What is a Dream Circle?
Dream Circles are communities of practice, shared council, and wisdom. Each encounter is comprised of a process/action to embody, inquire, or inspire, as well as dyadic and small group inquiry, and circle-wide sharing. In a circle, we practice deep listening, witnessing, and experiencing being received and held. In doing so, we co-create a vessel for our stories, grief, and profound love for the world. We sing, give testimony, and share in the transformation of solitary struggle into the shared work of the village. We honor the seasons, providing space to think deeply about shared environmental and social concerns, and work together to resolve trauma, coming into more profound aliveness and alignment with our own truth.
By committing to one another for deeper periods, we come to discover the imperfect beauty and resilience of an egalitarian space crafted over time, which has worked through the surface to delve into the rich space of relational spirituality. Dream Circles are inspired by traditional practices from global indigenous communities, land-based cultures, as well as the work of deep ecologists.
Ouroboros
Virtual Circle
Oct ’25- Apr ’26
Ouroboros is a diverse and supportive community that comes together bi-weekly to nourish and enjoy the relational, contemplative, and creative practice of mutual council, peer support, and witness. We generate an intention to awaken and heal ourselves so that we may extend this enlivened presence into our lives. This circle is gender inclusive and has members spanning five decades of life.
Expect laughter, tears, silence, and practices to strengthen your ability to listen and be supported and present for what matters most in life. Entering its fifth year, new members are accepted based on the availability of space and alignment with the norms and values of existing members.
Main Gatherings: Every other Monday, from October through mid-April
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Optional co-held Zooms: On the off weeks, there will be a one-hour Zoom space for mutual aid and contemplation, facilitated by rotating members of the circle
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A spring retreat: We’ll culminate our journey with an optional day-long retreat at Westways (Long Island) Details to come.
- Oct: 6, 20 Nov: 3, 17 Dec: 1 Jan: 12, 26 Feb: 2, 23 Mar: 9, 23 Apr: 13, (27 for make-up day if needed)
New Cycle Announced Soon
Joining Our Wilderness
In-Person Circle
Oct ’25- Apr ’26
Joining Our Wilderness is a monthly in-person circle of council, practice for new and seasoned members of the community. Emboddied, relational, seeed planting, collective librative stategies, creative praxis, contemplation, co-awakening, A congregation from the cracks.
- Oct 27th, Nov 24th, Dec 8th, Feb 9th, Mar 30th, April 27th
New Cycle Announced Soon
Warmth
Virtual Circle + In-Person Grief Ritual
Mar/ Apr ’26
Warmth is a place to tenderly work with the material of grief in the warm container of a collective community.
Whether you are mourning the acute loss of a loved one, facing ecogrief, confronting your own mortality, the loss of a relationship, the loss of the village, ancestral grief or grieving for the collective, this space is designed to hold you in your process of transformation. This circle is also for those who care for others who carry the grief of those they serve, ancestral grief or grief accumulated through loneliness, or as a byproduct of separation from the natural world and village-mindedness.
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Two virtual circles meeting monthly will include prompts, creative and contemplative exercises and peer processing and council. We will use the work of Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow as a shared text throughout our time, touching into Francis’ gates of grief as an anchor.
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One in person day-long retreat and community Grief Ritual at Westways Sanctuary on Long Island.
- New dates TBD