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Safety in Numbers: Five Circle Agreements

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For everyone in the circle to feel truly safe, the underlying assumption must be that everyone in attendance will honor the Circle Agreements, and that the Host and Guardian will be resolute in attending to them.

What Makes a Circle Healing?

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The only person who can accurately perceive a circle to be healing is the individual circle participant. Healing, as with pain, is what the person says it is.

Through Healing Circles, Nurses Gain a Renewed Passion for Their Profession

Getting started, In Your Profession

Nurses create circles of hope and healing each time they accept the invitation to be part of an intimate moment of a person’s life at birth, in illness, and at the moment of death. It is in this sacred space where nurses have the greatest opportunity to create environments of healing.

10 Tips for Getting Started

In Your Community, In Your Home, In Your Organization, In Your Profession, In your retreat center

How we got started at Healing Circles Langley feels like a miracle—outside of any norm we could have conceived. The right people showed up time and again to co-create, serve, and stretch us to do more. Capturing that process in ten tips seems…

The Healing Power of Love

Accessing Emotion, Addressing Meaningful Questions, In Your Community

A terminal diagnosis led to 10 lessons on love and the start of Healing Circles Langley.

Asking Open and Honest Questions

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Learning to respond to others with honest, open questions instead of counsel, corrections, and advice can be a life-altering practice.

Healing Circles as a Place of Refuge

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At the bottom of every waterfall or cataract—regardless of how wide, how tall, how thunderous—is an eddy. This is a place of refuge where the current turns back on itself, the river flows upstream, and time itself seems to stop.