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How to host a healing circle

Healing Circles is not a classroom with teachers and students, experts and novices. It’s a learning community. The only requirements are to bring your soul, commitment, and creativity to the work. The prerequisites? We all meet them, whether they’re easily accessible or hidden for the time being. They are the life experiences that make us uniquely human and uniquely capable of supporting one another.

Oren Slozberg

How to Host a Healing Circle

Level one training

We’re delighted to announce that we’re now accepting applications for our online Healing Circles training.

All training takes place live online. Participants spend half their time in instruction and the other half in small circles. Because this circle experience is irreplaceable, participation in all sessions is required.

Our goal

Our goal is to train people who have a strong and sincere motivation to host healing circles.

Healing circles help participants experience the powerful benefits of social support by providing a safe space, attentive listening, community, and resources.

We’e looking for compassionate listeners who can bear witness to the suffering and joys of others without thinking they’re responsible for finding a way out of them.

If that describes you, this training will prepare you to host healing circles in your community or through our global platform.

Why now?

Social support has always been a critical component of health and well-being. According to research, it’s even more important than diet, sleep, and exercise.

And during this pandemic, the ability to safely gather with others and support one another through these uncertain, stressful, and often isolating months is even more important. We have the technology to do it. Now, we’re looking for the hearts.

Our circle hosts derive great meaning from being able to help their fellow humans.

What are the course objectives?

In this training, you’ll:

Discover the key concepts and format of a healing circle
Improve your capacity for attentive listening and compassion
Learn how to create a safe space online
Participate in a healing circle
Practice hosting a healing circle

What does it cost?

There is no cost, but we gratefully accept donations to Healing Circles Global to help further this work.

What experience do I need?

The best experience is to have already participated in a healing circle. Essential is the ability to work effectively in small group settings, to know or at least sense that you have the skills to do circle work, to self-regulate in groups so you can share time generously with others, to be comfortable with silence, to have a fundamental sense of personal humility, and above all to be willing to speak from your heart.

What happens after I register?

You’ll receive an email message confirming your acceptance into the program. Because of space limitations, you might be put on a waiting list. If you’re unable to attend a program you signed up for, please let us know as soon as possible, so we can free up a spot in the training for someone else.

To help us make the best use of our time together, we’ll send links to resources to review before the training begins. This will free you to enjoy the experience rather than taking notes.

Thank you for your interest! Please share this page with others who would benefit from this training.

Register now

We invite you to participate in our How to Host a Healing Circle training, which takes place over three sessions. Please plan to attend each one.

Training is free, but donations are gratefully accepted.

How to host a themed healing circle

Level two training

If you’d like to volunteer as a host or guardian for a circle offered through Healing Circles Global, we offer further training in how to host one of our themed circles. These include: