Messy Hearts Circle

Messy Hearts Circle is a small, secular, facilitated space for people of all backgrounds who want a safe, non-judgmental room to reflect, share, and listen deeply.

This is not therapy, coaching, or a support group focused on fixing or advice. There is no diagnosing, no pressure to perform, and no expectation to have answers. Instead, we offer structure, care, and shared reflection.

What Happens in a Circle:

Each gathering is gently facilitated and held within clear agreements around confidentiality, consent, and respect.

We use guided prompts and simple connection exercises to support deeper reflection and listening, without interruption or comparison. Speaking is always optional. Silence is welcome.

The structure is intentional. It lowers social pressure and makes it easier to show up as you are.

Who This Is For:

For people carrying a lot on the inside, and wanting a place where that can land.
If you’ve felt emotionally alone, between worlds, or unsure where you fit, this space may meet you gently.

This space is welcoming to immigrants and diasporic people from anywhere, across generations, whether you’re 1st generation or 10th. Especially resonant for MENA and SWANA diaspora, shaped by cultural nuance, migration, family expectations, and lives lived between worlds.

We gather on Indigenous lands, and we acknowledge the ongoing displacement, erasure, and harm Indigenous peoples continue to endure on their own land. Indigenous participants are welcome here.

What This Is:

• A structured, confidential space for shared reflection and connection
• Gently facilitated, with clear agreements that prioritize emotional safety
• Rooted in diasporic nuance, cultural awareness, and lived experience
• It is secular, queer-welcoming, feminist, and anti-racist space. It is open to anyone who resonates with its values.

What It Isn’t:

• Not therapy
• Not life coaching
• No fixing, diagnosing, or advice-giving
• Not an open discussion or free-flowing conversation
• Not an identity-restricted space. Anyone who resonates with its themes and values is welcome.

People leave not with answers, but with something steadier: a sense of being less alone, more understood, and kinder toward themselves.

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