What Makes a Circle Healing?
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.
Janie Brown is the executive director of the Callanish Society, a nonprofit organization that she co-founded in 1995 for people who are irrevocably changed by cancer and who want to heal, whether it be into life or death. Her blog is lifeindeath.org. She is currently working on her first book.
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.
Sharing moments from a tender counseling session with a bereaved mother, Janie Brown takes a strong and compassionate look at the impact of loss on our hearts and our lives. Do we actually “move on?” Do we actually “get over it?”
Janie Brown’s longing to address the non-physical aspects of cancer led to the creation of Callanish.
Dr. Deb has figured out how to enliven the lost soul not just for her own healing but also for the healthcare professionals in her life.
One man’s unwavering courage to heal his unattended sorrow changed many lives.
Healing Circles Global is proud to be a program of Commonweal, a four-star Charity Navigator nonprofit, working in three core fields—health and healing, art and education, and environment and justice.
Healing Circles are a peer-led practice rooted in deep listening, compassion, and shared humanity. While they can be deeply supportive, they are not a substitute for clinical, medical, or therapeutic care.

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