How the group functions
Hope Circle
No one heals alone. Hope is stronger when shared.
A circle is small on purpose: a few people, meeting and keeping on meeting, where stories are shared, burdens are lifted and nobody is asked to be further along than they are.
Hope Circle is how SheHOPE, the grief support group, meets. The Codex of Hope is the tool it uses.
Please read. A circle is company, not treatment. It is not therapy, counselling, medical care or an emergency service. If you are in danger or in crisis, contact your local emergency number or a crisis line in your country now.
Where it comes from
The Sign that named it
I saw a circle of people gathered together: hearts open, stories shared, burdens lifted, and hope being restored. Around the circle was a gentle light, and in the center was a fire that never went out. I heard, “No one heals alone.” This was a place of safety, understanding, and unconditional love, a circle where hope lives and grows.
“Let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.” Hebrews 10:24
Hope is a universal source
Dormant until touched. Activated by connection. Alive in every language.
You are seen. You are heard. You are hope.
Different languages. One heart. One light. One hope. One humanity, one hope.
The circle has a song of its own: Hope Circle, thirty canvases and thirty stories.
How a circle works
Small, steady, kept
Small on purpose
Few enough that everyone speaks and nobody performs.
The same people
A circle is not a drop-in. Trust is built by returning.
Listening without fixing
Advice is offered only when it is asked for.
What is said stays
Nothing shared in a circle is repeated outside it, or published anywhere.
Led by a facilitator
Someone holds the time and the boundaries, so the group does not have to.
If you join
What it asks of you
You tell the curator you would like a circle, and you are told when one begins. From then on it is the five above: a small group, the same people returning, listening without fixing, and nothing said in it repeated outside it.
The curator tends the ecosystem and decides what belongs in which room. A facilitator holds a circle's time, its listening and its boundaries. They are not the same work.
Joining
Circles are being formed now
There is no circle open for enrolment yet. Tell the curator you would like one, and where in the world you are, and you will be told when one begins.
Ask about a circle