Hearth Circles
Facilitated small-group gatherings for conversation, reflection, relationship and meaningful connection.
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The Hearth
A living school of womanhood.
A place for women to gather, learn, remember, question, create, receive, contribute and belong.
Something happens when women gather.
Throughout human history, fire has been a centre of nourishment, making, storytelling, relationship and ceremony.
The Hearth is creating a contemporary gathering place for women around the world. Not a return to the past. A remembering of what becomes possible when wisdom can once again move between women.
More than a membership
A living school of womanhood.
A place where women can learn and question.
Receive and contribute.
Be witnessed and challenged.
Develop skills and deepen wisdom.
Sit with elders and listen to younger voices.
Encounter different teachers, disciplines and ways of knowing without being required to surrender their own.
A woman may arrive needing the circle and, with time, become one of the women capable of holding it.
To tend the hearth is to come home to relationship — with self, spirit and other.
Self
Mind. Body. Voice. Intuition. Creativity. Self-trust.
Other
Friendship. Partnership. Motherhood. Community. Relationship.
Spirit
Meaning. Mystery. Consciousness. Nature. What is greater than us.
Wisdom moves around the circle.
The Hearth is not a conventional classroom rearranged into a circle of chairs.
Here, wisdom moves.
We honour formal education and lived experience. Teachers and students. Elders and younger voices. Science and spirituality. The body and the intellect.
Sometimes we come to receive. Sometimes we come to contribute. Sometimes we need guidance. Sometimes we simply need to be witnessed.
No one person possesses everything the circle needs.
Ways to Gather
Come as you are. Stay as long as you need.
Hearth Library
An evolving collection of conversations, teachings and resources from women — and selected teachers — from many disciplines and lived experiences.
Explore the LibraryHearth Community
An online gathering place for conversation, connection, shared interests and relationships between formal gatherings.
Enter the CommunityCourses & Journeys
Longer learning experiences, workshops and developmental pathways led by teachers and facilitators within The Hearth.
Explore CoursesWomen are here for more than healing.
We are here to live.
To create.
To love.
To lead.
To mother.
To build.
To make art.
To make money.
To develop skills.
To deepen friendship.
To experience pleasure.
To explore.
To contribute.
To become wiser.
To laugh until we cannot breathe.
To sit around fires.
To make beautiful things.
To discover what brings us alive.
Growth is not only about releasing what hurts. It is also about increasing our capacity for joy, receiving, intimacy, creativity, leadership, self-expression and life itself.
Our Principles
Every woman belongs to herself.
Belonging should never require self-abandonment.
Wisdom moves around the circle.
We meet the human before we try to change her.
Relationship matters.
Women are here for more than healing.
What we receive, we eventually carry forward.
Receive what you need. Offer what you carry.
Women come to The Hearth through different doorways and at different stages of life.
Sometimes we need to be held by the circle. Sometimes we bring wisdom to it. And sometimes, over time, we become part of what holds the community for the women coming after us.
This is not a hierarchy. It is reciprocity.
Come as you are.
Belong without abandoning yourself.
Receive what you need.
Offer what you carry.
And when the time comes, help tend the fire for the women who arrive after you.
There is room for you at the fire.
The Hearth is preparing to open its doors. Join us as we build a living community of women learning, gathering, creating and tending something together.