Starting in 2010 OMHG was a gathering place for creativity, community, and collaboration organized and edited by Jessika Hepburn. We worked together to gather and celebrate our diverse stories, talents and knowledge while asking important questions through our site, chats and events. What started out as a resource grew into a community of kind, creative folk using their head + heart + hands to make good lives.
For many years OMHG hosted a welcoming peer support community where we could unplug from social media that disconnects and plug in to a community that fills us up with goodness ready to make a difference, in our day and our world. This inclusive community space was offered by donation so makers could contribute financially or with skills and time. The community space is closed but this archive is available as a resource for others seeking to imagine inclusive and accessible communities on and offline.
Stories for our Heads, Hearts & Hands
Since 2010 OMHG published over 1200 articles sharing the stories, skills and talents of the creative community. For 5 years over 50 contributors from around the world explored making a life of meaning from all angles and crafted a welcoming place no matter where you might be at on your creative journey. Every month we took on a new theme from crafting movements to living an ethical life, our diverse perspectives keeping things lovely & lively. Currently we are not accepting contributions but you can check out the archives.
The OMHG Story
For years the OMHG community met weekly on Twitter with the hashtag #OMHG before starting to build an online community. To learn more read Jessika’s timeline of growing OMHG from a tiny seed into a community garden or visit her about page. Spend some time in our archives seeing how we’ve grown and finding food for the head, heart and hands.
Social media can be like fast food, it fills us up, but leaves us hungry for the goodness under the surface. OMHG’s goal was cultivating true, meaningful connections. The kind that lift you up, inspire confidence, and offer support for taking action on what you care about most whether it’s dismantling racism, crafting a lovely and loving life, creating a handmade business, making positive change, or mixing up your recipe for community and care.
OMHG was a pocket of care online and we made it a friendly, respectful neighbourhood that welcomed and celebrated our diversity because true community is always inclusive. The goal of OMHG was to create a place to unite fellow makers to make more goodness, pull up a seat at our table, and bring something to share.
