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In Your Community

Research reveals the tremendous power of social support in healing. Good social support improves your health and negative (or no) social support can damage it. In fact, no social support is the equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

Healing circles might be a welcome addition to an existing community center, or you might be inspired, along with a group of others, to create a healing circle that serves a specific population. Centers serve circle members through the ups and downs of illness and recovery, through success and failure, joy and grief, throughout the life cycle of circle members.

Here are some blog posts that provide more information:

Multiple hands

The benefits of persistence

Coming together post, In Your Community

For Serita Winthrop, one of the best things about being a co-host for Healing Circles Global was that it gave her an opportunity to serve others from home. At 80, she struggled with the technology involved, especially Zoom, but she persisted.…

Ferry to Vashon Island

Lifting the veil and encountering Truth

Cancer post, In Your Community, Practicing Circle

You wouldn’t think a 37-square-mile area inhabited by 11,055 people would feel like a small town, but Vashon Island does–especially for someone like Gail Labinski. During her decades as a teacher, she has watched many an islander grow up…

The Birth of Healing Circles Langley

About post, Front Page, Healing Circles Centers, In Your Community

Healing Circles Langley has grown from two monthly circles to hosting 60 circles or events per month. All of this has been accomplished without any paid staff. We raise our own money through the generosity of local Whidbey donors.

People gathered in circle

Starting Healing Circles in Communities of Faith

Getting started, In Your Community, In Your Organization

Learn how Healing Circles Houston helps faith communities benefit from healing circles by partnering with them.

Getting Started in Jerusalem

In Your Community, In your retreat center

Our program, Revadim, was established in order to bring the Commonweal model supporting cancer patients to Israel.

Healing from Chronic Pain

Addressing Meaningful Questions, In Your Community, Practicing Circle

It wasn’t an experience I was eager to revisit. Pain (mostly migraines) and fatigue dominated my life for 15 yrs. I cannot offer a formula for my return to health…

Discovery Circles

Accessing Emotion, Discovering Self through the Arts, In Your Community

Arts enable breakthroughs in our thinking and our understanding of self in crisis that our rational minds may withhold.

10 Tips for Getting Started

In Your Community, In Your Home, In Your Organization, In Your Profession, In your retreat center

How we got started at Healing Circles Langley feels like a miracle—outside of any norm we could have conceived. The right people showed up time and again to co-create, serve, and stretch us to do more. Capturing that process in ten tips seems…

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.

Reaching Back, Giving Forward

In this Thriving Communities video, Diana Lindsay talks about her recovery from stage IV lung cancer and the opening of Healing Circles Langley.

Photo courtesy of Harmony Hill