Circle wisdom can support us through all of life's thresholds.
It anchors us so we can mine the profound wisdom that wants to come to the surface.
MotherCircle is an 8-class journey that allows all to be seen, felt, heard, and witnessed. It’s an opportunity to metabolize all the unseen parts of a mother’s journey—the physical, emotional, spiritual, sexual, archetypal, and ancestral
All mothers are welcome to take a seat in the circle.
New mothers, mid-life mothers, grandmothers, mothers to be, or women holding space for mothers.
The circle supports all stages and seasons and honors that there are many ways we come to motherhood including birth, adoption, foster, kinship, blended, and more.
It anchors us so we can mine the profound wisdom that wants to come to the surface.
MotherCircle is an 8-class journey that allows all to be seen, felt, heard, and witnessed. It’s an opportunity to metabolize all the unseen parts of a mother’s journey—the physical, emotional, spiritual, sexual, archetypal, and ancestral
All mothers are welcome to take a seat in the circle.
New mothers, mid-life mothers, grandmothers, mothers to be, or women holding space for mothers.
The circle supports all stages and seasons and honors that there are many ways we come to motherhood including birth, adoption, foster, kinship, blended, and more.
Sitting in circle with women is the oldest code.
Ancient wisdom and modern research tell us that when women gather,
their mental health drastically improves. It is truly amazing that when we witness and listen to other mothers share, we often feel like parts of our own story and self are witnessed too.
When we gather in circle, we feel less alone.
Ancient wisdom and modern research tell us that when women gather,
their mental health drastically improves. It is truly amazing that when we witness and listen to other mothers share, we often feel like parts of our own story and self are witnessed too.
When we gather in circle, we feel less alone.
Do you need more support than you've ever needed but feel like less support is available to you?
Are you still healing from your birth, loss, adoption and/or early motherhood experiences and not sure why or what to do?
Are you feeling alone as you navigate your own transitions and thresholds while mothering your kids through theirs?
Do you desire to live into a new archetype of womanhood and motherhood but are unsure of what that really looks like?
Are you still healing from your birth, loss, adoption and/or early motherhood experiences and not sure why or what to do?
Are you feeling alone as you navigate your own transitions and thresholds while mothering your kids through theirs?
Do you desire to live into a new archetype of womanhood and motherhood but are unsure of what that really looks like?
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"We created MotherCircle to mend the threads of disconnection and build the world we want our children to belong to." -Kimberly Ann Johnson & Jessica Connolly, founders of www.mothercircle.com MotherCircle was designed by Kimberly Ann Johnson and Jessica Connolly and I'm delighted to be a part of the inaugural cohort of trained MotherCircle facilitators to bring this dynamic work to my local community of mothers in the Triangle , North Carolina area and online |
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MotherCircle is soul-level work.
We choose to be in community and connection with mothers of all walks of life as we wrestle with many of the same questions, struggles, and joys that challenge us. As we do this work together, we begin to dissolve the layers of separation, isolation and overwhelm that so many women experience when they cross the threshold of maiden into motherhood. This is reparative work for us individually, collectively, and culturally, We return to circle at all ages and stages to share wisdom and see ourselves in each other's stories because we continue to mother through each and every threshold we encounter. Once a mother, always a mother. We circle around one another because were never meant to mother alone. |
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Building Mother Culture Together
Together, we are creating the world we want to leave to our children and future generations. There is a seat in the circle for you.
Together, we are creating the world we want to leave to our children and future generations. There is a seat in the circle for you.
Throughout our journey, you will witness and be witnessed in some of the following practices:
COMMUNITY * CONNECTION * WITNESSING
INTEGRATION * DEPTH * LAUGHTER
BREATHWORK * SOMATIC PRACTICES * JOURNALING
STORY * POETRY * MYTH * WISDOM
COMMUNITY * CONNECTION * WITNESSING
INTEGRATION * DEPTH * LAUGHTER
BREATHWORK * SOMATIC PRACTICES * JOURNALING
STORY * POETRY * MYTH * WISDOM
MotherCircle is for ALL mothers, grandmothers, mothers to be, or women holding space for mothers. It supports all stages and seasons and honors that there are many ways we come to motherhood including birth, adoption, foster, kinship, blended, and more.
Why MotherCircle?
"In MotherCircle, there’s a wisdom that is unique. It’s like the circle holds wisdom itself and all the grandmothers who came before us are there helping us remember our own wisdom.
The journey we go on allows all to be seen, felt, heard, and witnessed. There’s a pause to metabolize all the unseen parts of a mother’s journey—the physical, emotional, spiritual, sexual, archetypal, and ancestral." -Karla Johnston-Krase
Here's how we flow through the weeks and what the classes cover
Entering motherhood is often an underworld journey, often not seen and recognized by the outer world. Learn the arc of this journey, the tools to present to it, and be witnesses as you locate yourself within it. These are resources to support every threshold you cross while mothering.
Everything a new baby needs, a new mother also needs. Everything a child transitioning into a new family needs, the one who is mothering them also needs. Learn a powerful framework for assessing your physical and emotional wellness, and how to tend to what’s needed in your body no matter where you are at in your motherhood journey.
Birth is an initiatory experience that fundamentally changes us. No matter how a woman grows her family or welcomes a child, a mother is born and this too is an initiatory experience. We’ll explore ways to access and share this experience that locates the wisdom that it has to offer for our motherhood journeys
Motherhood changes how we relate to our work in the world. Explore the relationship between your worth and your value and anchor the things that nurture your worth as part of your mothering practice.
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Awareness of our cyclical nature can help us align with our innate wisdom as mothers.. Explore how being in rhythm with the cycles in and around us gives us more access to our wholeness and our power.
The predator - prey dynamic is present in our experience of birth and motherhood. Explore how this awareness and understanding of your nervous system can impact your everyday life and mothering.
There is often a split between being a mother and being sexual. Learn how to connect with your ever changing sexuality as a mother and become more at home in your body and your sexuality.
We have a powerful opportunity to imagine the legacy we’d like to leave. We are shaped by our motherline and the mothers around us, and we can choose what we want to carry forward. Together we’ll Identify the values that we want to guide our mothering and shape our lineage.
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MotherCircle is for...
- Mothers of all seasons and stages with children of all ages, whether you're newly a mother or an elder mother with grown children and grandchildren.
- Mothers who are mothering through birth, adoption, foster, kinship, blended family, or any of the ways we come to motherhood.
- Women who want to become mothers.
- Women who've miscarried, experienced the death of a child or other losses on the journey to motherhood, whether you are actively mothering children now or not.
- Mothers longing to gather around meaningful topics and motherhood wisdom.
- Mothers looking to live into a new narrative, and redefine motherhood on their own terms.
- Women caring for mothers who want to deepen that space and connect in circle themselves
- Mothers craving a pause–a little time and space for real self care and reconnection to self
If you have any specific questions about this space as you discern if it’s right for you, reach out and ask.
PAYMENT PLANS ARE ALWAYS AVAILABLE. Reach out.
*Please contact me if price is inhibiting you from joining the circle.
Class Details for the Online Circle...
- 8 live weekly classes, each class is 75 minutes long. We meet in Zoom.
- Access to a Private Facebook group for connections, questions, and insights that may come in between sessions
- Access to recordings if you happen to miss a live call.
- Discount on any movement, motherhood, or Ayurvedic Wellness classes offered during the duration of MotherCircle.
- OPTIONAL: For women mothering a child born from another mother's womb, I'll be offering 2-3 additional classes (45-60 minutes each) based on interest. I've found that MotherCircle itself can hold so much for all us. and this is an added support to integrate any unique complexities that may have created confusion in your body or have not been welcomed, seen, or understood in other spaces. We hold the mystery and space of curiosity around separation and healing across motherlines. We'll be with anything that arises and with each other, tending to our bodies and stories in gentle ways that connect to the unique wisdom from this circle . I will try offer these at different times so you can make it to at least one.
Agreements to help us create this container...
This all contributes to the profound experience of this kind of gathering.
- This is best experienced live in circle together. Please plan to attend all 8 classes (or as many as possible). As we move through this arc, each week leads to the next and you will get to experience the full arc within a supportive community. Of course, life happens, so all classes are recorded. However, making this 8 week commitment is how you can get the most from this. Email Karla with any questions about this.
- Please plan to show up on time as we will begin promptly and open our circle together.
GENERAL NOTES:
- In the first circle (Mother Dive), we'll go over ways to uphold this sacred space for connection and transformation. Know that...
- We will create a clear container for integration and journey together. It is unique, powerful, and honoring of the full range of a mother's journey to and through motherhood.
- It is NOT as space for advice giving or where all of one's grievances land.
- It is NOT therapy, although it can feel therapeutic.
- It IS a space where we honor confidentiality. Please respect the privacy and sanctity of the circle. What you say and others share in the circle stays in the circle.
- This IS a space for learning, education, curiosity, reflection and honesty.
INFANTS/CHILDREN:
This is MotherCircle, and some who participate are mothers to very young infants and children.
We see you, and you are welcome to bring your child/ren to MotherCircle but please keep in mind that this might affect your ability to participate fully in certain activities of each session. If you are attending online, with older children in the room, please be advised that some topics of conversation might not be appropriate for all ears (class 6, MotherLover, for example, discusses our relationship to our sexuality in motherhood.) In general, please use your own best judgement for what you decide appropriate for your child/ren to hear.
Request to be notified of the next MotherCircle
OR inquire about hosting one or bringing to your home or a group of women you know.
The origin of MotherCircle...
This course was created by Kimberly Ann Johnson, author of The Fourth Trimester, and Jessica Connolly. Learn more about MotherCircle, including how to become a facilitator, These fierce and powerful women who care deeply and have impacted my life in profound ways through MotherCiircle and through their individual work in the world. |
Karla Johnston-Krase
I am a Certified MotherCircle facilitator and am honored to be able to bring my own voice and gifts to the course. More about me HERE. |
GATHER YOUR OWN MOTHERCIRCLE
If the dates don't work for you, gather your friends and schedule your own Circle with me. If you recruit 5+ friends and can agree on 8 dates that work us, you will receive a discounted (or possibly free) registration cost.
If you'd like to collaborate in bringing a community circle for mothers in your area, business, or organization, please reach out.
You can also search the directory of other certified MotherCircle Facilitators for an event closer to you or online.
Let’s work together to build mother culture and invite women to sit in circle together.
”It takes a village to raise a child,
and it takes a village to raise a mother."
--Kimberly Ann Johnson & Jessica Connolly, creators of MotherCircle
and it takes a village to raise a mother."
--Kimberly Ann Johnson & Jessica Connolly, creators of MotherCircle
Kind Words & Love Notes
This is a newer offering, but I've been circling with women and accompanying women for more than a decade in other ways.
Find out what others have to say about working with me and the offers I share HERE.
This is a newer offering, but I've been circling with women and accompanying women for more than a decade in other ways.
Find out what others have to say about working with me and the offers I share HERE.