What we’re about
(For the convenience of our members, we also post on this Meetup other upcoming events that may not be just for women.)
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.
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(Feel free to bring your lunch. You are also welcome to leave early if you need to get back to work.)
June Theme: Loving the World
Summary from Network for Grateful Living:
The final principle of grateful living, as articulated by Kristi Nelson in Wake Up Grateful, centers the work of the heart: “Love is transformative. When you embrace the great fullness of life, your heart overflows.” The affirmation offers us a key for embracing the world when love feels insufficient, when we can’t help but ask, how does one love a world that seems bent against love? The incredulity of this question, however justified, reveals the belief that the only world one could possibly love is a different world…a better world…even a perfect world.
In embracing the great fullness of life, we allow ourselves to be with the wholeness of what is – with all its brokenness. Even as we strive to eradicate unnecessary suffering, love asks that we presence ourselves with all of what is here now, including the pain, the anger, and the grief. The presencing is the work; the presencing is the love that is the transformation. This, perhaps, is a version of the love that precedes the action of “love in action.”
Just as truly loving ourselves and one another asks that we make ourselves vulnerable to imperfection, to difficulty, and to heartbreak, so too does the task of loving the world. When our hearts soften, how are we better able to show up for ourselves and each other? How might opening our hearts to the world embolden our care for it? What might happen if everything we do — if the seeds we plant, the communities we tend, the stands we take — were sourced from hearts that seek to love the fullness of what is here, now?
Questions for Reflection:- When you experience a sense of love for the world, what does it feel like? How does that love take shape?
- What are some of the ways in which you might (already and/or in the future) express your love?
- How might opening your heart to the world embolden your care for it?
- What supports you to love the world, exactly as it is now? What perspectives and practices help you love wholeheartedly?
- What might you let go of in order to love more fully?
- What might happen if everything we do — if the seeds we plant, the communities we tend, the stands we take — were sourced from hearts that seek to love the fullness of what is here, now?
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.
