Join us in expanding perspectives and generating more capacity for collective care across cultures within and beyond the workplace in this gathering organized by the global Culture First Creative Wellbeing chapter and local Culture First Manila chapter on:
• Sept. 30, 2026 (Wed), 5:30PM-7:00PM PDT (LA)
• Sept. 30, 2026 (Wed), 8:30PM-10:00PM EDT (NY)
• Oct. 1, 2026 (Thurs), 8:30AM-10:00AM GMT+8 (MNL)
• Oct. 1, 2026 (Thurs), 10:30AM-12:00NN AEST (SYD)

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• What does collective care look like to you in your context? In your particular workplace, culture and country?
• In what ways do you seek to practice care or solidarity with people in contexts or cultures that are different from your own?

In the Philippines, the concept of kapwa is about recognizing our shared inner humanity -- the self as connected with our fellow beings -- and at its highest level, pakikipagkapwa is the pursuit of collective care that honors the freedom, dignity and justice for all.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Through conversation and guided journaling, this gathering aims to help you:
• Connect with fellow culture-builders seeking to infuse more connection, meaning and diverse perspectives in their respective organizations and communities
• Get inspired by different perspectives of collective care with Ugnayan Cards' Jen Horn sharing about pakikipag-ugnayan sa kapwa and Good Food Community's Charlene Tan sharing about their Pamayanihan model of community-supported care
• Reflect on your own practice of culture-building across geographical and cultural differences, within your organization and beyond

ABOUT THE INSTIGATOR-FACILITATORS

Jen Horn | @pagbubuo
Jen believes that cultivating connection and creativity for and with individuals and organizations can unblock joyful and courageous flow towards collective care, liberation and regeneration. She is a facilitator, an ICF Professional Certified Coach, the co-creator of Ugnayan Cards for Connection and Hapag Ugnayan, and the chapter lead for Culture First Manila and co-lead of the global, topic-based Culture First Creative Wellbeing chapter. Her facilitation and interdisciplinary creative practice is informed and inspired by expressive arts, social arts, participatory processes, Filipino psychology and food justice. Learn more about Jen and her evolving ecosystem at jen-horn.com.

Charlene Tan
Charlene believes that the seeds of justice are sown by solidarity. This is what brought her to start and sustain Good Food Community, a solidarity-based organization in the Philippines that has been seeking to cultivate a culture of care since 2011. The primary way they do this is by connecting small-holder farmers with urban households through an alternative distribution system called Pamayanihan, or their take on Community Shared Agriculture. Evolving over the last fifteen years as a response to the multiple crises of our age-- climate imperialism, shameful waste and structural injustice, this model is a way in which we can all be nourished. Having moved Los Angeles in 2021, she is keen to grow this work of care and co-liberation across the Pacific.

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