So there are a ton of studies out there that show how important community is and how much it can have an impact on our happiness, on our heart health, on our longevity.

And also what seems to be clear is that these days not a lot of people really have it.

So today we're going to talk about what community is and how we can find more of it in our lives.

Welcome to the art of accomplishment, where we explore how deepening connection with ourselves and others leads to creating the life we want with enjoyment and ease.

I'm Brett Kistler here today with Joe Hudson.

Hey, Brett.

How you doing, Joe?

I'm doing really well.

That thing we did yesterday was so fulfilling.

It was so hard opening and wonderful.

And yeah, I'm still just basking in the glow of that.

Yeah, it was beautiful. For some context, we had a grief ceremony yesterday. For somebody in our community who recently lost a child, and it was just really, really tender, really moving.

And in the final sharing circle, it was just amazing to see how much unexpected value people got from it that was far beyond just the expectation of like, we're grieving this loss.

And I think part of what was behind that is just that there were so many different experiences

happening in the same place. Yeah. And there was a sharing of it and a support that, yeah, that's just something

I really want to have in my life. Yeah, it was an amazing situation because, you know, so for a little

context here, a person who had been in one of

my courses that you were in like five years ago or something, I hadn't heard from forever

called up and talked to me about the death of his child. And I immediately was like, we need

to mourn together as a community. And in my head, immediately,

I was like, this is something that's important for the community and it's important for them.

I think in their mind, it was something like we were doing for them. And there was like

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