FREE Community Integration Circle: Bringing the healing back home

Why might you join in this Community Integration Circle?

What if your story is more than just your story? What if it is a gift to be given to others?

We invite people to come together to listen and to share their journey's to being well from our wonderful community.

Our ancestors knew how to integrate their individual insights into the community, sharing dreams, telling stories of rites of passage and intitaitions, of time being in the shadows to be able to walk in the light.

So often in modern times we do our 'personal work' in privacy, the security of the individual and therapist relationship, the grieving behind closed doors, the tears shed alone even the anonymous participant in that group workshop.

Our wounds most often come from our relationships; from our parents or caregivers as children, from our close and intimate lovers and loved ones, from the places we feel we belong, or not, in our communities.

We believe that bringing the healing back home, to the community, is a lost but important part of completing the process of our individual experiences, bringing them back to the relational space.

Whoever you are, whatever your healing journey has entailed this could be a space to tell your story, to be listened to, to be heard, to gift it to other's and to feel connected to your fellow humans sharing the path of getting well.

You are welcome to come and 'hold the circle', to be present in the important role of listener. To be inspired and honoured by hearing others paths.

What to expect

A small group will gather. You will be guided with a short meditation to allow us to land together as a circle.

We will invite 4 people to tell their stories. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t told it before, it doesn't have to be complete, or poetic or polished, it can be spontaneous and raw and messy and full of whatever feelings it evokes (just like our journeys through life). Each storyteller will have 10 minutes to share and (if they wish) 5 minutes to hear people’s heart felt responses.

The circle will be facilitated by your hosts Liz Lilley & Jon-Paul Marshall.

Liz Lilley

www.lizlilley.com

Liz is a Psychotherapist, Psychedelic Expansive Breathwork facilitator & Psychedelic Therapist, Mentor and Trainer. She has a passion for people coming together to share their healing journeys, she says:

“I work with people individually in therapeutic processes as well as in groups, one of the things that always makes my heart sing is what happens when we begin to share our experiences with others, when we tap back into our community and when we connect.

We realise aspects of our stories touch others, help others, open doors to other people's insights and understanding, we can deeply feel that we are not alone but actually intrinsically connected. Bringing our stories back home as gifts to our communities and integrating them back into our day to day can be the most beneficial and change-making part of any process.”

Jon-Paul Marshall

Jon-Paul is a Counselling Psychologist, Psychedelic Therapist and community enthusiast.

JP says “I believe that the deepest healing often occurs when, in all of our messiness and vulnerability, in our grief and ecstasy, we are safely held, with love, in community”