Where Contemplative Practice Meets Social Reality

What do you do when meditation spaces feel disconnected from the world's urgency, but activist spaces offer no framework for sustainable engagement?

Light Hive bridges this gap—offering Buddhist-inspired wisdom and mindful play for people navigating identity, uncertainty, and collective crisis without bypassing the hard stuff or burning out from overwhelm.

The Gap I Seek to Fill

I kept noticing the same pattern across communities:

• Meditation spaces avoided engaging with systems of power and offered little in terms of engaged off-the-cushion mindfulness practices

• Activist spaces had no frameworks for sustainable, embodied practice

• Few spaces acknowledged the unique experiences of adoptees and others living at the intersections of identity

As our collective challenges intensify—climate crisis, political polarization, economic uncertainty—we need practices that are both deeply personal and radically collaborative. Neither individual transcendence nor collective action alone will be sufficient.

This is a both/and practice.

Who Light Hive Is For

I hope my writings and offerings help people who

• Feel torn between spiritual practice and social engagement

• Live at the intersections of identity (especially adoptees, queer folks, people of color)

• Experience eco-grief, political overwhelm, or digital overstimulation

• Want to practice adaptation without toxic positivity

• Are curious about using play as a laboratory for new ways of being

My Background & Approach

I'm Logan (they/them)—a queer transracial adoptee, educator, and facilitator who's spent nearly twenty years weaving together Buddhist practice, performance theory, and lived experience at the margins of belonging.

Light Hive emerged from this complexity. My approach draws from:

• Buddhist philosophy: Not as dogma, but as pragmatic framework for understanding suffering and liberation

• Performance theory: How we rehearse, embody, and transform our ways of being

• Narrative design: Using structured play to practice new patterns and possibilities

• Lived experience: Centering perspectives from the borders of belonging

Currently, I teach writing at UCLA while running Light Hive as a space for community, practice, and mindful play.

Connect & Collaborate

I'm always open to connections, collaborations, and conversations. If Light Hive's approach resonates with you, please:

• Subscribe to receive essays twice monthly

• Join our next Creative Coalition game (open to all)

• Email me at logan@lighthiveintegration.org

• Follow on Blue Sky or Substack Notes

Sending you much metta!

Logan