About this Event
What happens when a small group gathers with clear intention, open hearts, and a willingness to hold possibility for one another? Something quite powerful — even magical. These monthly circles are designed as an intimate, spacious experience where each participant has the time and support needed to fully step into the vision they’re calling in. Through guided reflection, embodied practice, and group-supported enactment, we create a warm and grounded container where your future self can begin to take shape in a real and felt way. ✨
This is not a rushed workshop or a quick dose of inspiration. It’s a four-hour communal practice of presence, embodiment, and shared energy. With a max of only seven participants, everyone receives dedicated time to explore their intention while the group holds, mirrors, and amplifies it. What tends to emerge is a kind of soft, unmistakable magic — the feeling of being wrapped in a warm blanket with a cup of tea beside a fire, surrounded by people who genuinely want to see your best self rise. You’ll leave feeling lighter, more connected, and more attuned to the possibility that your next chapter is already taking root.
In a world that can feel heavy, chaotic, or uncertain, these circles offer a place to tend the light — not through denial or toxic positivity, but through community, grounded presence, and shared humanity. This is not a space for manifesting Lamborghinis or bypassing the realities of our lives. It’s a space for imagining ourselves held, supported, safe, loved, and connected. A space to remember what it feels like to rise from within, even in dark times. Together, we strengthen the part of us that knows how to hope, how to dream, and how to call in the kind of life that nourishes the soul.
📍Event Details
- Saturday, February 28, from 1-5 pm
- Sunday, March 29, from 1-5p
Join us for one or both.
$37 / circle
Limited to 7 participants.
Additional Details:
Registration required. Registration closes 24 hours prior to the event.
The registration fee is non-refundable unless the event is canceled by the facilitator.
Parking Information
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IMPORTANT: If you are not able to attend an event for which you have registered please so that we may offer that space to someone on the wait list. Thank you.
✨ Led by Janna Browning
Janna Browning, MA, PRDT is a seasoned Trauma-Informed Drama Therapist, Expressive Arts Practitioner, Director, and and Co-Founder of Integrative StoryWorks (ISW). She has a private practice at Shakti in the Mountains were she sees individual and families. She received her BFA in Acting from Emerson College in Boston and her MA in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
In California, she worked with Armand Volkas in Healing the Wounds of History, which uses expressive arts therapy to bring together groups who share a legacy of historical trauma. Her work with HWH includes groundbreaking projects uniting Armenians and Turks to address the shared legacy of the Armenian Genocide, as well as facilitating dialogue and healing around the historical traumas of Palestinians and Israelis, the conflict in Northern Ireland, and the deep racial wounds of the United States.
Janna has also worked with Community Performance International, a company specializing in community building across lines of difference, using the stories of a community in large-scale theatre performances. She helped develop Community Story Performances in towns across the South and created programming for schools. In 2011, she co-founded the StoryTown Program in Jonesborough, TN, which continues to this day.
As a grief practitioner, Janna brings her trauma-informed drama therapy expertise into the realm of community grief-tending—facilitating monthly grief rituals, keening circles, and embodied expressive arts processes to help individuals and communities honor loss, release what can no longer be carried, and make space for renewal. Her grief work draws from ancestral Celtic traditions, trauma-informed expressive arts, and ritual-based collective healing practices.
She is co-founder of Integrative StoryWorks, a company that uses personal stories to heal individual and collective wounds, as well as StoryWander Travel, which offers escorted, story-based small group travel experiences.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Shakti in the Mountains, 409 East Unaka Avenue, Johnson City, United States
USD 37.00
