Circle wisdom can support us through all of life's thresholds.
MotherCircle is an 8-class journey that helps you discover your center (again), integrate your experiences, and move out of overwhelm toward clarity and confidence.
We create time and space to explore and metabolize the unnamed parts of a mother’s journey—the physical, emotional, spiritual, sexual, archetypal, ancestral and more.
These gatherings can serve as an anchor, so you can uncover the unseen arc of your personal motherhood journey and knit the pieces together within a supportive community of wise and attuned women.
MotherCircle is an 8-class journey that helps you discover your center (again), integrate your experiences, and move out of overwhelm toward clarity and confidence.
We create time and space to explore and metabolize the unnamed parts of a mother’s journey—the physical, emotional, spiritual, sexual, archetypal, ancestral and more.
These gatherings can serve as an anchor, so you can uncover the unseen arc of your personal motherhood journey and knit the pieces together within a supportive community of wise and attuned women.
All mothers are welcome to take a seat in the circle.
New mothers, mid-life mothers, grandmothers, mothers to be, mothers who have experienced loss and women holding space for mothers. The circle supports all stages and seasons . It honors that there are many ways we come to motherhood including birth, adoption, foster, kinship, blended, and more.
The circle holds medicine itself for those who come.
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Next Live Virtual Circle Begins in May
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 into motherhood. When left unseen and untouched, they can resurface as we meet other thresholds in motherhood and life. 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.
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 into motherhood. When left unseen and untouched, they can resurface as we meet other thresholds in motherhood and life. 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.
Here's how we flow through the weeks...
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MotherDive: Entering motherhood is often an underworld journey, often not seen and recognized by the outer world. Learn the arc of this journey, be present to it and witnessed as you locate yourself within it, no matter what stage or season you're in. Understanding this dive will support you through all thresholds you cross.
MotherCycle: 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. MotherBody: 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 or in life.
MotherJaguar: 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 and relationships. Access the full spectrum of your nervous system. MotherBirth: Birth is an initiatory experience that fundamentally changes us. No matter how a woman grows her family or comes to motherhood, 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 MotherLover: 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. MotherWorth: 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. MotherCode: 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. |
Why MotherCircle and my own experience
Wisdom from the creators of MotherCircle, Kimberly Ann Johnson & Jessica Connolly:
"We think we are mothering our children; often we are re-mothering ourselves.
Our children reflect our nervous systems, and we’re not sure where we end and they begin.
We are living at a time of renegotiation and re-labeling. New archetypes are emerging. What is required of us as women and what we require of ourselves is totally NEW. Women are finally getting honest about motherhood. There’s space in the culture for this formerly invisible experience. Our safety no longer depends on our perfection and our role-play. At this time, we can define and redefine motherhood on our own terms…and that comes with its own challenges."
Our children reflect our nervous systems, and we’re not sure where we end and they begin.
We are living at a time of renegotiation and re-labeling. New archetypes are emerging. What is required of us as women and what we require of ourselves is totally NEW. Women are finally getting honest about motherhood. There’s space in the culture for this formerly invisible experience. Our safety no longer depends on our perfection and our role-play. At this time, we can define and redefine motherhood on our own terms…and that comes with its own challenges."
When mothers thrive, communities thrive.
I wonder what we'll create in this MotherCircle together?
Come explore with us!
I wonder what we'll create in this MotherCircle together?
Come explore with us!
Class Details for the Online Circle...
- 8 - 60-75 minute live virtual session
- Access to recordings if you happen to miss a live call. We encourage live and life happens.
- Time for yourself with an inspiring group of women.
- Private breakout rooms (not recorded)
- PDF materials to support reflection and journaling.
- Discount on any movement, motherhood, or Ayurvedic Wellness or somatic healing classes offered during the duration of MotherCircle.
- Additional somatic breath/movement class to help us move with the stories and reflections. Date tbd.
- OPTIONAL: For women mothering a child born from another mother's womb, I co-host circles with my friend and colleague, Michelle Kenefick, for women mothering through adoption. I've found that MotherCircle itself can hold so much for all us. yet when we ran our first circle together, we realized the profound healing and connection that came from offering a space to integrate the unique complexities that thread through our experiences. We hold the mystery and lead with curiosity around separation and healing across motherlines. Our next circle will be in September. If you want to join both, you're welcome and you'll receive half off of the fall circle. I'll be available for you to reach out to during the sessions.
INVESTMENT: $325 for the 8 Sessions
PAYMENT PLANS ARE AVAILABLE. Reach out.
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.
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 to others through online circles.
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
What to expect in our space...
- A container that holds you/us
- Full and small group sharing
- Compassionate witnessing without judgement
- Wisdom from wise and attuned women
- Breath practices designed to regulate the nervous system
- An understanding of how your nervous system responses impact your mothering and how to make use of it in a constructive way.
What you won't find here...
- Advice giving or coaching
- therapy (although it can feel so therapeutic)
- venting or complaining
- long detailed sharing of stories
- open-ended sharing and ramblings
- that you have to look or feel like you have it all together.
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.. I've been mothering for nearly 21 years through birth and adoption. Find out more about Mother Circles around the globe HERE |
Can't make this circle? Help co-create a MotherCircle.
If the dates don't work for you, or you'd like a local circle in the Triangle are of NC, you can gather your friends and schedule your own Circle with me. We can connect on location and dates and you'll receive a discount (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 HERE for other certified Facilitators or 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
