FABRIC

Regular gatherings knitting together threads of
community, care, creativity and conscious co-creation.

A day for community to gather, lounge in the park,
play some games and enjoy the summer.

Fabric is freely offered and produced with 🧡 by CEIO.

Fabric’s Thoughtful Threads

Photo from Conscious Facilitation Series at the April 30, 2025 Fabric.

Fabric provides workshops and training designed to nurture your practice and deepen your learning. Register to attend a variety of offerings specifically designed to support you in being more conscious about how you use your power in all your relationships.

Photo from Group Coaching for Facilitation at the April 30, 2025 Fabric.

with varun khattar sharma and Steven Tatum
11:00am to 12:30pm = workshop
1:30pm to 2:30pm = group coaching

Do you regularly facilitate meetings, whether at work, home, or a grassroots project? Are you interested in being part of an intentional learning community with others seeking to develop a more liberatory facilitation practice? Join us for Conscious Facilitation!

This four-part series is being offered in both Hamden and Hartford!

Want to be more thoughtful about how you show up and co-create greater equity and wholeness with yourself and others? Together we will explore how we might cultivate this practice throughout the seasons. We will seek to apply frameworks and practices to our everyday relationships at home, work and in our communities.

Come together with other folks interested in exploring a variety of solidarity and care economy models and how we might bring them to life for the benefit of our local communities! During each workshop we will briefly review a model and then workshop how we might make it happen and/or help it grow locally.

“I am so grateful to Fabric for offering such a great workshop at the exact moment we needed it. The material was so precise, and it was really interactive and inspiring.”

“Great to have the space to make new connections and also debrief with my team. My head felt full. Lots to think about and move forward with!”

Get and Give Guidance, Insight and Encouragement

We believe in both honoring the wisdom of the collective and the benefit of individualized support. During Fabric, get access to individual guidance, group coaching and peer support spaces. 

At Fabric you can book individualized coaching with folks like:

varun khattar sharma

varun (they/elle) is specifically offering individual coaching around group facilitation design and practice.

Steven Tatum

Steven (he/him) is specifically offering individual coaching around group facilitation design and practice.

Armela Waters

Armela (she/her) is an Albanian-American immigrant mother, coach, facilitator, designer, writer and organization development advisor. Armela has been coaching individuals and groups for over 10 years to explore, release, and transform patterns that keep people stuck and create a path to a more authentic life and work by reconnecting to emotions and building supportive structures for transformation.

Through group coaching we aim to create a safe and supportive space to hold each other. Join us to support or bring a problem that you could use some listening time around and new perspectives from other community-minded folks practicing more liberatory and inclusive ways of relating. We will be using the Critical Friends Group Protocol as a structure for our time together.

Flex your creativity and celebrate in community

Photo from Collaging for Collective Liberation at the April 30, 2025 Fabric

with Farron Harvey

Community Line Dancing

with Sharese Adele

Local dance instructor Sharese Adele is back and bringing the community a fan-popping fabulously good time with her accessible line dancing class. Whether you’re new to line dancing or a master of strut you’re sure to have a good time!

Post Up: The Content Lab

with Loren Jefferson

Join Loren for a chill but powerful session designed for creators, entrepreneurs, and visionaries ready to step up their content game in 2025. We’ll share tips, tools, and strategies to help you plan better posts, create with confidence, and connect more deeply with your audience. Come through to brainstorm, build, and vibe with a community that gets it.

We are currently planning 3 more Fabric events throughout the rest of the year so mark your calendars!

  • Friday, August 15th
    Fabric Field Day, at a local park TBD.
  • Thursday, September 18th
    at Whitneyville Cultural Commons and stay for a Deeper Change Salon.
  • Thursday, October 30th
    at Whitneyville Cultural Commons.

CEIO’s Deeper Change Forums and Salons — host speakers, artists and workshops to address and move us toward systemic change throughout our society, with an emphasis on New Haven.