Less Story. More Presence.
Presence & Acceptance Circle
What happens when you stop fixing yourself?
The Presence & Acceptance Circle
is a guided awareness space where people come not only to share their experiences, but to discover a different way of relating to them.
This is not a space for fixing, advising, analyzing, or trying to improve yourself.
Instead, it is a quiet, practice-based environment where participants are gently guided out of mental stories and into direct experience — into sensing, noticing, allowing, and becoming present with what is here.
Most people spend much of their lives inside the busy mind.
In this circle, we slow down enough to reconnect with a quieter and more grounded part of ourselves — the part that can feel, notice, and remain present without resistance.
Less fixing.
Less advice.
Less performance.
More presence.
More compassionate attention.
More authentic connection.
A Different Kind of Circle
Most groups are built around teaching, emotional processing, advice, or techniques.
This one is different.
The Presence & Acceptance Circle is a simple gathering where we sit together in awareness — without trying to fix, change, or improve anything.
Nothing needs to be solved.
Nothing needs to be improved.
We simply meet what is here.
As stories soften and the mind grows quieter, a different quality of experience begins to emerge — a sense of presence, aliveness, peace, and genuine human connection that many people rarely experience in everyday life. And more at ease — not because their problems were solved, but because they discovered a different way of being with them.
Together, we create the conditions where insight can arise naturally.
What This Space is Is For
• Slowing down enough to notice what is here
• Meeting your experience directly, without pressure to change it
• Feeling more grounded, connected, and alive
• Exploring what lives beneath the surface of the busy mind
• Allowing stories to soften so presence can come forward
• Being with others in a simple, honest, human way
• Remembering that you do not have to go through life alone.
Who It's For
This circle is for you if:
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You feel stuck in your thoughts and want something more direct.
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You're open to slowing down and experiencing instead of constantly explaining.
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You value honesty, presence, compassion, and depth.
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You long for an authentic connection.
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You want to feel held — in a group, in your truth, and in your becoming
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You don't need advice — you want clarity from within.
What This Is Not
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• This is not a group therapy
• This is not advice-giving or problem-solving
• This is not teaching or lecturing
• This is not emotional performance or self-improvement work.
What Happens When You Come
We begin by settling into the body and the present moment.
Each person has space to share without interruption, fixing, or analysis.
You are gently guided out of mental storytelling and into direct experience — into noticing sensations, emotions, breath, silence, and awareness itself.
Something begins to shift — not through force or effort, but through presence.
Participants often leave feeling more grounded, connected, and at ease — not because their problems were solved, but because they discovered a different way of being with them.
This is a space of presence — where insight arises naturally.
Next Circle
Online Circle In-person Circle (Portland)
1st & 3rd Saturdays of each month 1st & 3rd Saturdays of each month
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Zoom) 3:00 – 4:30 PM
Next online circle Next in-person circle
August First (1st) August First (1st)
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Zoom) 3:00 – 4:30 PM
Zoom link will be shared after Multnomah Arts Center
you reserve your spot. 7688 SW Capitol Highway
Portland, OR 97219
Limited space — early RSVP recommended
Contribution: A suggested contribution of $15 supports the space. If this isn't accessible right now, please still come.