Please join us for our monthly gathering of the Community Care Circle
Hosted by Stevie Joy Leigh and Amy Goldenberg
We will be gathering virtually on the Second Sunday of each month from 5-7pm PST. Click the button below to join!
All are welcome and donations are appreciated but not required. Below is an overview of what to expect from this space and our reasons for creating it.
Our Reason
We wanted to create this space so we can all learn to drop into vulnerability and be communally held. In the chaos of this year, we are seeing how deeply we need to be witnessed and cared for by those around us. This isn’t a new practice. But over time, rugged individualism has encouraged us to feel alone in our experiences. We learn that we can’t ask for help or that others will not understand us or have the capacity to hold us in our grief or rage or frustration. We’re taught that we have to go to a professional in a closed off one-on-one space to work on ourselves. And while this can be helpful, we also need to incorporate the missing piece of co-regulation with other people. We need to remember what it is to create community that is generative, safe, and supportive.
We wanted to create this space to combat the gatekeeping and gurufication that’s so present in the health and wellness fields. And we want to use this space as an opportunity where we can all learn how to ask for help and allow other people to care for us. Our individual experiences are unique yes, but there is a network of connectivity we can all connect to through and with each other.
What to Expect
The first speaker will share what they are experiencing from the heart. They’ll give us an outline of where they’ve been, where they are now, and what they are hoping for around their topic. Ideally there is a thread or theme that we can all relate to and use as a jumping off point for the rest of the group to share.
You will never be called on directly and you don’t need to share if you’re not moved to. Presence is also healing.
We will stay together for about 2 hours and at the end we will stay on the call for about ten minutes so you can connect in the chat box with anyone whose story moved you or anyone you feel you want to establish more of a relationship with.
We would like to see this group alternate roles- we'd love to see different people open up and close the space each month and see different people choose to be the first speaker. Amy and I are happy to be in these roles, but part of what we are creating here is a space where everyone has an opportunity to be seen and heard.
We will be doing this every month- please invite anyone you feel might want a space like this in their life.
Community Agreements
(Modeled after the Rooted community)
Trust that it is safe and okay to make mistakes.
Aspire towards non-judgement and practice being toxic-shame free
Speak and listen from the heart
Learn to take up space (practice speaking up) and make room for others (practice active listening when others share).
Taking Responsibility - We can grow in our ability to own what is ours, and we can also learn to take responsibility when need be for something we might do or say. This is a practice.
Embracing the Pause - allowing for moments to pause, drop in, and process for yourself.
Consider conflict as generative & repair as possible
Check assumptions about who we think others are and about their behavior. Allowing ourselves and others the freedom from our fixed perceptions.
Permission to Take Care of Yourself First. Honoring a need to pause, or attend to yourself. Allowing others their experience and process w/o needing to take care of them.
Confidentiality - please don’t share personal stories or information about others in the group with people outside the group.
How to Support
You can join in with a one time donation (any amount you feel is appropriate) through Venmo-- @StevieLeigh or @Amy-Goldenberg-1 --or you can support Stevie on Patreon.
There you will find tiered support levels- for $7 a month or more, you have a standing invitation to any of her donation based community events. This includes this Community Care Circle and the Full Moon Show & Tell she hosts monthly.
If you plan on coming regularly to Stevie’s community events, this is an option worth exploring.