SHE RECOVERS Foundation (SRF) Sharing Circles are local community containers of support informed by the SRF Intentions & Guiding Principles. They are professionally facilitated, peer-supported, and intended for women and non-binary individuals who identify with women’s communities – who are in or seeking recovery – to connect, learn, heal, and share within a group of like-hearted individuals.

Intentions

Each SRF Sharing Circle plays an integral part of achieving the SRF Foundation’s mission and focuses on the following intentions:

Provide a holistic and unique recovery experience that is peer-supported, topic-focused, trauma-informed, and voluntarily facilitated by SRF Certified Professionals.

Create opportunities for women of diverse backgrounds and life experiences to connect, learn, heal and share about the practice of recovery with other like-hearted folks.

Celebrate diversity by embracing all recovery pathways and patchworks, all races, sexual orientations, body sizes, and all those differences of life situations, backgrounds, and abilities.

By supporting individualized recovery pathways we aim to help women build recovery capital and utilize all holistic practices and resources.

Serve as a free healing resource within a recovery-oriented system of care that complements other professional recovery supports such as, but not limited to, trauma therapy, counseling, addiction treatment, coaching services, psychiatric and/or medical care.

Foster co-created experiences built on a foundation of set intentions, agreements, and mutual respect for all participants, volunteers, and facilitators.

Attend a She Recovers Sharing Circle

We are excited to gather once again in-person. Check out a local community SHE RECOVERS Sharing Circle near you!

CANADA

Kelowna, BC

Facilitator: Dawn Kuehn, SRCD & Jen Lebedoff, SRYT
Frequency: Varies
Time: Varies
Location: Invati Yoga,
1829 Chandler Street Kelowna, BC
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Calgary, AB

Facilitator: Nicole Cameron SRCD
Frequency: Monthly
Time: Last Friday of the Month @ 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Location: TBD

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Ottawa, ON

Facilitator: Payton Kennedy, SRCD, SRYT, SRDF
Frequency: Monthly
Time: Every third Saturday @ 3:00 – 4:30 pm
Begins on: May 20, 2023
Location:  Parkdale Food Centre
30 Rosemount Avenue, Ottawa, ON
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Sea to Sky, BC

Facilitator: Bronwen Thorburn, SRCD
Frequency: Paused
Time: Paused
Location: Whistler Women’s Centre : 1519 Spring Creek Dr. Whistler, BC V8E 0A2
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Saturna Island, BC

Facilitator: SHE RECOVERS Director of Community Engagement & Online Programs, Lisa Wall, SRCD, CTP
Frequency: Bi-weekly
Time: Wednesdays @ 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Location: Confidential, Saturna Island, BC
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Victoria, BC

Facilitator: SHE RECOVERS Founder, Dawn Nickel, PhD + SRCD
Frequency: Monthly
Time: Last Sunday of every month @ 12:30-2:30 pm PST (Except for the first Sharing Circle – January 15)
Location: Umbrella Society, 415 Dunedin St #8, Victoria, BC
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USA

Atlanta, GA

Facilitator: Allison Stanley, SRCD
Frequency: Monthly
Time: Varies
Location:
Varies, Atlanta
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Boston & Cape Cod, MA

A SHE RECOVERS Foundation Chapter in New England Sharing Circle
Facilitator:
Deb Harrington, SRCD & Kathy Robbins, SRCD
Frequency: Last Sunday of every month
Time: 10:30-11:30 AM
Location: A Place to Breathe – 62 Bonnie Lane, Waquoit, MA

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Buffalo, NY

Facilitator: Johnna Mauro, SRCD
Frequency: 2nd and 4th Saturdays
Time: 10:30 – 11:30 am
Location: Yoga Parkside
2 Wallace Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14214

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Hanover, MA

A SHE RECOVERS Foundation Chapter in New England Sharing Circle
Facilitator:
Kathy Robbins, LICSW, CPCC, SRC and Clare Garrity. CPCC, SRC
Frequency: Monthly
Time:11:30 am -1:00 pm
Location: Outside Boston at
Juniko
1376 Washington Street
Hanover, MA 02339

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Los Angeles, CA

Facilitator: Mary Kamalski, SRCD
Frequency: Monthly
Time: 3rd Sunday of every month
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Location:
Trauma & Beyond Center
14156 Magnolia Blvd, #101, Sherman Oaks, CA
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Massena, NY

Facilitators: Lauren Sommerfield, SRCD, SRYT & Chantal Forrest, SRYT
Currently paused
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Park City, UT

Facilitators: Tracy Sjostrom CPC, SRCD, M.Ed.,&  Erin Wickersham CPC, SRCD
Frequency: Paused
Time: Paused
Location:
PC Yoga Collective at Redstone 
1154 Center Dr D210, Park City, UT
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Paso Robles, CA

Facilitator: Monica Galli, SRCD
Frequency: First Thursday of every month (starting February 2023)
Time: 6:00-7:00 pm
Location:
Dharma Yoga Loft Wellness Lounge First Floor
1329 Spring Street Paso Robles, CA
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Pleasant Hill (SF East Bay), CA

Facilitator: Lynn Galliano, SRPD
Frequency: Fourth Saturday of the month (begins October 2023)
Time: 10:00 – 11:30 AM
Location:
Church of the Resurrection
399 Gregory Lane · Pleasant Hill, CA
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Royal Oak, MI

Facilitator: Kathie Smigels, MA, LLPC, NCC, CADC, CPRM, SRCD
Frequency: Weekly
Time:Every Tuesday @ 7:00 pm 
Location:
Free Living Recovery, LLC / Zupac Law and Yoga
1719 Crooks Road, Royal Oak, MI
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Seattle, WA

Facilitator: Jennifer Olmos, SRYT
Frequency: Monthly
Time: Varies
Location:
Capitol Hill Branch, Seattle Public Library
425 Harvard Ave E, Seattle, WA
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St. Louis, MO

Facilitator: Gayla Downey, SRYT
Frequency: Varies on Sundays
Time: 2nd Sunday of each month from 6:00 to 7:00, followed by a 15 minute break and then an optional 30 minute trauma-informed yoga practice from 7:15 to 7:45pm.
Location:
South River Yoga
4405A Meramec Bottom Road Suite A, St. Louis, MO 63129
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York, ME

A SHE RECOVERS Foundation Chapter in New England Sharing Circle
Facilitator:
MaryBeth Murphy, SRCD
Frequency: Monthly
Time: Every 3rd Sunday of the Month @ 1:30 pm
Location:
Yoga on York
250 York Street York, ME
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AUSTRALIA

Australia

A National Online SHE RECOVERS Sharing Circle
Facilitator:
Alison Middleton SRCD & Caroline Mosha SRCD
Frequency: Weekly on Thursdays
Time: Thursdays @ 8:00 – 9:00 PM ACST
Location:
Online (contact for access)
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Tell us what you think.

Your voice matters and can help us to continue improving SHE RECOVERS Sharing Circles for all who seek to join a movement like ours.

The SHE RECOVERS Sharing Circles have been a saving grace for me. I have been missing in-person connection over the past few years. It is so healing for me to be in community with others who “get it”. I can be myself. I can share from the heart (or not if I don’t feel comfortable). I know my presence in this space impacts me and the others I have the honor of holding space for. We are stronger together.

~ SR COMMUNITY MEMBER ~

Frequently Asked Questions

Do Sharing Circles cost anything to attend?
No. Accessibility is of utmost importance to SRF. All Sharing Circles must remain free of charge.
Who is able to facilitate a SHE RECOVERS Sharing Circle?

One of the things that makes our Sharing Circles unique is the professionally facilitated and peer-supported environment. All SHE RECOVERS Coaches, Trauma-Informed Yoga Teachers, and other SHE RECOVERS Certified Professionals are welcome to facilitate.

When will I be able to host a Sharing Circle?

We are welcoming expressions of interest forms now!

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