THIS COMMUNITY IS ABOUT CREATIVE CARE
Personal and collective. Building creative care practices. Practices and routines that feel supportive and nourishing …and doing it together, in community. It’s about making time to do the things that we feel good doing. The things that ease our bodies, our busy brains, and our frazzled nervous systems.
A SPACE TO GATHER
Gathering with folks around the world, to repeat these practices …to pause, bend, fold (& unfold), meander, linger, wander, bumble, flail, be curious, be creative… together. We are getting to know each other here. We’re sharing stories, experiences, ideas, and inspirations. We’re sharing space, and time …and ourselves.
WHO THIS SPACE IS FOR
This community space is for folks identifying as women and/or queer, non-binary, gender-fluid, genderqueer.
We don’t make this decision lightly, or without a lot of thought. AND… in this moment, in this world, with all that is whirling around and IN us …we need pockets of reprieve. This is a wee pocket of reprieve, from SOME of the (often invisible) patriarchal care-taking.
NEURODIVERSITY-AFFIRMING SPACE
This is a neurodiversity-affirming space, where we can all show up as we are… with all of our differences/divergences. No judgements, no expectations, no policing. This is a space for us to get curious about building (and maintaining) creative care practices, and community… with/in kindness, generosity, and creativity.
MEMBERSHIP INCLUDES
- Free one-month trial
- Free community hosted workshops
- Bilateral Drawing Club (30 min sessions, 4x week)
- CoWorking (coFocus, coCare, coPutter, Body-Doubling) sessions
- Creative Practice (art-making) sessions
- Resource library & sharing (art materials, books, podcasts, articles, favourite what-have-you’s)
- Art prompts
- Community sharing & chats (rooms with different themes/topics): Spaces to ask questions, share resources, post photos.
- Opportunities to connect with other folks – for art making, conversation/company, accountability, inspiration.
We usually have several options and offerings each day. - Down the road: special events, collaborations, visiting artists
- All members can host workshops/sessions/gatherings within the community
- Discounts on offerings from other ohHEY community members (sliding scale, promo codes).
SUBSCRIPTION
ohHEY is a subscription membership, on the Mighty Networks platform. The community can be accessed through any browser window, and also through the Mighty Networks mobile app.
If the membership options below are outside of your budget, please contact us to chat about a reduced cost plan. It’s important to us that this platform be accessible to anyone wanting to be a part of it!
ohHEY Community Member
$15/month
ohHEY SUSTAINER
$25/month
ohHEY SUSTAINER PLUS
$50/month
PLEASE NOTE
The ohHEY community is not group therapy.
We want to be very clear for anyone who might feel uncertain about this… while both art AND community are inherently therapeutic (and healing), this community is NOT group therapy.
Originally created by Shauna Kaendo, the ohHEY community has recently (November 2025) shifted into being collectively run and moderated by a small gaggle of members!
WHAT IT FEELS LIKE HERE…
It feels like delight. And like community care… like creative care. Like a different kind of conversation about HOW we care, one that fits.
It feels like showing up (in creative & art practices), for ourselves & others, often and fully.
It feels like collective witnessing… listening, hearing, sharing space.
It feels like we’re building something important together. Something that changes the conversation. That reframes what well-being can look & feel like. What care practice(s) can look & feel like.
It feels like challenging binaried thinking & tired old narratives… and getting curious about how we can do CARE differently. And how we can feel different, in our day-to-days. Making more time/space for the practices that FEEL GOOD.
SOME REASONS YOU MIGHT LIKE TO JOIN OUR ohHEY COMMUNITY…
- You’re looking for community. Somewhere that you can show up, as you are, any-which-way.
- You want to make more time for art-making/creativity in your day-to-day life, and you’re just not making it happen on your own.
- You’re neuordivergent and/or enjoy spending time with neurodivergent folks (aka: interesting, smart, creative, curious, empathic, kind, and sometimes odd/awkward folks).
- You’re curious about coWorking/coFocus sessions, and want to try it out and/or do more of it (as a supportive practice around time management, motivation, task start/completing).
- You’re looking for spaces to be creative in that aren’t necessarily workshops… more like shared studio time.
- You want (and benefit from) reminders to make time for the things that you want to make time for, and a collective/collaborative space to do them in. Maybe it’s art-making …maybe it’s feeding yourself, getting outside, moving your body, listening to podcasts, reading books, doing your dishes, writing, being read to.
- You’re interested in flexible, low barrier, inclusive community space… that you can come and go as you like, no pressure, no expectations, no judgement, no “shoulds”.
- You want to do some things differently, so you can FEEL differently… in your body, in the world.
SOME OF THE THINGS WE’RE GETTING UP TO
Our regular online gatherings (there are usually a few different things happening each day):
- WATERCOLOUR MUCKING: In these sessions we muck with watercolour paints …blobs, whooshes, and what-have-you’s …giving our bodies a beautiful watery pause.
- PODCAST & PUTTERING: In these sessions we listen to a podcast together, and putter around our homes/studios doing whatever we want/need to do.
- FODDER BOX ART-MAKING: Art-making sessions inspired by the things we find in our “fodder boxes” …the places that we keep & collect our bits of unfinished, altered, dismantled art explorations. The muckings, cuttings, remnants, curious bits and bobs that come from our creative meanderings. (and for anyone unclear on what is meant by this, we can talk about it in ANY of these sessions).
- A MARK, AND AGAIN: In these sessions, we choose some sort of art material to make some sort of mark/shape …and repeat it. The same thing, over and over. With however many (or few) variations as you like. Playing with repetition, pattern, rhythm.
- READINGS & ARTINGS: For these sessions I share some sort of reading (might be an excerpt, might be a poem…). And then we’ll make art, or whatever it is that we’d each like to do on each day.
- STITCH & CHAT: Bring any of your stitching projects …slow-stitch, knit, crochet…or anything really.
- SHAKE & WIGGLE: In these short sessions I lead us through a SIMPLE movement practice (an assortment of things meant to help with grounding, nervous system tending, releasing frustration, calming/soothing….body awareness/reset).
- coWORK coFOCUS, coPUTTER, coREAD: Gentle community accountability, to get the things done that you want to get done. (also – coKnitting, coRest, Kitchen Time, Tidy-Up Circles, coWriting, and coHooping ….hoola-hooping!).
- BILATERAL DRAWING CLUB (BDC): There are 4 sessions/week to choose from, 30 min community drawing. Building a practice of drawing as a somatic/body-based process & resource.
All sessions generally start with a check-in (always optional), then we do our thing (with or without music), and then end with another check-in.
These sessions are not workshops, but dedicated space to show up in community (accountability!), make art (start/finish projects, or just muck about), make time (to do the things we want to make time to do). Space that we block INTO our calendars.
“I love the ohHEY community! There is ZERO pressure to produce, to engage, to communicate – although all of that is gently encouraged – there is always an opening to slide in with words or a photo of something you’re doing. I wish for you the capacity to join this community and gently allow yourself to find YOUR rhythm, your way of engaging, and for you to discover creative ways to say what’s in your heart.”
– KF
“ohHEY, a safe, inspiring place to land. Come as you are, do what you can, do what you like, with what you have. Engage with others, collaborate, or don’t. Observe. Know you are welcome, just as you are, camera off or on. I’m chronically ill and can find myself a little isolated. This community is just that, a comfortable community. I can show up on a super bad day, or a good day, or any day in-between and be embraced, just how I am. I hope you can join, you’ll be glad you did.”
– KK