Velentines have been delivered across the land and we’ve met our match!

Thanks to all who participated in the practice of spreading gratitude and supporting us in creating a wider welcome to people looking to practice listening, love and connection in community. Thanks to you, we have sent gratitude and joy and raised scholarship funds to increase access and welcome.

This map is just a sampling of the places Valentines have been sent. May gratitude continue to grow in the mycelium and aquifers of heart-to-heart connections.

One story of impact of this annual initiative:

“Parker Palmer's written work was a lifeline in my early teaching career and ripened for me as I transitioned out of the "traditional classroom" and into the classroom of youth climate justice work. In the last two years of the Courage Cohort, WholeHeart unlocked another level of this work in me. I'm so grateful to their team's attention to energetics, dedication to integrating life and practice, and of course for the financial support of the Valentines of Gratitude Fund. This community provides a place for me to land amongst the like-minded people who are dedicated to practicing an undivided life. You support my outer work at Our Climate as readily as my inner work writing poetry, with the fullest understanding of "life on the mobius strip" I could ever hope for.

Eben Bein (he/they), 35, queer, white