Our Omphalos

09/02/2026

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12/01/2026

10/11/2025

Offered free of charge and no registration necessary. All are welcome. 💚

24/10/2025

Thank you to the Hamburg Central School District for inviting me to participate in their staff development day! It was a pleasure ✨💜

29/01/2025

Life is an inside job.💚

I hide.

Most of my life, I thought it was a bad thing. Weak, immature, afraid, flawed, frail and fragile. Those were some of the words I used to describe, “this way”, “my way”. It no longer serves me or us. It never did! Alone is difficult but it does allow us to listen carefully in our silence. One of my greatest fears is to “be seen too early”, to “be named too easily”. (D.Whyte)

Recently, I mustered up the courage to lead a community group discussion, through Village Engaged, on J. Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation. We focused on the positives. Labeling groups of people in one word is tough. Yep. Anxious, but there is a whole lot more to that story. Always is. Discussed were all sorts of ways to ease our collective anxiousness.

Next, we participated in a Health and Wellness evening at school. The kids shared their ideas and understandings about our community. It’s always good for me to spend time with people closest to the planet. Our kids have crystal clear instincts and so many note worthy insights. It felt great to be out with them.

Angela Farmer, one of my favorite yoga teachers, poses this question: “How can I help the world?” She answers brilliantly.

“Some people have the ability, the strength and the courage to go into the world and do big things but I think if we do things inside they can become pretty big.”

Much love and gratitude to those out there doing big things to help the world and just as much to those of us who need to hide. Hiding is not doing nothing. Emerging slowly, in due time, is also beautiful, heartfelt and a very worthy way.

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21/06/2024

“For children to live only in contact with concrete and steel and wires and wheels and machines and computers and plastics, to seldom experience any primordial reality or even to see the stars at night, is soul deprivation that diminishes the deepest of their human experiences.”

Thomas Berry - Catholic Priest, cultural historian and scholar of the world’s religions.

Our Omphalos 💚 - why the name?
“The sacred center of everything.”
Perfect.

I came across the concept of omphalos a while back, and it keeps surfacing. In the classical world, the omphalos was a physical object placed in the “navel of the world.” The ancients believed these places were the sacred center of everything, and in a world where the human population was a tiny...

07/11/2023

I had the pleasure and privilege of participating in the 6th Annual Designing for Empathy Summit and Workshops in NYC.

Elif Gokcigdem PhD, Author, and Founding President of One- Organization of Networks for Empathy and many others provided 3 days that were informative and productive. Our time together was inspirational and motivational.

Our Omphalos is busy implementing many of the tools and techniques I learned with middle schoolers and their families, youth leaders, senior citizens and teachers.

Thank you to the sponsors and organizations who made this event possible.

I really loved every single second! 💚

, .empathy.network

06/10/2023

Our Omphalos was so proud to sponsor the Charlotte Avenue School Fun Run. The PTSA organized and implemented the event. PTSA organizations do so much to enrich the lives of our students and build strong, resilient communities.
The fundraising goal was $30,000. and the community came together to accomplish that goal. Funds will be allocated to improve STEM lab, bring the community together more often, provide programs to address student social emotional health and provide teachers with some really nice additional enrichment resources.

Support your local PTSA.
Parents have power. 🌎💜

27/08/2023

💚So happy to share heart centered yoga and meditation with a group of women who gathered today to celebrate their friendships. 💕

14/08/2023

“Arbol is a company driven to help underserved students with financial strains make it to graduation. They help the institutions become more accessible and eliminate the socio economic barriers that prevent colleges and universities from serving as many students as possible.”


provided a table at the Arbol Fundraising Event on August 17th. “

“The GNF writes micro grants to new founders every quarter. They also serve as the connective tissue to the entrepreneurial ecosystem.” Very helpful!

Grateful to Jason Bartz and GNF for the opportunity to attend and share what we do!

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09/08/2023

Thank you to our Town of Hamburg kids for making posters to decorate our Senior Center with positive thoughts.

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09/08/2023

Hey Parents! Wondering what Our Omphalos can do for your children and our community? Come check us out on Saturday at the Hamburg Farmers Market at 9:30am!