Finding Beauty in Loneliness

Is it possible to find any beauty in loneliness? Writer, facilitator, and community builder Monika Jiang thinks so.
Monika Jiang, a second-generation Chinese immigrant, has always walked the line between feeling estranged and belonging. Her journey, marked by oscillations between aloneness, loneliness, and connection, has profoundly influenced her personal and professional life, shaping her into a visionary who senses what wants to emerge as we move closer to ourselves, each other, and the world. Professionally, Monika has made a significant impact at the House of Beautiful Business. Here, she helped build a global community of 50,000 members dedicated to a life-centered economy. By curating and hosting transformative gatherings, she helped business leaders imagine and transform themselves and their environments. Collaborating with brands like Google, Porsche, Salesforce, and Volkswagen, Monika led a team responsible for thought leadership content, brand strategy, and innovative event design, creating an "alternative temporary world" for exploration and change. Monika’s deep desire to move from loneliness to oneliness inspired her to found the initiative Sharing Our Loneliness. This initiative aims to raise awareness about the paradoxical power of loneliness to reconnect us with ourselves and others. Through intimate gatherings, writing, and speaking engagements, Monika cultivates spaces for dialogue, connection, and community, addressing loneliness as a personal, collective, and societal challenge. As an independent consultant, Monika helps to elevate and deepen insights, engagement, and impact of community-focused businesses and organizations. Additionally, she is a teacher in training with Humanize, an evidence-based program focused on fostering emotional and social skills, and she practices these skills based on social neuroscientific research at the Max-Planck Institute in Berlin. Above all, Monika is committed to bridging divides, asking essential questions, and stepping into the realities of others to make more feelings known, more faces seen, and more voices heard.
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