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27 September - 8 November 2024

We are living through wild times of great change. Times of unravelling of the modern structures we have built. Times in which we are summoned to start transforming ourselves and the paradigms and legacies of separability from nature and from each other, of scarcity, and competitiveness, into a livable future.

Holding change is a sacred work. And it needs community.

Many of us are engaged in leadership and activism for healing, liberation, and resilience. This circle is an opportunity to be in community, to explore the connection between our own healing and the collective healing; and to receive nourishment for our work in the world.

In the circle, we sit around the virtual campfire, breathe together and share deeply. In a space of deep connection rather than certainties, we let the earth and community hold us, remembering we belong; remembering we are part of the wider metabolism of life.

We cultivate capacities and allow guidance, and make space for things to come to us and through us. These are the capacities for emergence. We remember that more than anything, our future depends on the quality of relationships we have in the present moment.

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We will sit with some of the following questions:

  • What is mine to do? In response to the growing crises around me- what is worthy of my time here?
  • How does modernity live in my body? What constrictions and lessons can it offer?
  • How do I grieve the current reality, holding hold hope and despair together? Can I be both inspired and lost?
  • What am I, what are we, initiated into?
  • What are the relationships between personal and collective, intergenerational healing?
  • What medicines do I carry?
  • What capacities do I need to develop? How do I bring them forth and show up most fully in the world?

These questions have no definite answers. As with all good questions, what’s important is not to find answers but to keep living the questions- in good company.We sit, listen to, and witness each other. And we remember: it’s a radical act just to sit together on the ground.

This is a pilot of Healing Circles Europe, an emerging initiative that supports connection, healing, and belonging in Europe. It is part of the Healing Circles Global Network:

https://healingcirclesglobal.org

https://gergina.org/healing-circles-europe/

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What are healing circles?

The healing circle is a space and practice of connection, presence, compassion, and healing in community. Each circle softens the heart, reconnects us with our inherent trust and wisdom, and provides guidance on the healing path.

The healing circle is participatory, guided by the logic of a 'leader and healer in every chair'. We share deeply and witness one another.

Circles are guided by a simple format and a unique set of Agreements.

The intention of healing circles

The intention of healing circles is to create a safe space in which we heal ourselves, one another, and the world.

Healing circles agreements

Participants in healing circles agree to the following:

  • We treat each other with kindness and respect.
  • We listen with compassion and curiosity.
  • We honor each other’s unique ways to healing and don’t presume to advise, fix, or save one another.
  • We hold all stories shared in the circle confidential.
  • We trust that each of us has the guidance we need within us, and we rely on the power of silence to access it.

The circle is grounded in the Hospicing Modernity body of work by Vanesssa de Oliveira, which invites us to unpack our modern conditionings and explore the teachings of an unraveling world, to hold complexity and bring forth our gifts and medicines.

We will draw on this and other resources to support us in nurturing of our moral imagination for individual and collective change and evolving a political practice of healing.

This is a drop-in class. We meet virtually on the Zoom platform, and plan to meet regularly through the fall of 2024. 

The first dates for the circle will be 

Wednesday, September 26;

Thursday, Oct 3; 

Friday, Oct 11; 

Friday, Nov 1; 

Friday, Nov8;

The circle is small, confidential, priceless & gifted. 

Please register to receive the Zoom link.  

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Healing Circles Europe

Georgia Efremova
georgia.efremova@gergina.org