Circles for Reflection

The COVID pandemic has profoundly altered every aspect of our lives.  Work, relationships, daily routines, even passions and habits have bent to challenges wrought by the looming shadow of this mysterious and terrifying illness.  The necessary changes of personal adaptation have altered not just what we do, but who we feel ourselves to be.  

Some changes in awareness of self may be unwelcome, anxiety-provoking, and uncomfortable. Many of us have discovered aspects of our human potential that surprise and disturb us. Other changes may delight us, in life and love-affirming ways.  

If you long for a place and some fellow souls to join in reflecting on the impact of the pandemic on who you have discovered yourself to be, join us in one of the four-session facilitator-led small groups of 6-8 Beacon members.  Unfortunately for those suffering from Zoom fatigue, we will be meeting via Zoom.  

These groups are neither didactic nor therapeutic, but a chance to join with others in reflection.  Each week’s group will focus on a specific area of personal experience:   

• One’s sense of self and well-being and relationships with family and/or friends.

• Work and/or volunteer activities, and finances.

• Religious, spiritual sense of self.

• Views of one’s personal future.

Participants will be asked to covenant to the following:

• Attending each of the four sessions

• Confidentiality

• Deep listening

• Responding rooted in personal connections evoked by deep listening to others

Facilitators:

Kristen Peck and Suzanne Pallak, each of whom is a clinical psychologist with experience facilitating groups in a range of settings, will each offer the four-session series on Sundays (5-6:30 p.m.) beginning February 7.

Sign up here to register for the Circles for Reflection series.