experience design
– creating community-building events that feel like fashion experiences, while helping people practice mindfulness in daily life.
Mindfulness Workhop at
Melody Ehsani Soho
It felt like fashion but the experience was one of mindfulness.
The Cool And Thoughtful Mindfulness Workshop is designed to help us be optimally present in our daily interactions. As the architect of this exerperience, Kerrin has led the workshop online, for fashion brands, in collaboration with social impact consulting firms, and at her concept space in NYC.
The mindfulness workshop offers four different strategies for practicing mindfulness in our daily interactions, bringing to life the Cool And Thoughtful thesis that personal mindfulness and inner peace take full flight when they are in service of being present and kind with others. Each workshop is designed to enable safe sharing and authentic community-building no matter how well participants do (or do not yet) know each other: after “shaping the container,” Kerrin walks through what we mean by “an emotional reaction” before facilitaing paired and group sharing.
In the Melody workshops, women of all walks of life, from a mother-daughter duos, to a long-time brand champion who drove three hours for the event, gathered to experience the kind of authentic connection that happens when we come together to share ourselves authentically and connect in our shared humanity. As with every workshop, attendees leave as new friends, and with a follow up guidelist of strategies for practicing the kind of mindfulness that we workshoped together as a group.
Learn more here.
[Workshop design, facilitation, project management, attendee strategy, art direction]
Hot Girl Walk + Talk with Hot Girl Walk Los Angeles
Connecting, reflecting, and creating community with HGWLA.
“Over the course of 10K steps, we’ll dive into a facilitated conversation about how to be Cool And Thoughtful in your daily life, with others who care about being positive and proactive. You will leave with a tangible way to be mindful throughout your day, a new group of friends who have your back, and a breath of fresh air as you set out into your day.”
In a collaboration with Hot Girl Walk Los Angeles, our intention for this experience was to create a safe space for connecting and reflecting, for people to feel at ease and at home, and to create a meaningful sense of community.
Drawing from the library of Cool And Thoughtful Daily Practices, Kerrin facilitated a light-touch for women to reflect on what it means to “be a yes,” and how this open-minded way of being can create momentum for you, and how to recognize where “no” is a healthy limit versus a stance that might be holding you back in some way.
We subsequently featured this experience in Issue Nº3 of COOL AND THOUGHTFUL Magazine. Learn morere here.
[Concept development, facilitation, logo design, art direction]