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What is Intentional Healing?

Addressing Meaningful Questions
Intentional healing is the conscious sustained effort to enhance the healing process. Healing itself is natural. Intentional healing is a conscious strategy of supporting this natural healing process.
March 20, 2018
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The Power of Story in Intentional Healing

Addressing Meaningful Questions, Practicing Circle
Our stories can readily become the most powerful guides we can find to intentional healing.
March 20, 2018
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Dropping in for a Cup of Tea and a Circle of Two

Addressing Meaningful Questions, Practicing Circle
As humans, we are happier and healthier if we have someone to talk to when we need it. For people who are newly diagnosed, grieving, at a turning point, or simply needing to connect, we offer circles of two at Healing Circles Langley.
March 13, 2018
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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.
February 21, 2018
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The Circle is Big Enough

Addressing Meaningful Questions, Front Page, Front page post, Practicing Circle
A circle is big enough for all of us. For all parts of us. And for all stages of our life journeys.
December 8, 2017
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Deeply Buried

Accessing Emotion, Addressing Meaningful Questions, Coming together post, Discovering Self through the Arts
One man’s unwavering courage to heal his unattended sorrow changed many lives.
December 7, 2017
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Healing Circles as a Place of Refuge

Addressing Meaningful Questions, Front Page, Front page post
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.
December 7, 2017
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Depth without Digging

Addressing Meaningful Questions, In Your Home
After one circle struggled and ended, Commonweal Cancer Help Program alumni found a way to build a circle that lasts.
December 7, 2017
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Everyday Prayers

Addressing Meaningful Questions
Every day—every day—I wake up wanting it to be different than it is.
December 7, 2017
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The Spirit in Everyday Life

Addressing Meaningful Questions
Milagros have been used for centuries throughout Latin America and represent the universality of humans acknowledging the presence of spirit in everyday life.
December 7, 2017
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Healing Circles Global

This blog contains contributions from members of the Healing Circles learning community. Note that bloggers' opinions are their own and don't necessarily reflect those of Healing Circles.

Authors

  • Angela (Ang) Coxen
    • Circles for teachers and their students
  • Beth light
    • Circles at nursing retreats
  • Canda Lambert
    • Healing through song
  • Chris Adams
    • A Theme a Month for Hospitals
  • Christina Baldwin
    • The roots of circle
    • Let the Sacred Festivities Begin
    • Holding Space for Challenges Within Circles
  • Claire Robson
    • Words from a Caregiver 
  • Healing Circles Global
    • The gift of living with cancer
    • The benefits of persistence
    • In search of authenticity
    • Lifting the veil and encountering Truth
    • Finding meaning in circle
  • Corrine Bayley
    • Listening Within
  • Cynthia Clough
    • Zooming in on the practice of self-care
    • A culture of healing
  • Danielle Schroeder
    • Remembering With Love
    • The Power of Music and Singing
  • Daphne Lobb
    • The Spirit in Everyday Life
  • David Spaw
    • Healing Circles Houston: Where BIG Meets the Pace of Guidance
  • David Talmor
    • An elephant-sized impact
  • Deborah Baker
    • Caring for a Soulmate
  • Denise Carrico
    • The Healing Blessing of Yoga
  • Diana Lindsay
    • Are you a karmic yogi?
    • The Birth of Healing Circles Langley
    • Women Sharing, Women Witnessing
    • Discovery Circles
    • Dropping in for a Cup of Tea and a Circle of Two
  • Ed Halloran
    • Veterans Helping Veterans
    • Starting Healing Circles in Communities of Faith
  • Francis Weller
    • An Apprenticeship with Sorrow
  • Fred Rogers
    • Why Newly-Established Healing Circles Sometimes Fail
  • Gladys Campbell
    • Why Are Nurses Drawn to the Circle?
  • Gretchen Schodde
    • Opening to Miracles
    • Bringing Healing Circles to Nurses
  • Helen Spaw
    • Healing Art Circle
  • Jacqueline Fowler
    • Deepening engagement through the expressive arts
  • Jane Klassen
    • Healing from Chronic Pain
  • Janie Brown
    • What Makes a Circle Healing?
    • In Exile 
    • How Callanish Began
    • Dr. Deb
    • Deeply Buried
  • Jaune Evans
    • Circles at cancer retreats
  • Jeanne Strong
    • Roots: Exploring the Art of Wellness
    • A Day in the Life of Healing Circles Langley
    • Gracious Listening
    • Searching for Soul Through Poetry
    • Asking Open and Honest Questions
  • Joanne Turnier
    • Through Healing Circles, Nurses Gain a Renewed Passion for Their Profession
  • John (Geo) Errante
    • Re-entry circles with incarcerated men
  • Joshua Berkowitz
    • Strategies for Pain Relief
    • Agreements for a Truly Safe Space
  • Judith Adams
    • Healing Circles: A Poem
  • Justine Greene
    • Silence
  • Kate Davies
    • Developing a Mindfulness Meditation Practice
    • The Healing Power of Mindfulness Meditation
  • Catherine (Kate) Dussault
    • Crash Courses and Healing
  • Kate Stivers
    • Writing to Heal
  • Kathleen Kraemer
    • An A-B-C of Stress Management
    • Commonweal Cancer Help Program Alumni Circles
  • Kelly Lindsay
    • Healing circles: rooted in five agreements
    • Healing Sound Bath
    • Catch and Release
    • Healing Circles as a Place of Refuge
    • Uncertainty 98249
  • Khris Ford
    • Some assumptions about grief
    • Healing Grief Circle
  • Lianna Gilman
    • Embellished Journals
  • Liora Amichay
    • Observation and Breathing in Healing Circles
    • Getting Started in Jerusalem
  • Lisa Peacock
    • Finding My Tribe
  • Lori Tupper
    • The tightrope
  • Lynn Nelsen
    • Circle Poets
  • Merijane Block
    • Everyday Prayers
    • Longing to Leave
  • MaryLiz Smith
    • Anyone Can Sing
    • The Faces of Fear
  • Michael Lerner
    • Year-end letter from Michael Lerner
    • A Love Letter to Healing Circles Langley
    • Starting Commonweal and Healing Circles
    • What is Intentional Healing?
    • The Power of Story in Intentional Healing
  • Molly Wertz
    • Caregiving for loved ones
  • Nicci de Wet-du Toit
    • Sitting at the feet of masters
  • Oren Slozberg
    • Healing Circles Retreat Opening Remarks
    • Healing Circles for Youth
  • Catherine Dussault
    • Writing from the heart
  • Petra Martin
    • Dying without an elephant
  • Polly Marshall
    • Preventing cancer while supporting those who have it
  • Rob Feraru
    • Opening and Closing a Healing Circle
  • Sharon Garfinkel
    • Far apart, yet so close
  • Sue Baldwin
    • Riverbank
  • Susanne Fest
    • Healing circles in Europe and beyond
    • From Zoom Room to Ballroom
    • The guardian: noticing and sensing
    • Healing Circles and Existential Issues
    • Circle Magic
  • Susie Merz
    • A Healing Circle for Supporters
  • Terri Mason
    • The traveling mandala
    • Sitting with Uncertainty
    • Depth without Digging
  • Wendy Miller
    • A Conversation with a Widow’s Nervous System
    • ‘I Am Rushing:’ a Mantra of Love and Memory
    • Managing the Time Warp of Loss: Why Do They Want to Marry the Widow off?

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