NEW MotherCircle
facilitated by
Sarah Clark
BEGINS 9.25.23
MotherCircle is an 8 week journey.
It offers women in all seasons of life an opportunity to mine the profound wisdom that can emerge through motherhood.
It returns us to an age old practice: women, sitting in circle, with intention, growing together through support, honesty & courage.
LOGISTICS
Dates, Times & Location
Dates:
8 Consecutive Mondays
Sept 25 - Nov 13
Time:
Mondays, Noon-1:30pm
Location:
the zen cave,
**location change as of 9.10!
Address & Map:
2985 Beech St
San Diego, CA 92102
https://goo.gl/maps/GcExAfvcdyJM3ZZ89
Plenty of Free Street Parking
in surrounding neighborhood.
For Whom?
MotherCircle is FOR:
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Women who are in the thick of motherhood.
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Pregnant women, or women who want to become mothers.
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Mothers with grown or adult children; Elder mothers.
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Women who've miscarried or experienced the death of a child.
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People who work with mothers professionally.
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People who want to better understand & support motherhood.
Exchange
Financial Exchange:
In congruity with Sarah's other public offerings, MotherCircle is offered on a dana system:
by donation,
as a practice of consciously giving & receiving.
Folks are encouraged to offer generously, but also without strain or regret.
Suggested scale: $175-300
for the 8 week course.
Agreements
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Please plan to attend all 8 gatherings, as experiencing the full arc is beneficial for all. Questions about this? Email Sarah.
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This circle is a child-free space. Please ask for support so you can experience this circle beyond just the identity of a caretaker. Need help thinking creatively about this? Reach out to Sarah.
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Please arrive 10-15 minutes before the circle begins so you can get settled into the space.
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Do plan to allow time to find parking. Free Parking is often available just a few blocks south, along the edge of Balboa Park.
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We will end promptly by 1:30.
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More detailed agreements will be offered in the first circle, MotherDive, and throughout our process, as a way to uphold a clear container.
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MotherCircle IS a space for learning, curiosity and honesty; it IS NOT therapy, in the formal sense; a space of advice giving; a place to only dump all of one's grievances.
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The 8 Gatherings:
Explore details about each of the 8 gatherings when we come together and sit in circle.
As a collection, they create an arc, inviting the group of women to go on a deep dive, and then to resurface, together.
1: MotherDive
2: MotherCycle
3: MotherBody
4: MotherJaguar
5: MotherBirth
6: MotherLover
7: MotherWorth
8: MotherCode
Ready to Enroll?
Please complete this registration form in order to secure your place in the circle.
Space is limited.
Origin Story
Sarah has always been achingly curious about how her contemplative practices intersect with the demands of a lay person's most intimate relationships.
She is endlessly interested in how the long term, committed relationships that we might have with a spouse or a child demand that these wisdom practices penetrate the earnest, loyal and grueling work of the heartmind that comes with sustaining & deepening these most precious relationships.
Enter MotherCircle. When Sarah experienced this circle, led by other rad women in her community that she respects and values, she knew she wanted to be a part of sharing this way of being with other women, gathering to mine clarity & wisdom together.
"Surveying both myself and the collective landscape of women, I have come to recognize missing pieces in the quilt, holes in the fabric of the experience that is contemporary motherhood— full of ancient instincts and whispering embodied knowings— that are often juxtaposed by modern structures and mores that overflow with sweeping momentums that take the shape of separateness, confusion and sheer speed.
MotherCircle is a step towards the repair that comes through a reclamation of communal practices and rituals, the clarity that comes from learning from and amongst other wise women, and an opportunity to occupy space as a mother that is genuinely honest and unhurried.
It celebrates intergenerational sisterhood, discernment, autonomy and the immeasurable fruits that come from a Mother who knows who she is and what she values with unflinching courage."
-- Sarah Clark