Belonging is not an external place into which you seek admission,
but the feeling that results from an internal set of disciplines and skills that can be cultivated.
WHAT IS A
DREAM CIRCLE?
Dream circles are communities of practice, shared council and wisdom. Each encounter is comprised of a process/action to embody, inquire or inspire, dyadic and small group inquiry and circle wide sharing. In circle we practice deep listening and witness as well as have the experience of being received and held and in doing so co-create a vessel for our stories, grief and profound love for the world. We sing, give testimony, and share in the transformation of solitary struggle into the shared work of the village. We honor the seasons, give space to think deeply about shared environmental and social concerns, as well as work together to resolve trauma and come into deeper aliveness and alignment with our own truth.
By committing to one another for deeper periods, we come to discover the imperfect beauty and resilience of an egalitarian space crafted over time which has worked through the surface to delve into the rich space of relational spirituality. Dream Circles are inspired by traditional practices from global indigenous communities, land-based cultures, as well as the work of deep-ecologist Joanna Macy, Poet and Psychotherapist Francis Weller and others.
Join circle tender Luisa and the Dream community for seedbed circle this winter.
Seedbed is designed to exist in the heart of winter, when our dreams are deepest and where our grief and pleasure also live side by side in the seedbed. A micro-community of care and creativity, we will meet for four weeks.
Ideal for those interested in circle facilitator training, or curious about what we do in our longer circle spaces. A space for creative praxis, community healing and peer support.
$108
Monthly in person circle of council, practice for new and seasoned members of the community. Emboddied, relational, seeed planting, collective librative stategies, creative praxis, contemplation, co-awakening, A congregation from the cracks.
$40
In person at Neuhouse
110 E 25th St, New York, NY 10010
Ouroboros is a diverse and supportive community that comes together weekly to nourish and enjoy the relational, contemplative, and creative practice of mutual council, peer support, and witness. We generate an intention to awaken and heal ourselves so that we may extend this enlivened presence into our lives. This circle is gender inclusive and has members spanning five decades of life. Expect laughter, tears, silence, and practices to strengthen your ability to listen and be supported and present for what matters most in life. Entering its fourth year, new members are accepted based on the availability of space and alignment with the norms and values of existing members.
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Sept 9, 16, 23, 30
Oct 7, 21, 28
Nov 4, 18, 25
Dec 2, 9
Feb 3, 10, 24
March 3, 10, 17
Apr 21, 28
May 5, 12(make up circle date May 19th if needed)
PRICING
$95
sustaining
$70
surviving
$105
thriving
$135
supporting
(per session)
The 22 sessions of Ouroboros are paid for monthly as a non-refundable $500 deposit taken from the total and divided into 8 monthly installments.
In considering which tier of payment you might require, should you choose to join circle, we ask you to consider:
• past/current financial positionality- historical disparity across race, national history, class, etc.
• current financial situation
• your potential to make money based on your level of education, positionality, and potential future opportunities
Check out The Sliding Scale: A Tool of Economic Justice from wortsandcunning.com
“In the midst of the my multi-hustle life, circling is an amazing oasis and celebration of ground, of shared humanity, of kindness, of love of seeing and being seen. I am forever grateful to Luisa for her brilliance and to the special people of Ouroborous for their courage, their truth, their sweet and perceptive reflections. Circle work has for me been both the root and the bud of continued growth.” - Circle Member
“Ouroboros is a community of wisdom and truth seekers whose togetherness empowers each of us to explore the fullness of ourselves and be vulnerable with our wounds, our strength, and allows our wisdom and maturity to be nourished. As a cis man, my example of circles was only hearing about women's circles and having the notion that they were something segregated in nature. Either exclusive to either feminine or masculine stuck focusing on topics perpetuating gender norms and heteronormativity. I was not looking for that sort of association or participate in a binary process. Ouroboros is an inclusive space where we all come together and lean into tenderness and connection with mutuality, love, and respect.” - Circle Member
DREAM CIRCLE AGREEMENTS
Show Up for Yourself and Others with Kindness
Move at the Speed of Trust
Confidentiality and Containment
Bring it to the Circle
Sovereignty and Interbeingness
WHAT TO
EXPECT
These 2 hour weekly gatherings will feature embodied practices, contemplative practices and a deeply held sharing circle to support the empowerment, and health of our members. Circles are deeper opportunities to do personal work in the accelerated space of group consciousness. Our grief, joy, strengths and vulnerabilities are all gifts to the collective and we have the opportunity to see ourselves reflected and to be expanded by the presence of community.
The power and potential for healing in a group far exceeds the potency of individual one-on-one therapy. As humans we long for the opportunity to be received, witnessed and known, we simultaneously also long to contribute our gifts and wisdom to the community. In our Dream circles we build a vessel strong enough to hold our collective and individual grief, beauty and evolution. Our circles call for a powerful commitment to develop our abilities to listen deeply and to hold, to reflect and tend as well as to share emerging insight and revelation. Over the course of a cycle we explore practices to deepen our contact with soul and what soul is longing to express and bring into the world.
Circles are between 6 - 15 people at facilitator’s discretion
A Prayer
To join a circle you will be guided to complete our intake form. This application is the first step in our process of getting to know each other and ensure that everyone ends up in the most nourishing place possible.
Luisa Giugliano
MFA, IYAT
Luisa Giugliano, IAYT, MFA, is a mother, poet and circle tender who has been committed to seeding and nurturing liberative spaces for co-awakening for two decades. Her work as a yoga therapist weaves creative, contemplative and somatic practices to support the tending of grief, and to reclaim and center the sacred. Luisa works with individuals, couples, families and collectives. As a facilitator, Luisa is known to invite transformative group processes that develop village mindedness as well as personal sovereignty. Luisa is the founder of Dream Hive, a Center for Circles and holds an MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. She is faculty at Sacred Yoga Therapy School and currently pursuing her Masters of Divinity from the Thich Nhat Hanh School of Socially Engaged Buddhism at Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University. She is a multi-lineage participant in both Buddhist and Quaker spaces. Her current writing projects are both scholarly and poetic and explore kinship, belonging, ecology and theology.