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Sacred Circles: A Guide To Creating Your Own Women's Spirituality Group

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This book has it all if you want to start your own group. Easy to read, fleshes out every aspect needed to get a group going, and spiritually thougtht-provoking. A friend and I have begun our own group as a direct result of this book. Particularly helpful was a chapter offering fully planned out meetings (theme and alter suggestions, readings, group activity options). It's all mapped out. It also has lists of other resources that are available to support woman's groups (books, videos, music, web sites, etc.)

If you are thinking about forming a women's circle with an emphasis on spirituality, this is an excellent guide. There are helpful how-to suggestions, principles and examples. It is deservedly listed as a resouce on the millionthcircle,org website.

Regardless of whether you intend to start a women's group or not, this book is extremely thought provoking. I gave it to a friend and the discussions it instigated resulted in a deepening of our friendship. I recommend that you do not read it unless you are prepared to be challenged. It is fantastic and I am certain that I am a better person for having read it.

I used this book to start a spirituality group and I have nothing but praise for it! Everything you need to start your own group is there, including meeting topics that are already planned out for you. My group has relied heavily on this guide, both in our formative stage and also during the first few months of meetings. I anticipate that we will continue using it for at least another year or two. My copy has circulated amongst all the group members -- it's getting pretty dog-eared! "Sacred Circles" has been the main contributing factor in the success of my group.

This is an excellent overview of women's spirituality groups. I am amazed at how similar it is to my own experience as a member of a "sacred circle." Anyone interested in forming such a group or curious about the experiences of others in such a group should read this book.

I wish I had read this book when a friend and I tried to start a group that would study/read books about feminist theology. The concepts of council sharing, ritual, and the stages of community building would have been very helpful. I'm teaching a hospice volunteer training session class on spirituality soon and also a journal writing as a spiritual tool class at Chautauqua this summer and just got lots of ideas from this book, especially starting with a ritual that will include silence and an "altar" in the center of our space. A very practical and inspirational book!

I really like this book, it gives a honest look at womens circles and gives a fantastic template that anyone could, and in my opinon should use. Having been a member of some of these groups myself I can tell you problems always arise. You can work them out the hard way, but why try to invent your own mouse trap when a great one already exists. These ladies have clearly been around the circle block so to speak. I say learn from what you can from their experence, and take the advise of other groups that work. It should be a reference book for any circle.

I wanted to start a Women's Spirituality Group but I never started any kind of group. I was not sure where to begin and that is where Sacred Circles came into play. I read the book, highlighted what I felt was important and then followed the suggestions. Sacred Circles walked me through step-by-step with the planning. It suggested how to run the first meeting and ideas for future meetings. After I told my friend about the book and she read some of it, she agreed to be my partner. This was the most informing book that I found on the subject. It took the edge off a new endeavor.

Our lives are our story and our story is our life. What a great sentence. I've always felt that sometimes our children have lacked connection to their past by not living near relatives or grandparents, as families have had tendency to spread out across the country in the last few decades. This book really looks at how important "The telling" is of what we would even describe as the simplist story....what was my mom like growing up as a child? what did she do for fun? our own family history is so important and we forget to pass that on sometimes. This book is wonderful in bringing that back into focus and encouraging us to share those stories, with our children AND our friends. This is a great read!

WHAT AN AMAZING BOOK - LIKE BRINGING IN A NEW FRIEND FOR TEA! THIS IS ONE OF THOSE GREAT "WOMAN FRIENDSHIP" TITLES, ONE THAT I TRULY TREASURE AND HAVE SHARED WITH MANY OTHER WOMEN IN MY OWN SACRED COMMUNITY. BLESSED BE!