There are a number of opportunities to come together and share your journey of unfolding, transformation, integration, mastery and creative expression with others on a path.  There are a number of groups now available, both for open attendance and closed groups now enrolling.  There are also a number of group opportunities coming soon on the horizon. I invite you to explore and inquire to find the group experience that is right for you.

There are a number of benefits to coming together in groups.

• Listening to the stories of others often brings insight to our own experiences
• An opportunity to have your story and experience serve someone else's journey
• The Soul's Journey is one worth sharing and a wonderful opportunity for building a unique  experience of community in a focused, intentful and intimate environment
• Feeling the support and connection with other's who share common values, goals & a similar language
• A great way to get the benefits of Balance Point offerings at a lower cost

Closed Circles-Group size is limited and requires both registration & commitment for participation, dates and times will be determined according to participant preference. All group offerings are available as individual services as well.  Groups will commence when the minimum 3 participants register.  Discounts are available for participants who choose to participate in more than one group.

All groups have three package options (unless otherwise listed):

Basic Level:  2/mo, 1 hour 45 minute sessions, $140/mo

Premium Level: 3/mo, 1 hour 45 minute sessions, $210/mo

Intensive Level: 4/mo, 1 hour 45 minute sessions, $280/mo

Unless otherwise posted, meeting times will be determined by the schedules of the participants.

Intuitive & Empathic Development Coaching Groups

Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by the energies of life? Have you always felt there is something different about you, something big or intense? Do you experience life from a deeply feeling place? Are you intrested in learning how to stay grounded and centered in your emotions and energies at all times? Would you like to be able to tap into intuitive information on demand to help guide you in your life or to offer in service to others? IED Coaching Groups are an opportunity to come together with other sensitive folks to learn together, support each other and share your gifts amongst each other.-

Logistical Information:
Duration: Ongoing, recommended 3 month minimum
Maximum Participants: 6

Receive the support of the Balance Point tools and the group energy to find your authentic voice, clear old limiting beliefs, behaviors & emotions weighing you down, discovery your unique gifts, passions, wisdom and purpose and create an harmonious life that reflects your authentic truth.-

Logistical Information:

Duration: Ongoing, 6 month minimum
Maximum Participants: 4

An opportunity to share the experience of womanhood with a consistent group of women. Circles will include talking stick sharing, message circles, discussions, healing and other explorations into the sacred journey of being a woman in today's world.-

Logistical Information:
Frequency: Sessions meet 2/mo, 1.5-2 hours/session
When: meeting times TBD by schedules of participants
Cost: $100/mo
Duration: Ongoing
Maximum Participants: 8

These groups will be a more in depth and hands-on experience of learning, integrating and utilizing the art of conscious manifesting. Group sessions will help each participant to learn how manifesting works, expanding beyond the sometimes over-simplified version of "positive thinking" into the significance of the full spectrum of emotions and the role of conscious and subconsious belief systems. Participants will gain clarity on what they want to create and how to create and offer a strong manifesting prayer, how to receive guidance towards  prayers, and work together to support each other putting out their prayers to the Universe.-

Logistical Information:

Duration: Ongoing, recommended 3 month minimum
Maximum Participants: 5

Closed Meditation Circles will offer the same tools as open ones, plus including a space to share your journeys with your fellow meditators and to receive more guidance in building your meditation path and practice. Another advantage is a more steady and stable environment in which to build awareness with a consistent group of fellow journeyers.-

Logistical Information:
Frequency: 2/mo or Weekly, 1-1.5 hours/session
When: meeting times TBD by schedules of participants
Cost: $90-$180/mo depending on frequency
Duration: Ongoing, recommended 3 month minimum
Maximum Participants: 8

Food is one of the most powerful energies in our lives, often times taken for granted in its role in our spiritual journey. In this year long group, we will go in depth in learning about nutrition, our own emotional, practical and spiritual relationship to food and cultivating clear intentions, practical plans and support systems for building the relationship we most desire to this sacred substance and most common life ritual.-

Logistical Information:
Frequency: 2/mo group sessions 2 hours/session, plus 1/mo one-on-one 1-1.5 hour coaching sessions
When: meeting times TBD by schedules of participants
Cost: $320/mo
Duration: Ongoing, 1 year minimum
Maximum Participants: 4

What is your relationship to relationship? In this group, we will be focusing on intimate partner relationships and inviting participants to bring conscious intention, clarity, and most of all, an intention of personal spiritual unfolding to the process of building a nourishing and ever-evolving relationship.  Stephen Levine calls relationship the most difficult form of yoga, it pushes you in every way, and yet, if you can stretch and breath and find presence within it, it can bring astounding & profound benefits, body, mind & spirit.-

Logistical Information:
Frequency: 1/mo group sessions, 1.5-2 hours/session, 1/mo one-on-one coachings sessions for individuals plus an extra 1/mo one-on-two coaching for couples 1-1.5 hour sessions
When: meeting times TBD by schedules of participants
Cost: $210/mo for individuals, $535/mo for couples
Duration: Ongoing, 6 month minimum
Maximum Participants: 6 individuals (3 couples)

Can't decide which group? This may be the one for you then. The Integrated Transformation Process (ITP) is much like a spring cleaning for your life, bringing awareness and clarity to every little nook and cranny. We will address personal transformation from all angles, learning new tools and perspectives, addressing the inner emotional and spiritual journey and touching in with all aspects of daily life; nutrition, finances, time, energy, relationship, physical spaces. It is like a complete tune-up for your life, to bring the whole you into a higher functioning state of potency & harmony. The ITP is for those who feel 100% committed to becoming their fullest selves. It is a minimum commitment of 1 year.-

Logistical Information:
Frequency: 3/mo group sessions 2 hours/session, plus 1/mo one-on-one sessions, 1.5-2 hours
When: meeting times TBD by schedules of participants
Cost: $450/mo
Duration: Ongoing, 1 year minimum
Maximum Participants: 4

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Create Your Own Group

Any Balance Point service offering can be offered in a group format. If you have a specific topic or a group of participants that would like to form a group, we can craft one together. Or, perhaps you feel there is a group facilitator within  you waiting to come out, something you would like to offer. The Balance Point will support and guide you in creating and leading your own group experience.

Now that the Secret is out, there are many people intending and working to create their own reality. However, there's a bit more to it than simple, "positive thinking", so many often feel frustrated with the application of this inspirational approach to life.  Come and discuss the Law of Attraction, learn some of the important details of the process and have a space for putting your prayers "out there" with the support of the group energy.

Enjoy the nourishment of home-cooked organic, gluten-free meals.  We'll decide the menu together, hop over to the coop and shop for it, and cook together...and of course, eat, drink and be merry! (all special dietary needs will be accommodated)

Are you considering venturing out into the world of entrepreneurship as a sole practitioner? Do you feel ready to offer your gifts, straight from your soul's truth to the world? Are you ready to be valued for those gifts while providing meaningful value in return? Taking the step into the land of solopreneurship-building a one-person business, can be a scary prospect, yet the benefits are so tremendous! This group will provide support for the full spectrum of questions, opportunities and challenges that face the "soul"opreneur, all the way from the inner journey of aligning your belief systems with success, manifesting powerful opportunities &  identifying your true gifts to the practicals of building a high-functioning business that provides high-quality service and the resources and energies to live an abundant, soul-filled life. You can do it!

Do you see great potential for positive change, harmony, awakening and transformation in the world? Do you see yourself as an instrument or participant in facilitating that shift? Do you think big and dream big? Are you overrun with a continuous flow of inspiring ideas and need support organizing, grounding and moving into powerful action in a way that is nourishing to yourself and others? Do you want to be surounded by and work together to support other such inspired individuals? The Optimistic Visionaries Coaching Group will help to clarify your vision, strengthen and leverage your gifts, offer tools for organizing your time & energy to maximize your effect and support you in integrating your own personal evolution and growth into your grander visions.

A talking stick circle is, very simply, a safe space for people to share about their experience of life while others listen.  A place to hear, and be heard.

How does it work?

A stick is passed around a circle. Whoever is holding the stick has the floor while everyone else listens.  A person is welcome to share, from the heart, whatever needs to be spoken, while others listen from the heart place.  When a person is done sharing, they simply pass the stick on.  You can say as much or as little as you want, though people are encouraged to be conscious of the rest of the group when choosing to share at length.

At any point, a person is welcome to join in or leave, respectfully, when they need, though it is preferred for people to arrive punctually and stay until the end if they can. 

The stick can go around the circle once, but sometimes circles are structured where the stick is passed until it gets all the way around the circle without anyone saying anything.

During Balance Point Talking Stick Circles, we will likely pass the stick around at least twice.

What are the benefits?

• develop a sense of community and togetherness around being on a spiritual, introspective or intentful path
• experience being seen, heard, accepted and honored for your truest self
• have the space to release whatever is being held inside
• uncover your own wisdom through verbal processing.
  

What makes it safe?

Bearing witness

Whatever a person shares is between them and the Source of life, all the other people in the group are simply bearing witness, providing the space for it to come out.

No dialogue, cross-talk, response, feedback, comments

If what someone shares sparks something inside yourself that you want to share, it is important to keep what you share about yourself, rather than a response to another person.  The Balance Point practice is that, if, after the circle, you want to offer feedback, converse or ask questions to someone, you can ask them if they are open to discussing something they shared in circle, knowing that they have the full right to say “no”.  Even with this practice, please use your discression to preserve the safety of the space for simple expression.  There is no offering of feedback during a circle.

Confidentiality

Everything that is shared in the circle, stays in the circle.

No consoling, verbally or physically, if/when someone begins to emote (if it is too much for you, you may leave the circle)

When a person comes to an emotional place when sharing, it is common for others to feel drawn to console the person with tender touches or soothing words. Please do not do this. If you have this urge, notice how the person’s emotions may be bringing up uncomfortable emotions inside of yourself, and try to be present with that.  If a person is emoting, that means the medicine of the circle is working, and helping them to process something. When we sooth or console, though we may not be consciously aware of it, we are trying to stop the emotional release, and we are not fully listening to what is being shared. The best way to support that person in context of the circle is to fully listen with compassion & honoring for their truth. 

Exceptions: If the person themselves specifically asks to be touched, you can do so. If you feel extremely called to offer physical touches when they have not been solicited, you can ask the person if they would like to receive, knowing they have a full right to say “no”.

Take responsibility for your own judgments or reactions

If what someone shares brings up judgments, personal feelings, or a desire to fix, change someone, you are invited to introspect what the reflection is for you in your life.  When a life situation of someone else bothers us, it is usually because it is connecting with something in our own lives that we are challenged by. If you need to process some of this, Julie is available for short check-ins after the circle or for private sessions.

Where did this practice come from?

This is an ancient practice used throughout history by many native peoples for facilitating councils and other such forums in order to make sure that everybody’s voice is heard. I have heard tell of stories where a tribe sat in talking stick for three days, until everyone had their full say.  We live in a fast-paced modern society where we are not very used to pure listening, nor purely being heard. It can be strong medicine for the soul.  And while three days may be more than any of us or our modern schedules can bear, a couple of hours can have a powerful effect.

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Open Women’s Circles
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Main Intention:

To share the experience of being women in a safe space, within the context of the Balance Point intentions and offerings, and to benefit from the support & wisdom of the shared journey.

Expectations:

What can you expect to experience/receive in this space?

• Sharing/Verbal Processing/Listening
• Personal Discovery, Reflection & Exploration
• Organic Healing & Discussion
• Opportunities to Offer & Receive Feedback & Guidance
• Organic Learning
• Thanksgiving
• Affirmation/Honoring
• Meditation
• Emotional Release Opportunities
• Connecting to/Channeling Intuitive & Spiritual Guidance
• Network with Fellow Female Journeyers
• Opportunities to Take Personal Responsibility for Your Life/Step into your Power
• Acceptance
• Giving & Receiving Support
• Adults 18 or older, except on a case-by-case basis
  

What can you not expect to experience/receive in this space?

• Teaching/Lecturing/Structured Learning
• Fixing or Being Fixed
• Guaranteed Results & Opportunities
• Organizing
• Showcasing
• Presentations
• Directed Philosophical Exploration & Discussion
• Coaching
• Youth under the age of 18, except on a case-by-case basis
  

General Guidelines & Agreements-IMPORTANT

What Intentions are invited of you as the Participant to bring to the Group in order for it to function according to its highest intentions (to be embodied to the best of your ability):

• The Law of Two Feet-all participants are free to leave respectfully at any time, it is each participant’s responsibility to make sure their own needs are being met
• What happens is what needed to happen
• Verbal feedback to another participant and physical consoling or reaching out is to be offered only with permission or by invitation of the woman receiving-all personal boundaries set by participants will be honored by all other participants
• Each participant is responsible for voicing their own needs from or questions about the group to Julie
• Each participant is invited to take responsibility for their own judgments and/or reactions that may or may not arise in listening or connecting with other women. It is invited to relate to these as opportunities for personal growth and discovery. Julie is available outside circle for brief check-ins or full sessions to process anything that does not have space within the circle
• You as the participant are responsible for getting the clarity you need to understand what you can and cannot expect from this group
• Each participant is responsible for what they choose to take from the group into their daily lives
• All emotions, opinions, perspectives, life states & situations have space to be heard and honored within the context of the group as long they are not imposed on other participants-any concerns or objections in this area are invited to be brought to Julie’s attention
• All participants are strongly encouraged to hold the safe space by respecting the intention of confidentiality
  

What role can you expect Julie as the Leader of the Circle to embody (to be offered to the best of her ability):

• Keep to the time (2 hours, unless decided otherwise by participants)
• Leading the direction of the group activities & decision-making according to personal spiritual guidance & expressed needs & guidance of the group
• Preparation of the physical space
• Communicating to participants, according to the means they provide, any relevant information regarding the Circle
• Delegating any roles
• Confidentiality
• Availability for listening to feedback and the willingess to integrate it in a way that matches the larger groups’ needs and meeting the intentions of the BP
• Maintaining the boundaries as set forth in this document
  

Thank you for bringing your energies to this Circle! You’re Sacred Journey offers gifts to us all!!

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What is the Difference between Open & Closed Women’s Circles
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Open Circles

• Activities of the groups will be largely affected by how many women choose to show up (therefore consistency of content cannot be guaranteed)
• Consistency of participants is not required or guaranteed
• No process for selecting participants; any women, aged 18 or above are welcome
• Content and format will be sculpted by the group leader, though influenced by group preference
• By Donation, suggested $5-25
  

Closed Circles

• Group size and therefore general format and content will remain consistent
• An opportunity to develop a cumulative relationship with specific women
• An opportunity to create a cumulative content that builds upon itself, each circle to the next
• Content, format and agreements will be facilitated by the group leader, but sculpted by the participants
• Due to consistency, opportunities for organizing other opportunities of support between the participants is available
• Due to consistency, opportunities for structured learning, philosophical exploration & discussion are available according to the desire of the group
• Though all women who seek to be in a group, will be welcomed in, closed groups afford the opportunity to organize separate groups according to a generally aligned set of intentions and goals to maximize the potency of the group experience (age, race, sexual orientation or religion will not be used as factors in organizing closed groups)
• Possibilities for child-care may be arranged through the group for during circles
• At cost, $100/month for 2/month, 2 hour meetings
• Group registration size limited to 8 (smaller groups may be formed according to the desire of registrants)
• Registrants are expected to attend consistently or to communicate intentions not to participate