DETAILS:

Date: 27st September 2025
Time: 4.30 PM - 6 PM IST
Mode: Online, on Zoom
Facilitator: Bhupender Sharma

The roles are beginning to shift. There’s a sense of responsibility— not out of obligation, but because we care. This thread tugs at us. We come together to name these truths. Not to fix, or figure it all out, but to sit with what is real. To witness each other with tenderness. Inviting you to a listening circle on ageing parents.

Bhupender Sharma

Mindfulness Based Facilitator

Bhupender is a multidisciplinary person. As an artist, listener, facilitator, and creator he brings in his wide range of skills and interests along with sensitivity, attunement, and vulnerability to create space for exploration within and out.

He has done Mindfulness Based Counseling: Listening with Embodied Presence course offered by Just Being Center in 2018. He currently works as a facilitator for an undergraduate experiential learning degree program at Let’s Enterprise.

Close or not,

you’re intertwined

with the faces that welcomed you to life,

eyes that watched over (or didn’t)

hands that held you (or didn’t)

Maybe now it’s different

in between your hands and theirs

is discord, distance, delusion

regret, hurt or confusion

guilt, shame, exclusion

Maybe there also was/is still

gratitude, love, familiarity

safety, warmth or similarity

and a wordless solidarity

Maybe you had to walk away

maybe you have to stay away

for jobs, building your life or self-preservation

– or maybe they walked away

but their steps now are slower

and the lines on their hands

more wrinkled with memory

And you want to hold them

or let them go on

on the path all must walk in full

but the fear knows not where to go

nor does the grief

For it too is wrinkled

with all said and unsaid

amidst a life you’re still figuring out

The quest for stability

torn with duty, responsibility

Walking

The same path as they are

Just behind, maybe different

Or maybe all the same

\-  Devanshi Srivastava

We come together to name these truths.

Not to fix, or figure it all out,

but to sit with what is real.

To witness each other with tenderness.

Inviting you to a listening circle on ageing parents.