In a time of year filled with brightness, celebration, and busyness, we gather to honor what is also true: that grief has a place here. Sorrow and love are woven together, and those carrying loss, whether personal or collective, deserve spaces of gentleness, belonging, and acknowledgment. This is a space for reflection, warmth, and community witness— where loss is seen, and grief is valued as an extension of our love. 

This conversation explores the often-unspoken pain of the mother wound—how unmet maternal needs, emotional neglect, or generational trauma can shape a woman’s sense of self, relationships, and worth. We'll create a safe, compassionate space to explore how these relational ruptures influence identity formation, emotional regulation, and interpersonal functioning in adulthood. If you've ever felt alone in this experience or unsure how to begin healing, you're not alone—this conversation will offer understanding and insights into the complexities of grief, boundary formation, and the path toward individuation and healing.

In this conversation, we will explore the common reasons people are walking away from the institution of the church (spiritual homes) and their teachings, but are still longing for places of connection and belonging that offers spiritual depth and meaning. Special focus will be given to the pain of spiritual homelessness, and the hope of new connection.

What if aging wasn’t something to hide or fix — but something to honor, explore, and live into with imagination and grace? Join us for a community gathering where we’ll speak openly about the things we’re not supposed to — grief without language, identities we’ve outgrown, bodies that are changing — and reimagine aging as a beautiful, brave becoming. Come reenvision the ways we grow through creativity and courage to keep becoming more authentically ourselves. 

Join The Art of Becoming Collective for our final summer gathering, where we’ll rediscover the joy that lives inside the parts of us that were once silenced, overlooked, or forgotten. Through intentional re-parenting, we’ll explore how to create new patterns of care, self-trust, and emotional safety—both for ourselves and with others.

Reclaim your playful spirit in this mid-summer gathering focused on reconnecting with the authentic, unfiltered self. Through the lens of imagination, we’ll explore how inner child work can help release shame, rebuild trust, and awaken joy.

We’ll explore what it means to re(member) ourselves—bringing back the pieces of who we are that may have been forgotten, hidden, or silenced. This session invites you to begin noticing how your past experiences shape present patterns, and how the inner child longs not just to be seen—but to belong.

Join us for a reading by Megan of her books,  When Dreams Collide & Dance to the Moon and reflect alongside her beautifully crafted characters (inspired by her own children!). As we face fears, walk tightropes between mountains, and imagine bold dreams, we’ll be reminded that courage grows best in the soil of a supportive community.

Join us for an hour of facilitated conversation about the ways food either exasperates mental health symptoms, low energy, inflammation, and brain fog or contributes to improving mood, energy, and mental clarity. As a Certified Integrative Mental Health Professional, Julie will facilitate a conversation about the undeniable connection between our gut health and brain health, practical tools to support improved symptoms, and personal antidotes from a 20-year curiosity about using Food as Medicine. Book recommendations and resources for personal application will be available.

Continue our series in the Art of Becoming and healing in community through the use of expressive arts. Julie Kittredge will invite you into a conversation about how expressive art and community are a natural way to engage the healing process together as we explore our individual understanding/experience of community with a small individual project and then bring our collective selves into a process of engaging beauty, nature, and healing together as we collaborate on something bigger than ourselves. Reflection and sharing of your experience will be optional but invited.

We all have a relationship with hope. It is a force that has the power to sustain us through the darkest of times, but it often comes at a significant cost to its beholder. This cost is too often overlooked, misunderstood, or altogether neglected for the sake of “keeping spirits alive” or “staying positive.” CJ Rithner invites us to sit with and in the pain of hope; to consider that the hope of becoming is an invitation to our grief, and our grief is the gateway to our personal and collective healing. 

Healing in Community- The essential “we” and function of curating community collaborative care to inspire healing within. Come explore how our collective believes that healing in community calls us to the essential work of the 'we'. We cannot be spiritually, psychologically, or emotionally whole until all are well, for true wellness honors the inherent value of each person in our shared humanity. We are interconnected and healing is therefore a shared, collaborative journey that invites us to look within.