Are you longing for a different type of conversation around motherhood and womanhood? Something deeper that isn’t centered around the children or the partners? An experience that is for you to explore the many facets of your identity and your journey thus far.
Do you have a desire to gather with mothers of all ages and stages of motherhood? Are you looking to connect, exchange wisdom and see yourself reflected as the multitudes that you are? Would a few maps of this ever changing territory be helpful to you?
Come join us in MotherCircle, an 8 class gathering for mothers who want to understand the unseen arc of their motherhood journey. This is for mothers at any stage or age, from contemplating motherhood through grandmotherhood!
Each meeting will be centered around a specific topic (see below for more information regarding each class) and we will have time to both reflect inwardly and connect with one another, whether that is through journaling, small dyad discussion and larger group shares. The circle will include a brief meditation and time to check in with our bodies. We will be learning and sharing, reflecting and witnessing. I hope this will feel like deep easeful and nourishing sacred time together.
While I am a licensed therapist and I hope this experiencial group will be healing, it is not a therapy group.
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We begin the MotherCircle 8 week series with MotherDive, an archetypal journey to meet Inanna, queen of heaven, as she makes her descent to the underworld. We will locate ourselves in this story. This is usually a favorite class and continues to ripple out through the series.
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In MotherCycle we will explore the ways that we are cyclical beings and how we might locate ourselves from the micro to the macro rhythms.
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The third class is MotherBody. We will explore what a new mother needs after birth (hint, it’s everything a new baby needs). We will also learn ways to tend to what our body might need no matter where we are in our motherhood journey.
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MotherJaguar is our fourth class and is so rich. This could be a whole series on its own! We will explore the predator-prey dynamic (are you a rabbit or a wolf?) and the amazing adaptability of our nervous system.
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We are now deep into the series as we move into MotherBirth. In this class we will learn the many ways that we communicate and express ourselves. We will have a chance to move with a part of our birth story and access the wisdom that may be held there.
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In MotherLover, the sixth class, we will explore the intersection of our sexual selves and our mother selves, which are often at odds with each other. We will normalize and learn how to stay connected to our ever evolving sexuality.
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As we round the corner nearing the end of our series we have our second to last class, MotherWorth. In this class we will be circling around the many intricacies of the relationship between work and mothering. We will explore how we might nurture our own worth as an integral aspect of our mothering practice.
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This puts us in our final class, MotherCode. We are formed by our motherline and the ways we have been mothered. We have an important opportunity to decide what we want to carry forward and how we want to shape our own legacy. In this class we will be identifying the values we want to mother by and pass onto our lineage.
A BIT ABOUT ME…
Hello! I am so glad you have found yourself here. I am a mother to a sweet and funny two year old. I am also a licensed therapist with a jungian and somatic background. How do I balance such things as caring for my child and participating in my career, both of which I love dearly? I don’t know! Figuring it out as I go. I like to say that I straddle the worlds - I am a spiritual practitioner and a lover of all things deep, meaningful and magical. I am comfortable in unknown spaces and helping others to hold the same. I also am very grounded, practical and I love solving problems!
I love music and dancing and being in community.
I am a certified MotherCircle Facilitator as trained by Kimberly Ann Johnson and Jessica Connelly at www.MotherCircle.com. MotherCircle curriculum is the work of Kimberly Ann Johnson, Author of The Fourth Trimester (www.kimberlyannjohnson.com) and Jessica Connelly, founder of Moon Daughters (www.moondaughters.com).