Heartspace Circles
Small group experiences for inner listening, creative exploration, and symbolic reflection
Heartspace Circles offer space to slow down, listen inwardly, and deepen your relationship with your inner life.
Through guided meditation, creative process, reflective inquiry, and shared presence, participants are invited to explore what is emerging and engage more deeply with the symbolic and imaginal dimensions of experience.
While informed by transpersonal art therapy and therapeutic practice, these circles are not therapy groups. Rather, they offer reflective and imaginal experiences that support meaning-making and inner exploration within a shared group setting.
Groups are intentionally small (6–8 participants) to support depth, safety, and meaningful connection.
The Heartspace Circle Pathways
Soul Card Circles
Creating your Soul Card
Soul Card Circles are a space for inner listening, where image and symbol give form to what is quietly unfolding within you.
At the heart of each circle is the creation of a personal Soul Card — a collaged image shaped through intuition, simple materials and guided reflection.
The focus is not on artistic skill, but on resonance, meaning, and what begins to emerge when you listen inwardly.
Your card becomes a companion — something you can return to over time, offering reflection, insight, and gentle orientation.
The Medicine Wheel
A journey through the four doorways of the Sacred Circle
The Heartspace Medicine Wheel is held as a transpersonal and archetypal framework for exploring life cycles, inner thresholds, and patterns of becoming.
Working with the Sacred Circle invites symbolic and embodied inquiry through four directional pathways:
East — direction and purpose
North — strength and boundaries
West — healing and release
South — wisdom and integration
Approached symbolically rather than prescriptively, the Medicine Wheel offers a way to orient within larger movements of psyche and life. The work is held as a ritual and imaginal space for reflection, remembrance, and integration.
Dreamscape Circle
Entering the landscape of dream, image, and inner listening
Dreamscape Circles offer a shared container for working with dreams, imagery, and the symbolic language of the psyche.
Through creative expression and reflective dialogue, participants explore night dreams, waking images, and recurring inner motifs.
Dreams often speak through image, symbol, feeling, and metaphor. Working creatively with these inner experiences can deepen self-understanding, reveal hidden patterns, and open new perspectives on what may be unfolding in your life.
No prior dreamwork experience is needed — openness to imagery and reflection is enough.
Is this for me?
Heartspace Circles may be a good fit if you are drawn to:
creative processes as a form of inquiry
dreams, symbols, and imagination as pathways to insight
inner listening and reflection
small, contained group experiences
depth held with clarity and boundaries
These circles are best suited to those who feel relatively resourced and curious about inner exploration. If you are currently experiencing significant distress or feel unsure about participating in a group setting, individual support may be more appropriate.
You’re always welcome to reach out if you’d like help discerning what feels right.
Circles & 1:1 Inner Work
For some, circles are complete and nourishing experiences in themselves.
For others, insights that arise in circle naturally invite further reflection or integration. In these cases, 1:1 Inner Work sessions offer a place to deepen, unpack, or continue what has been touched in a more personal way.
There is no expectation to move between group and individual work — both stand independently, while gently supporting one another for those who choose.
Private Circles
Occasionally, Heartspace Circles may be offered by request for pre-formed groups of four or more, with a shared intention, and when scheduling aligns.
Frequently Asked Questions
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No. While Heartspace Circles are held with therapeutic care, presence, and respect, they are not therapy groups and do not replace individual therapeutic support.
They offer reflective and creative group experiences that support insight, meaning-making, and inner exploration through symbolic and imaginal process, rather than providing therapy or treatment.
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No. Sharing is always invitational.
Many people find value in listening, reflecting, and participating in ways that feel comfortable for them. While opportunities for sharing are offered, there is no expectation to disclose personal experiences or speak beyond what feels appropriate.
Care is taken to create a respectful environment where different levels of participation are welcome.
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Not at all.
The creative processes used in Heartspace Circles are simple, accessible, and focused on exploration rather than artistic skill.
Many people arrive feeling uncertain about art-making and are surprised by how supportive and enjoyable the process can be.
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Depending on the circle, creative activities may include collage, drawing, painting, clay, journalling, working with images or symbols, and simple reflective exercises.
The emphasis is not on creating something polished or impressive. Creative process is used as a way of listening, exploring, and giving form to experiences that may be difficult to access through words alone.
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A degree of vulnerability is often part of meaningful inner work and group experience.
Heartspace Circles are best suited to those who feel relatively resourced and able to engage in reflective exploration within a group setting.
If you are currently experiencing significant distress or are unsure whether a group experience feels right for you, you’re welcome to reach out. In some circumstances, individual support may be a more appropriate starting place.
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Most Heartspace Circles are currently offered in person in the Perth Hills.
Occasionally, online circles may be offered where the format is well suited to an online environment.
Details for each offering will be provided when registrations open.
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Groups are intentionally kept small, typically capped at 6–8 participants.
This allows space for depth, reflection, meaningful connection, and careful facilitation of the group process.
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Bookings for Heartspace Circles are non-refundable, as places are limited and each circle is prepared for in advance.
If you’re unable to attend, you’re welcome to gift or transfer your place to someone else, with prior notice.
With at least 72 hours’ notice, a credit may be offered toward a future Heartspace Circle or workshop, subject to availability and within a reasonable timeframe.
Expression of Interest
Heartspace Circles are offered in limited numbers throughout the year.
You’re warmly invited to register your interest to be notified when upcoming circles are announced. Registering your interest does not commit you to attending — it simply helps shape future offerings.
