She helps leaders and changemakers move through self-doubt and the fear of being seen, so they can ground into the present, embody their voice, and connect authentically — with dignity, depth, and belonging. Leah creates brave, openhearted spaces where the sacred meets the playful — and where real transformation happens. She helps people stop performing and start living. With presence, purpose, and a little bit of magic.
Dr. Carley Corrado, founder of Enliven Leadership, guides purpose-driven leaders, executive teams, and event producers to shift from force to flow—expanding impact and wellbeing. With a PhD in Chemistry, postdoctoral research in Physics, and experience co-creating a renewable energy startup, she brings a rare integration of scientific rigor and somatic wisdom. Carley supports leaders and organizations at pivotal moments of growth—when their vision is expanding and the way they’ve been operating is no longer sustainable—catalyzing transformation that pairs ease and flow with real structural change, creating teams that are more coherent, effective, and energized.
Through her Enliven Method, she helps leaders regulate and rewire their nervous system, unlock authentic clarity, and translate vision into grounded, forward-moving reality. She is known for creating spaces, team cultures and events that are both deeply attuned and highly catalytic—where insight becomes action and leaders reconnect to the aliveness, confidence, and momentum at the core of their work.
You'll leave with:
• Greater clarity about what you want most right now
• Practical experience asking for and receiving support
• A deeper felt sense of connection with yourself and others
• Renewed vitality, inspiration, and possibility
• New relationships rooted in authenticity and mutual care
Together we'll remember: connection isn't something we find. It's something we create.

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