A healing circle is a peer-supported gathering where participants take turns listening and speaking without advice, interruption, or judgment—creating the conditions for genuine connection and the often-rare experience of being truly heard.
Circle Agreements
- 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 each of us has the guidance we need within us and we rely on the power of silence to access it.
Circle Practices
- We listen with attention.
- We speak with intention.
- We avoid cross-talk.
- We mind our time.
- We do our best to use I statements
- We speak to the center.
- We use a talking piece.