Circles
An invitation to gather differently.
Across cultures and traditions, people have long gathered in circle to share stories, mark transitions, seek wisdom, and tend to one another. Circles at Wild Heart Meadow carry this spirit forward through small, intentional gatherings that may weave together shared inquiry, mindfulness, nature, creative expression, ritual, embodied practice, and relational process. Whether offered as experiential group counseling, seasonal gatherings, or workshops, each is an invitation to slow down, notice what is alive within us and between us, and remember that healing and growth do not have to happen alone.
Current & Seasonal Offerings
Offerings change throughout the year, responding to the seasons and to the questions that feel most alive. Some circles meet for a series of weeks, while others may be one-time gatherings or seasonal rituals.
As the Season Turns:Tending the Fire Within | Women’s Circle
Sundays, 1:00–3:00 PM | October 25–December 20
This eight-week women’s circle is an invitation to slow down and gather in the midst of a world that asks so much of us. Together, we will explore care and caretaking, the women’s wisdom and mythology, feminine archetypes, our relationship with the living world, and what it means to tend our own inner lives while so much competes for our attention.
Following the movement of the season, we will begin with harvest: noticing what has grown, what has nourished us, and what we are carrying. From there, we will explore discernment and letting go, tending what remains, making space for rest and darkness, and listening for what is quietly alive beneath the surface. As we approach the Winter Solstice, we will ask: What is the ember of vitality I want to keep alive through the darkness?
A Dedication to Grief
An experiential six-month circle for tending sorrow, together.
Grief asks something different of us than most of modern life. It asks us to slow down. To listen. To make room for what cannot be fixed or hurried along. And perhaps most importantly, it asks us not to carry our sorrow alone.
Over six months, we will gather once a month for an extended four-hour circle devoted to developing a deeper relationship with grief. Inspired by Francis Weller’s work and his understanding of becoming an “apprentice to sorrow,” we will approach grief not as something to overcome, but as something we can learn to tend, express, and allow to move through us.
Our time together will weave conversation and shared inquiry with meditation, embodied and expressive practices, time in nature, ritual, silence, and relational witnessing. We will explore the many forms grief can take: grief for people we have lost, unlived lives and unmet longings, endings and transitions, the suffering of the world, estrangement from the natural world, and sorrows that may be difficult even to name.
Starting on Saturday, November 7, 2026
The Shadow of Intimacy: An Experiential Relationship Circle
Wednesdays, 4:30-6:30 PM, October 21-December 16
What happens within us when we allow ourselves to be deeply known?
Intimacy can awaken some of our deepest longings: to be seen, understood, desired, accepted, and met as we are. And yet, as we move closer to another person, we often encounter the very parts of ourselves we have learned to protect, hide, judge, or leave behind.
This is the terrain of the shadow.
Over eight weeks, we will explore intimacy from the inside out, becoming curious about what happens within us and between us when we move toward deeper connection. We will explore the parts of ourselves that emerge in relationship: the parts that reach for closeness and those that pull away; the parts that fear rejection, abandonment, engulfment, conflict, or vulnerability; and the parts carrying shame, desire, tenderness, anger, longing, and the wish to belong.
Rather than only talking about relationship, we will use the circle itself as a living laboratory for relational practice. Through shared inquiry, mindfulness, parts work, embodied practices, paired and small-group exercises, and here-and-now group process, we will notice what arises as we practice allowing ourselves to see and be seen.
