What if play isn't something we outgrow? Join us for an evening of exploring the importance of play and the role it can have in connection, creativity, resilience, and emotional well-being. We’ll spend time learning together, playing together, and reflecting on what emerges when we engage our imagination, try something new, and have fun with one another. Come ready to be curious, make mistakes, laugh, and experience what can emerge when we play together.

Join us as we return to one of humanity’s oldest healing practices: sharing stories. In The Art of Story, listening becomes as transformative as telling, and speaking your truth becomes an act of courage and connection. Come to remember that our stories—shared bravely and held gently—help grow us all.

Somewhere along the way, your adult child developed different values, beliefs, or expectations, leaving you feeling emotionally distant despite your love for them. This gathering brings together parents of adult children facing similar challenges to explore what can change, find understanding, and realize they are not alone. Together, you'll explore practical ways to reconnect and build a new kind of relationship that honors both you and your child as you are. The conversation is facilitated by therapist Julie Kittredge who is both an adult child of a work-in-progress parent/adult relationship and has three young adult children of her own.

This evening is a training for therapists who are curious about group work and want an opportunity to learn more about what makes groups such a powerful and meaningful way of working.

The evening will include teaching, conversation, and space for reflection and questions, and an opportunity for continued connection afterward at a local establishment.

Our relationship with our bodies can be complex. We live within spaces and systems that often encourage disconnection from our bodies. Shame, control, objectification, trauma, and dehumanization, can impact the way we relate to our bodies and to the bodies of those around us. 

Come join us for an evening as we explore the messages we have learned about our bodies and how these messages affect us. An invitation to explore what a more curious and integrated way of living might look like, and how listening to our bodies can offer something of value to our healing and wholeness, both individually and collectively. 

Your body is always speaking to you through emotion and sensation. Sometimes these signals are subtle, and other times they can't be ignored. Join us for an evening to learn the language of your nervous system through this introduction to somatic healing, trauma processing, survival patterns, understanding triggers, and effective techniques to help you regulate or come out of a disconnected state.

This evening includes nervous system education, guided exercises, and a live demonstration of somatic work in real time. 

Come, join us as we deep dive into the well of motherhood grief and listen to our own insides and the echos of “me too” from those mothering around us. As women, we often learn to mask in order to belong. As mothers, we are told in unspoken ways to swing for this quintessential ideal of a mother- an archetype that often leaves us feeling burnt out, empty, confused and deeply alone. We want to tear our hair out as we ask out there, “which is it? martyrdom, career driven mom, as we teeter between too much and not enough, disappointing the empty facade of what a mother should be. We are left dried out, breaking, wondering I don’t even know who I am? So, during this hour we will touch our own story of mothering, excavate the grief that has likely gone untouched or unacknowledged and soak in the community of others saying “we feel this too”.

Join us as we return to one of humanity’s oldest healing practices: sharing stories. In The Art of Story, listening becomes as transformative as telling, and speaking your truth becomes an act of courage and connection. Come to remember that our stories—shared bravely and held gently—help grow us all.

We are living in a time of increasing fragmentation. Conversations feel charged. Difference can feel dangerous. Curiosity, once a bridge between us, can now feel like a risk.

What used to invite dialogue now evokes fear, defensiveness, or silence. Many of us sense it: something is tightening. We are being fed fear, through cultural systems, media cycles, and within our own nervous systems — and it is shaping how we see one another.

And yet, diversity has always been one of the most beautiful truths of being human. Our differences are not glitches in the design; they are the source of our creativity, adaptability, and collective becoming. When difference begins to feel like threat instead of possibility, something in us is protecting… and something in us is hurting. 

If you’ve been feeling the tension of this cultural moment — but haven’t quite known how to name it or where to bring it — this evening is for you.

The Legacy of Silence: Engaging the Father Wound is an evening of teaching, discussion, and reflection that explores the lasting emotional impact of growing up with an emotionally distant, unavailable, or inconsistent father. This experience offers language for patterns many people quietly live with—emotional numbness, self-reliance, and disconnection—without knowing where they began. Through a thoughtful and compassionate lens, this event helps normalize these experiences while pointing towards the hope of greater emotional vulnerability.

This conversation will invite participants to reflect on the process of healing and the many experiences we encounter on the journey toward wholeness. We will explore The Heart Series, a 12-part visual art collection created by artist and Art of Becoming Intern Counselor, Meagan Tarka, which will be displayed in the office throughout February. Meagan will open space for curiosity around creative expression as a healing practice—whether through something as simple as cooking a meal or as elaborate as painting a mural. Whether you consider yourself creative or not, all are welcome to come and discover how much creativity may be woven into your being, waiting to be discovered.

Join us as we return to one of humanity’s oldest healing practices: sharing stories. In The Art of Story, listening becomes as transformative as telling, and speaking your truth becomes an act of courage and connection. Come to remember that our stories—shared bravely and held gently—help grow us all.

Begin the new year rooted in presence, inner connection, and grounded possibility. Building an Inner Anchor offers a gentle introduction to meditation as a space to slow down, listen inwardly, and reconnect with the deeper layers of mind, heart, and spirit. We’ll explore how meditation softens reactive parts, widens your inner lens, and creates room for genuine calm and clarity. Through simple experiential practices, you’ll experience how inner connection can become a steady anchor for the year ahead. This isn’t about perfection—it’s about warmth, willingness, and showing up for yourself. No experience is needed. This experiencial evening will be facilitated by Constance Wilson.

In a time of year filled with brightness, celebration, and busyness, we gather to honor what is also true: that grief has a place here. Sorrow and love are woven together, and those carrying loss, whether personal or collective, deserve spaces of gentleness, belonging, and acknowledgment. This is a space for reflection, warmth, and community witness— where loss is seen, and grief is valued as an extension of our love. 

This conversation explores the often-unspoken pain of the mother wound—how unmet maternal needs, emotional neglect, or generational trauma can shape a woman’s sense of self, relationships, and worth. We'll create a safe, compassionate space to explore how these relational ruptures influence identity formation, emotional regulation, and interpersonal functioning in adulthood. If you've ever felt alone in this experience or unsure how to begin healing, you're not alone—this conversation will offer understanding and insights into the complexities of grief, boundary formation, and the path toward individuation and healing.

In this conversation, we will explore the common reasons people are walking away from the institution of the church (spiritual homes) and their teachings, but are still longing for places of connection and belonging that offers spiritual depth and meaning. Special focus will be given to the pain of spiritual homelessness, and the hope of new connection.

What if aging wasn’t something to hide or fix — but something to honor, explore, and live into with imagination and grace? Join us for a community gathering where we’ll speak openly about the things we’re not supposed to — grief without language, identities we’ve outgrown, bodies that are changing — and reimagine aging as a beautiful, brave becoming. Come reenvision the ways we grow through creativity and courage to keep becoming more authentically ourselves. 

Join The Art of Becoming Collective for our final summer gathering, where we’ll rediscover the joy that lives inside the parts of us that were once silenced, overlooked, or forgotten. Through intentional re-parenting, we’ll explore how to create new patterns of care, self-trust, and emotional safety—both for ourselves and with others.

Reclaim your playful spirit in this mid-summer gathering focused on reconnecting with the authentic, unfiltered self. Through the lens of imagination, we’ll explore how inner child work can help release shame, rebuild trust, and awaken joy.

We’ll explore what it means to re(member) ourselves—bringing back the pieces of who we are that may have been forgotten, hidden, or silenced. This session invites you to begin noticing how your past experiences shape present patterns, and how the inner child longs not just to be seen—but to belong.

Join us for a reading by Megan of her books,  When Dreams Collide & Dance to the Moon and reflect alongside her beautifully crafted characters (inspired by her own children!). As we face fears, walk tightropes between mountains, and imagine bold dreams, we’ll be reminded that courage grows best in the soil of a supportive community.

Join us for an hour of facilitated conversation about the ways food either exasperates mental health symptoms, low energy, inflammation, and brain fog or contributes to improving mood, energy, and mental clarity. As a Certified Integrative Mental Health Professional, Julie will facilitate a conversation about the undeniable connection between our gut health and brain health, practical tools to support improved symptoms, and personal antidotes from a 20-year curiosity about using Food as Medicine. Book recommendations and resources for personal application will be available.

Continue our series in the Art of Becoming and healing in community through the use of expressive arts. Julie Kittredge will invite you into a conversation about how expressive art and community are a natural way to engage the healing process together as we explore our individual understanding/experience of community with a small individual project and then bring our collective selves into a process of engaging beauty, nature, and healing together as we collaborate on something bigger than ourselves. Reflection and sharing of your experience will be optional but invited.

We all have a relationship with hope. It is a force that has the power to sustain us through the darkest of times, but it often comes at a significant cost to its beholder. This cost is too often overlooked, misunderstood, or altogether neglected for the sake of “keeping spirits alive” or “staying positive.” CJ Rithner invites us to sit with and in the pain of hope; to consider that the hope of becoming is an invitation to our grief, and our grief is the gateway to our personal and collective healing. 

Healing in Community- The essential “we” and function of curating community collaborative care to inspire healing within. Come explore how our collective believes that healing in community calls us to the essential work of the 'we'. We cannot be spiritually, psychologically, or emotionally whole until all are well, for true wellness honors the inherent value of each person in our shared humanity. We are interconnected and healing is therefore a shared, collaborative journey that invites us to look within.