Why This Moment Needs Co-Creation
People who fight, perform, or stand for something speak in energy. When they step forward, the crowd responds—and that response feeds them. That scene in K-Pop Demon Hunters where the crowd empowers the girl group, and the standing ovation for Jasmine Crockett on Brian Tyler Cohen’s show—these are the same energetic mechanism. They show us how attention, applause, and shared feeling accelerate courage and action.
One Breath In is a co-creation exercise built to harness that same power—without lights, stages, or TV cameras. It’s a quiet grid that links people across distances and cultures and gives everyday people a way to feed the energy of each other. No matter who you are, artists, activists, journalists, civic leaders, farmers, business owners, students, moms, dads, workers—we are all a part of one world.
A Scene that Teaches: K-Pop Demon Hunters
There’s a scene in K-Pop Demon Hunters—Rumi and Jinu at the inn—that stays with you. When Jinu rescues Rumi from the Demon King, Rumi confesses to him that she wanted to set him free. He replies, “You already have. You gave me my soul back... And now I give it to you.”
His soul of light wraps around her and empowers her, and that empowerment ripples outward through the crowd. Suddenly, the whole concert is lit.
That’s not fantasy, not a metaphor—it’s precisely what happens when attention, compassion, and focus align. The performer fills the field, the crowd gives energy back, and both are strengthened. It’s a mutual exchange, a co-creative feedback loop in action. That scene models exactly what One Breath In aims to do: turn individual resonance into collective power, a global concert of co-creation.
A Moment in Real Life: Jasmine Crockett’s Standing Ovation
I watched the exchange of Jasmine Crockett and Brian Tyler Cohen during his show, as they honored each other for the work that they both do in the world, throughout the interview. He gave her her flowers for the work she’s doing, expressing deep gratitude for her courage and brilliance.
As he acknowledged her steadfast work in the world, the crowd couldn’t help themselves—they rose to their feet in a spontaneous standing ovation.
Jasmine Crockett, ever humble, asked for them to stop. But the applause isn’t for her vanity—it’s gratitude in motion. A standing ovation is the public’s way of saying: thank you for giving me courage.
We don’t applaud people for doing their jobs. We applaud them for giving us strength to keep going. And so, in that moment, what the crowd offered wasn’t for her alone—it was to replenish both her and themselves. It was energy being returned to the one who has given so much of it and in her next breath would continue to give them courage as the interview continued.
To Jasmine: let us give it. Let us fill you backup! Gratitude also empowers the one who gives it as much as it does the one it is given to. Because when the noise of critics and trolls tries to drain your spirit, this collective gratitude refills the well.
That is the essence of One Breath In—gratitude as energetic reciprocity in co-creation of a better world.
Culture, Borrowing, and Shared Resonance
As a Black woman, you see the influence of Black American music in K-pop and feel a rightful tension about cultural borrowing without credit to its history. For example, Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal was a heavy influence on the demon boy band in the K-pop Demon Hunter movie.
And yet when we zoom out, what matters from a co-creation standpoint is the energy exchange. If people of all cultures fed one another energetically, it would make a richer global grid in co-creation. What if the entire human race, across cultures, intentionally gave each other our energy—willingly—to co-create joy, safety, healing, sustainability, and freedom?
That’s the heart of One Breath In: we tune into each other’s frequencies and amplify what we want to see in the world. We don’t steal power—we share it, reciprocally, like nodes on a grid.
Co-Creation Exercise in Motion: The Concert, The Rally, The Studio
You know how an entertainer says, “I need your energy”? That’s not hyperbole. The One Breath In co-creation exercise scales that phenomenon:
It’s the concert where the crowd lifts the artist.
It’s the standing ovation that fortifies the public servant.
It’s the newsroom or comedy show that gives us courage wrapped in laughter.
One Breath In gives everyone access to this amplifier without being physically present. You can send energy, focus, and encouragement in a way that empowers leaders, creators, and organizers to hold steadier and fight longer. It's a vibrational march of millions co-creating change in their minds and empowering themselves as change makers in action.
OneBreathIn as a Co-Creation Exercise — The Mechanics
This is the how-to: One Breath In is a 59th-minute co-creation exercise (but you can do it any time):
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Choose the 59th minute as a meeting point for a global gathering of energy.
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Visualize—picture someone you want to empower (a warrior, artist, caregiver, leader) or a shared outcome like safety, joy, or justice.
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Eyes open. Soft gaze. Hold the image. Feel the energy in your chest.
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At the top of the hour, breathe in deeply, anchoring that visualization into your body, cells, and intention.
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Know it is reciprocal. Your attention strengthens them; their service returns strength to the field.
You can do this quietly in public or alone at home. It’s private and troll-proof—no one can police what’s in your mind.
This Is a Grid, Not a Drain
Feeding energy isn’t vampiric. It’s grid generation—mutual power amplification. When we pour light into a public servant like Jasmine Crockett, or a creative team like K-Pop Demon Hunters’ performers, it ricochets. Their strength returns to the community. Choirs, concerts, crowds, rallies—these already show how energy compounds when many tune into the same frequency.
That’s the promise of a co-creation exercise: a daily, silent million-person march that builds resilience and courage without anyone needing to be physically present. This is our human power, activated through our empathy.
Practical Pulse — How I’m Doing It (and an Invitation)
Here’s what I’m doing now: I come to the co-creation grid at 10:59 a.m. and 9:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (I plan to add more hours as I master this practice). If you choose to join the practice, pick the hour that fits you. Start with one session per day and expand. I’m in Brooklyn, New York, co-creating at those times and will increase as I feel the shifts.
This is a call to everyone who thinks they “don’t have anything to give.” You do. Your attention, your visualization, your breath—those are powerfully empowering tools.
Why This Matters Now
The world is already a network of people trying to do the right thing. One Breath In simply gives us a daily, practical way to feed that network. It’s private, impossible to censor, and rooted in the same energy exchanges we see in music, politics, and collective action.
You can watch the news, feel upset, and then refocus: set an intention and breathe it into the grid. You aren’t naïve—you’re strategic. You’re also contributing to something larger.
Closing: A Pulse for the People
This piece is a pulse—a co-creation thread glazed with practice. It’s inspired by K-Pop Demon Hunters, Jasmine Crockett, Brian Tyler Cohen, and the many public voices and artists who have given us breath: Jimmy Kimmel, Reese Waters, Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow, the Have I Got News for You team, Josh Johnson, Trevor Noah, and countless unnamed creators across the world who transmute truth into courage and laughter into light.
It is a reminder and an invitation: we already feed each other. Let’s feed courage, freedom, and joy.
One breath. One minute. One shared vision. One grid.
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