What we’re about
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Join thousands of women around the world gathering in circles around the time of the new moon and the full moon.
Every month thousands of women in 100+ countries gather in Sister Circles to connect, grow, empower one another, and catalyze the transformation and progress of our world.
Imagine the power of women all over the world gathering in circles, sharing our hearts and unifying our intentions so that we can navigate our lives with greater clarity and power. And, with the guide of transformational themes and unifying meditations, we expand and uplift ourselves and our global community.
Inspired by the Global Sisterhood's call for women to organize Sister Circles, the Raleigh Sister Circle began on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2016 along with 650 women’s circles sprinkled around the globe. Since then over 15,000 women circles in over 100 countries have gathered on every new moon to plant seeds of intention around a unifying theme of transformation. These circles cultivate deep bonds of sacred sisterhood and elevate the ways we relate to feminine power, ourselves, and each other.
Raleigh Sister Circle
The Raleigh Sister Circle participates in the Global Sisterhood's monthly meetings and meditations on or about the New Moon. In 2022, we also added a monthly Full Moon circle.
Each New Moon Sister Circle includes:
· The Global Sisterhood’s Unifying Heart meditation – participated in by thousands of women around the world;
· A theme for discussion and sharing;
· An opportunity to reflect and set new intentions.
Full Moon Circles are an opportunity to release energy, beliefs, and ways of being that no longer serve us.
Our group celebrates diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and honors our interdependent existence. Together we transform and empower in a sacred space of mutual respect and clear focus.
What is a Sister Circle?
A Sister Circle is a virtual or in-person women-only space. It’s a safe and sacred place where we share our journeys, insights, and stories, and are all seen and heard for who we truly are. Each Sister Circle is a unique experience influenced by the facilitator, the women participating, the location, and cultural traditions.
When we come together in equality and acceptance, we allow magic to take place. When we are seen, heard, and held we can transform our insecurities, wounds, jealousies, competitive patterns, and claim our true radiance, unity, and power.
To host or participate in a sister circle nourishes the natural yearning for authentic connection and creates opportunities for deep friendships to be cultivated.
WOMEN GATHERING TOGETHER IN CIRCLES IS THE FORCE THAT WILL HEAL OUR WORLD.
Magic happens when women gather in circles to share what’s really going on inside their hearts. When a woman is given an invitation to open up, dig deep, and share her truth with a group of women, she taps into a wellspring of wisdom inside herself. Her heart becomes lighter and fuller at the same time.
Within the heart of every sister is the power to transform and heal our world. So just imagine what happens when thousands of women’s circles gather with unified intentions around a transformational theme and the energy of the new moon…
Will you join us?
Everything you’ve been through has shaped you into the woman you are, and now you are ready to step into the next dimension of yourself… your love, your wisdom, your power, and your purpose.
Will you join us? If you do, know that your presence is appreciated and welcome here.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Grateful GatheringSouly Holistic, Raleigh, NC
(Feel free to bring your lunch. You are also welcome to leave early if you need to get back to work.)
May Theme: Tending Seeds
From Grateful Living...
If life is a gift, then seeds are the gift bearer. In all of their manifestations, seeds are gateways to abundance and belonging. When we hold, tend, and share them with reverence, as offerings for the world, we contribute to the cycles of renewal that make individuals and communities resilient. As they embody emergence, seeds invite us to cultivate generative capacities: intention, trust, and vulnerability. They invite us to value process – the act of cultivation – as much as intended outcome (recognizing that we do not have control over the outcome and that, in any case, the “outcome” is part of an ongoing process when placed in the context of a cycle).Resources
Readings
From Dirt - the “legacy and journey, triumph and trauma, of seeds” as she prepares her garden for planting. (https://emergencemagazine.org/story/from-dirt/)
7 Seeds to Start Your Day (2:30): (https://orionmagazine.org/article/7-seeds-to-start-your-day/)
Springtime - consider the excitement and potential of springtime – with all its seeding and budding – in this lyrical essay. (https://gratefulness.org/blog/springtime/)Video
Reap What You Sow - Meaningful wisdom for life surfaces through reflections on the act of planting literal seeds. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsWhRCIvQiw)
Planting Seeds: A Song to Live By - captures the spirit of doing our part (planting seeds) then letting go, surrendering to what may come. (https://gratefulness.org/resource/planting-seeds-a-song-to-live-by-empty-hands-music/)
Indigenous Seed Keepers Network – lifts up the importance of seeds in the context of thriving Indigenous food systems. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IooHPLjXi2g&feature=youtu.be)Poem
How It Might Continue by Rosemerry (https://gratefulness.org/resource/faith-poem-mother-hope/)Practice
Seed of Possibility Meditation and Reflection: Imagine planting a seed of possibility born from gratefulness. (https://gratefulness.org/resource/seed-of-possibility-meditation-and-reflection/)Questions for Reflection and Discussion
o How does it feel when you tend seeds of possibility in your life?
o What seeds are nurtured by your grateful heart? How are seeds both a reflection and an extension of your gratitude, of your values, of the visions you have for your life and the world?
o What seeds are you tending in your life right now? What seeds might you be holding on to that would benefit from planting?
o What supports you in cultivating the seeds that would enliven your life and the world? What opportunities might you have to “clear weeds” – notice and release habits and/or ways of being and seeing – that will open up space to allow our seeds to take root and grow?
o How do seeds make you feel connected to all that lives and breathes? How might the possibilities you’re tending interweave with all that is?
o What feels possible when you embrace the seeds you’re gifted with in life as sacred offerings?Grateful Gatherings is a group in which we share our love and passion for gratitude. If you know the power of gratitude – or you want to know it – and you want to talk about it, learn about it, and grow with other like-minded gratitude folks…then this is the place for you.
Gratitude changes everything, and so does the power of collective intention. Each month, the Grateful Gatherings around the world explore and expand around a common gratitude related theme provided by Grateful Living. Don’t you just love when our Inner Work makes the world a better place too?!
Join us monthly as we connect and grow in gratitude!
This event is free.
Facilitated by Karin Cross.
