Makipag-Ugnayan
Maligayang pagdating sa Ugnayan Substack!
This is the place for us to stay meaningfully engaged with our community.
The Ugnayan newsletter is a monthly pause to reflect and reconnect with yourself. It explores the different wellbeing themes in our Ugnayan Cards, their meaning, value, and practice, as well as announcements on community gatherings and other things that bring meaning, joy and freedom in our lives, which we hope connect with you.
Sadya ng Paglikha | Intention of the Creation of Ugnayan
Ugnayan means connection in Tagalog or Filipino language.
Nilikha ang mga baraha na ito para magsilbing kasama sa paglinang ng mas makabuluhan at mapagpalayang pakikipag-ugnayan sa sarili, sa kapwa at sa mundo sa pamamagitan ng pagmumuni-muni at pakikipagkwentuhan.
Through open-ended questions, inspired by concepts in wellbeing science, Filipino psychology, language and culture, Ugnayan invites you to create space for intentional grounding and joyful growth.
The deck includes 96 thought-provoking questions, organized in 12 different wellbeing themes, written in both Tagalog & English, and a short guide to help you facilitate a more connecting space for yourself and others.
By reconnecting with your own experiences and narrative, and listening to that of others, we hope to generate more empathy for ourselves and for each other towards a more mindful, fully expressed life.
Mapabilang | Be included
Follow @ugnayancards on Instagram for more of our bite-sized content.
Subscribe to our Ugnayan Substack newsletter to go deeper into each theme featured in the deck in monthly-ish intervals.
Makilahok | Participate
Join our community gatherings when we announce them on Instagram or Substack.
Contribute to the Ugnayan community playlists on Spotify so that we can stay in tune with each other.
Magbahagi | Share
Post your #uwugnayan stories and tag @ugnayancards to share how you’re using the cards to create connection.
By subscribing to this newsletter, you’ll become part of a community of people who want to intentionally reconnect with themselves, others and the world around them. We may not have all the answers to the questions we ask ourselves or that others ask of us, and it’s likely that more questions just emerge, but we hope to help you stay rooted in the intention to bring connection into our own lives and that of others.
Lastly, subscription is free for now. So come on in, and invite a friend along!
Ang mga tagapaglikha
Jen Horn | Tagapagpadaloy
@jenhorn_ | @pagbubuo | bit.ly/jenhorn
Jen is a facilitator (tagapagpadaloy), coach and writer, born and raised in the Philippines. She cultivates connection through spaces for reflection and conversation, so that individuals and teams can unblock their own flow. Her curiosities and practice lie in the intersections of culture, creativity, and the wellbeing of the individual, communities and the planet. She shares her learning and the evolution of those ideas through @pagbubuo.
Kookie Santos | Kalaro
@kookiesantos | kookiesantos.com
Kookie is a Filipino designer from the Philippines. Her work embraces silly, funky and spontaneous forms that wish to express a sense of joy and wonder. Her approach to her work is her personal reminder of gentleness and fun-loving lightness to oneself and then to others. She is most curious with playful exploration.