Mid-year Meditations

Many of us started 2023 with big goals and clear intentions. But as always, life brings us obstacles and distractions. Step onto the mental balcony & recalibrate for the 2nd half of 2023.

Join us on Sunday May 21 at 2pm ET for our third-annual "Mid-Year Meditations" event!

11am PT | 2pm ET | 8pm CT

I joined this experience to push myself into a mode of self exploration that i had been out of touch with for years. I feel clearer on who I am and where I am going on the other side of things.

Andrew Shirman | Co-Founder and Principal at LeadersAtlas

Franzi and Ted facilitate magic. It’s hard to create crisp experiences that are both playful and diligent. But Franzi and Ted have a way with these things and make it easy. If you meet them halfway, the experience invites you into a garden — making the ordinary, exotic.

Marko Hrelja | Founding Member FTW DAO

The Bravespace experience took me to places that I would have never naturally gone myself. The both reflective and practical prompts helped me implement meaningful change into my life.

Marian Knopp | Productivity Coach

What’s Mid-Year Meditations?

  • bravespace is a community of 1,000+ leaders who come together very few months to journal in unison on important life themes.

  • Founded during the pandemic as a way to create space for people to introspect and support one another's growth journeys, bravespace has become an important setting for leaders in tech, politics, and the social sector to embrace their humanity and connect as individuals.

  • Join our "Mid-Year Meditations" event to help you remember where you started, acknowledge how your circumstances have changed, and help you plan the rest of the year.

  • Over the course of two hours, you and hundreds of other like-minded journaling sojourners around the world will be asked uncomfortably provocative questions that will support you in accessing a level of innate truth and clarity that most people would have a hard time finding on their own.

All you need to bring is a journal, a pen, a warm beverage, and a present open mind.

We'll bring the journaling prompts, the time-keeping, the good vibes, and great company!

introspection.

reflect & plan.

  • You started 2023 with big plans but then life got in the way.

  • You started 2023 with big plans and you just need to take a step back and look at the big picture.

  • You don't keep a regular journal or reflection practice, but would like to.

  • You do keep a regular journal and want to take your practice to the next level.

  • You hold yourself to high standards of performance but rarely take time for introspection.

  • You want to live a more intentional life but aren't sure what questions to ask yourself.

  • You've been avoiding important truths in your life and are ready for a higher level of self-honesty.

  • Your past year (or 3 years - pandemic and recession, anyone?) has put you under new kinds of stress and you want to get back in the driver's seat.

  • You live a busy life and would appreciate a compressed, accelerated way to reflect on your life's direction.

This is for YOU if…

Is this a private or group journaling experience?

bravespace events are hosted on Zoom as a group video call.

Many people will join excited to participate in the community aspect of this gathering: using the public chat as their journal, coming "on stage" to share vulnerable or inspiring breakthroughs, and supporting others with private messages and emoji reactions.

But some prefer to take advantage of the facilitated journaling prompts privately, and for that Zoom has "Camera Off" and "Mute" buttons!

What’s the backstory here?

We will speak very little during this event - it's not about us, it's about you. But in case you're wondering who's behind this...


We're Franzi and Ted.

Married couple, co-parenting 3 rowdy wonderful boys. We both work full-time--Franzi as a leadership coach and healer to high performing tech executives and political operatives, and Ted as a startup growth exec and mentor to fathers finding their way. We do our best to live our life intentionally, especially because it can often get pretty chaotic.


Each December for the last several years, we've given our kids to Franzi’s parents for a half-day to deeply reflect on the year's events, and plan the year ahead. We often precede it with a workout, nature walk, and some deep breathing before snuggling up into a cozy spot with a warm drink for a few hours of radical self-inquiry and journaling. It’s an incredibly potent way for us to cultivate alignment and connection in our relationship to each other, and to ourselves.


At the end of 2020, we decided to invite a few friends to do this with us over Zoom, but what started as a small idea ended up becoming a global event with hundreds of our friends, family, and colleagues, and so many good vibes!!! Loved ones from around the world gathered to journal together in unison. It was magical.


The success of this event led us to produce many more like it, each centered on important life themes, and now thousands of people have journaled through powerful life questions—together! The community is called bravespace and it’s been the highlight of our year to bring friends together in such an intimate way during the pandemic.

50% of attendees at each bravespace event are newcomers, and 50% are repeat attendees. So, if you’ve come to our events before, join us this time - we’d love to see your familiar face! And if you’ve never joined, please consider this your warm invitation.

FRANZISKA GONDER

Coach to high performing leaders in tech, politics, and philanthropy

Host of Leadership that Heals the World podcast

Co-founder of bravespace

Sought-after facilitator and speaker on topics of nervous system regulation, energy management, trauma-informed culture building, and intentional life design

Boy mom (3x)

TED GONDER

Sought after mentor to fathers and men finding their way

Former advisor to President Obama

Serial startup exec

Co-founder of Bravespace

Boy dad (3x)