Name: Compassionate Witnessing- Community for Healing & Presence
Start: 2025-11-06T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-06T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Eden House

**North Star Studios invites you into “Compassionate Witnessing”. A trauma-informed, monthly circle for compassion, connection & emotional regulation - Rooted in ancient knowing: that grief must be witnessed in community to be transformed.**

Follow the link for ground rules and sign up-
[SIGN UP HERE!](northstarstudios.earth/events/compassionate-witnessing)

**About the Event:**
This monthly healing container is for those of us who wish to come together within a conscious community rooted in unconditional love, to witness and be witnessed. All benevolent beings welcome.

**What to expect:**

* A ceremonial opening and closing of our healing container
* Brief guided meditations based on group needs
* An energetically safe, non-judgmental community circle for sharing and connection
* Group sharing (or silence)
* Listening with presence and open hearts
* A trauma informed space where silence is welcome, tears are welcome and all forms of grief are honored.
* Tea, water and light snacks
* Vulnerability and healing is to be treated with reverence. We ask each attendee to arrive sober. Alcohol and “drugs” are not permitted at this gathering.

**What to bring:**

* An open heart
* A journal or notebook (optional)
* A small object for the communal altar (optional but encouraged, we do not keep the object)

**Schedule:**

* Arrival + tea/snacks + payment
* Opening circle

* A short nervous system regulation, breath work practice led by Shamanic Reiki practitioner Alexandra Stark
* Group sharing (or silence)
* Closing Circle
* A short guided meditation (optional)

**Trauma-Informed Ground Rules**

* Speak from your own experience - no advice or fixing
* Listen without comparing. Interruption and or cross-talking is strictly prohibited
* Confidentiality is sacred - what is shared here, stays here. We ask for no photos or video
* Silence is participation, sharing is optional
* Appropriate movement, stillness, tears or stepping outside are all welcome
* Use I statements; honor all forms of grief
* No unsolicited touching of any attendee, if you want to give someone a hug, you must ask for permission.
* Boundaries are your birthright, you are free to exercise them here
* We are all intuitively connected and we ask for No spiritual interpretation of someone else’s share
* Honor the time limit on your share, so each voice has space
* We ask for no political topics of discussion

Follow the link for ground rules and sign up!
[SIGN UP HERE!](northstarstudios.earth/events/compassionate-witnessing)

"In our modern world of hustling, emotional disconnection, chronic busyness and stress it is almost too easy to find ourselves feeling utterly alone at the end of our productive days - Yearning for empathy, to be heard or held. To be able to really express what is going on inside and receive compassion and connection in return. As we walk this life, through our good days, our tough days, through the inevitable grief we feel as we grow and leave old patterns and relationships behind, it is essential to share our stories and experiences with others. Being seen and heard in our pain transforms grief from something we carry in silence, into something shared, honored and validated. We are all worthy of care and we can reclaim our right to mourn together.

Grief is probably one of the most present emotions in our daily lives, its the sister of love and lives in our hearts. We experience grief in many forms and sometimes we don’t even recognize that’s what were actually feeling. Wether we are feeling the weight of loss of a love one, heartbreak, state of the world or are grieving self abandonment or things we may not have received from a parent - we can relate to each other through listening and compassion, remembering that we are all connected on a deeper level and don’t have to do this alone."
\- Alexandra Stark

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