Connected Hearts: A Community for Women Ready for Something More Real.

What is Connected Hearts?

Connected Hearts is a community for women who refuse to let life get smaller and want more connection, joy, growth and room to be fully themselves.

Each month, members gather for an evening that goes somewhere real. Every gathering is personally designed and facilitated by founder Cheryl Dillon, drawing on her background in coaching and experience design to explore something relevant to life or relationships. You’ll gain fresh perspective, try new things, laugh, have fun and leave feeling more connected to yourself and to the women around you.

And it doesn’t end there. Between gatherings, members have additional ways to spend time together through optional social get-togethers, one-on-one time and everyday moments of staying in touch.

Every aspect of Connected Hearts has been intentionally designed.

That includes who’s in the room, what happens when we’re together and how we treat one another. It’s what makes it easy to be yourself, feel welcomed and included and never wonder what to say or how to fit in.

It’s also what turns a group of women into a community.

No politics. No religion. Phones away.

It’s a place where you can let your guard down, leave the pressure of everyday life behind and enjoy quality time with women you genuinely enjoy being around.

Ready to see how it all comes together?

Why I Created Connected Hearts

Life changes. Relationships shift. Priorities evolve. And sometimes we reach a point where we realize we want something more from the way we spend our time and the people we spend it with.

We start asking bigger questions about what we want our lives to feel like, who we want around us and what kinds of experiences we want to have.

I found myself asking those questions, too.

I wanted to surround myself with women I could laugh with, have interesting conversations with and continue learning and growing alongside.

I wanted a place where we could be completely ourselves and never worry about fitting in or being talked about behind our backs.

And I wanted a community where we were willing to let one another in and take a genuine interest in each other, giving some of those connections the chance to grow into friendships.

When I couldn’t find anything like that (and I looked), I decided to create it.

Connected Hearts is the community I was searching for and the one so many women tell me they were searching for, too.

Experience Connected Hearts in Carlsbad

Connected Hearts is an in-person community in coastal North County San Diego.

Learn more about the women, gatherings, rhythm and culture of the community, and see whether Connected Hearts might be something you’d enjoy being part of.

Connected Hearts feels different than anything I’ve ever experienced before. There’s a warmth and authenticity here that’s hard to find. I’m so grateful this community exists.

Brenda G.

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