The Gathering Circle
Spaces for grief, reflection, storytelling, and shared presence.
In a world that often avoids grief, uncertainty, and hard conversations, The Gathering Circles create space to sit together inside the unknown. These circles invite people to bring what they carry — grief, questions, memories, or simply a desire to sit beside others — without needing to have it all figured out.
Some gatherings are quiet, some are practical, some are reflective — all are held gently, with care and dignity for where each person is.
We gather in different ways:
Around fires
In seasonal circles
Through book discussions
In guided conversations around thresholds, loss, and change
You do not have to carry it all alone. These circles are places to come as you are.
How It Works
We Gather
Small groups come together in person, guided by season, need, or topic.
We Listen
Each circle is gently held, allowing space for stories, questions, reflection, or quiet presence.
We Share
Some gatherings include guided prompts, some include shared ritual or simple ceremony, some are simply places to sit together.
We Return
These circles hold space for what’s needed in the moment, but also honour that grief and reflection often unfold over time.
Upcoming Gathering Circles
There are some conversations best held beside a fire.
Some questions live more easily in the body than in the mind.
Some stories only rise when the land is quiet enough to hear them.
This series is for those sitting with grief, ancestry, disconnection, or the longing to live in deeper relationship, with land, with history, with each other.
We’ll move through Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec, not just reading, but practicing. Not just thinking, but listening. Each month, we’ll gather in a different part of Huron County and let the season guide us. Through traditional skills, reflection, shared food, and firelight, we’ll explore what it means to repair relationship, within and beyond ourselves.
As the light shifts and the weather turns, we’ll shift too, adjusting our rhythms and following the season toward something quieter, closer, more rooted.
You don’t need to be a fast reader or a seasoned crafter. You don’t need to have the right words. Just come as you are, curious, open, and ready to sit with what’s real.
A Tending Thresholds offering
Four Thursday evenings: July 31, August 21, September 18, October 16
Huron County-based (locations vary)
Sliding scale: $220–$320 for the full series
Optional book add-on: $25
Payment plans available.
New circles are being planned now.
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”
— Mother Theresa