MotherCircle Alameda
MotherCircle
Alameda
An 8-week journey for mothers who want to find their village — and themselves.
What is MotherCircle?
MotherCircle Alameda is a sacred gathering for mothers of all stages who want to have deeper conversations about motherhood in the presence of a supportive community.
MotherCircle offers women in all seasons of life an opportunity to mine the profound wisdom that can emerge through motherhood. It supports you to explore the unseen arc of your motherhood journey, step confidently into your new identity as a mother, and build the village you need along the way. Circling together returns us to an age-old practice: women, sitting in circle, growing together through support, honesty, and courage.
MotherCircle is the brainchild of Kimberly Ann Johnson and Jessica Connolly, who have trained and certified hundreds of facilitators all over the world (including me!). MotherCircle Alameda is one circle of many aiming to rebuild mother culture and strengthen our communities across the globe.
Entering motherhood is an underworld journey often not seen and recognized by the outer world. Learn the arc of this journey, the tools to be present to it, and be witnessed as you locate yourself within it.
Awareness of our cyclical nature can help us align with out innate wisdom as mothers. Explore how being in rhythm with the cycles in and around us gives us more access to our wholeness and our power.
Everything a new baby needs, a new mother also needs. Learn a powerful framework for assessing your physical and emotional wellness, and how to tend to what's needed in your body no matter where you are at in your motherhood journey.
The predator-prey dynamic is present in our experience of birth and motherhood. Explore how this awareness and understanding of your nervous system can impact your everyday life and mothering.
Birth is an initiatory experience that fundamentally changes us. We'll explore ways to access and share this experience that locates the wisdom it has to offer for our motherhood journeys.
There is often a split between being a mother and being sexual. Learn how to connect with your ever changing sexuality as a mother and become more at home in your body and your sexuality.
Motherhood changes how we relate to our work in the world. Explore the relationship between your worth and your value and anchor the things that nurture your worth as part of your mothering practice.
We have a powerful opportunity to imagine the legacy we'd like to leave. We are shaped by our motherline and the mothers around us, and we can choose what we want to carry forward. Together we'll identify the values that we want to guide us mothering and shape our lineage.
Sessions
Our eight sessions will form an arc, allowing us to deepen into connection with ourselves, other mothers, and the material. These sessions are a mixture of learning, feeling, and witnessing. Each session will have a theme, as follows, and will allow exploration of the theme through inner reflection, journaling, somatic and breathing exercises, and sharing in dyads and groups.
Logistics
When?
NEXT ROUND STARTS JANUARY 25, 2025.
Sign up below to join the waitlist.
Current round is underway on 8 consecutive Saturdays from September 21 through November 9, 2024, 11am–12:30pm
Where?
Park Street & Santa Clara Ave, Alameda, CA
(Precise location to be shared upon enrollment.)
How Much?
$349 for enrollment in the 8 session package (Early Bird Discount: $299 until January 1)
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Please make plans to attend this circle childfree. Exceptions may be made for pre-crawling babies in arms.
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The course is designed as an 8-week arc where each class builds on the last, so please make your best effort to attend all sessions. There are no refunds or makeups for missed sessions.
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Space is limited. Please reach out to schedule a 20 minute chat if you'd like to know more or to enroll.
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I will be offering these groups 3 times a year (January. April, and September) so please add your name to my list if you'd like to be notified of future circles.
What Else Do I Need to Know?
Facilitator
My name is Sarah Connolly. I am an Alameda mother of two living daughters, ages 3 and 13, and one spirit baby. I am also an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (#145129)
supervised by Natalie Webster (LMFT #126065) at the Axis Mundi Center for Mental Health.
My own journey through motherhood has been devastatingly beautiful, absolutely transformative, and has led me to dedicate my life to supporting other mothers. I have been blessed to be held in circles of wise mothers at each stage of my motherhood journey, and am honored to carry that gift forward and facilitate that community of support in our amazing island city.
When not working to support mothers, you can find me biking around the island with my daughters in our cargo bike; spending time in parks and at the beach; taking long solo walks by the water; hopping on the ferry for date nights with my husband; or curling up with my kitties and a great book.
This space is for you if...
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You crave a space to connect on a deeper level with other women.
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Your transition to motherhood felt huge and you are confused as to why no one else is talking about this stuff.
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You're still healing from birth, loss, and early motherhood experiences.
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You're struggling with how to balance motherhood, relationship, sex, work, and self care.
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You birthed during the pandemic and missed out on the depth of care and connection that you needed.
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You're preparing to welcome another child and have unprocessed emotions from a previous birth or the transition to motherhood.
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You are pregnant, a new mother, an older mother, a grandmother, an empty nester, have adopted your child(ren), or have lost a child.
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You are passionate about building a culture where sisterhood and mothering matters.