We have two monthly Healing Story Circles, which is a process unique to our courses. We follow a very specific process for creating the space, slowing down, and reflecting what we're hearing rather than trying to fix or solve someone else's problems for them. It creates the space for YOU to discover what your truth really is. And the skills you'll learn in this process itself will help you to heal relationships in your own life. Those who attend the Healing Story Circles consistently say that it is one of the most important things in their month and they anticipate the next one so they can share and heal. When we have the space to really be seen, heard, and felt, we have more space to see, hear, and feel the story of someone else. We acknowledge what's really happening and we also help each other to find our strengths and our resilience. Participants leave feeling empowered to go back into their own lives with new eyes about what's happening. We currently offer two times each month, one morning eastern and one evening eastern. We have participants attend the calls from Australia, Europe, South Africa, South America, and across the US and Canada.

We always follow the same process when we're holding a Healing Story Circle. We slow down and connect with our own bodies, then the space we're in, then each other. We all do a brief check-in and discover who has something they would like to share. Not everyone shares in every circle. Those who are not sharing and listening to reflect, not to share their own story. It creates a safe space for everyone when there are some rules to guide the process. Listeners can ask questions to clarify, but primarily the reflection is what keeps this space safe. It allows us to really hear someone else and to practice listening in this way. It is one of the most profound relationship skills we can ever develop. We focus on the resilience, the strengths, the positive attributes we're seeing in someone else that are sometimes difficult to see in ourselves. Parents leave the circles feeling empowered and with more clarity about their own lives. We close our circles with an integration exercise and something that we're taking with us from our time together.

So, is this for you? If you're willing to try something new, to take a chance to join a safe space where others can see, hear and feel your experiences with you, then yes. If you're willing to learn to listen in a new way that will enrich your life, then yes, this is for you.

I do ask that everyone who attends the circles shares something at check in and reflects something back, even if it is something small. When we don't know someone else yet, silence may be interpreted as judgment.