Circle Agreements & Terms
By joining this closed women's circle, you are entering a shared space rooted in mutual responsibility, respect and care—for yourself, one another and the integrity of the circle.
These agreements are here to create a container in which trust, honesty and transformation can unfold.
Personal Responsibility
You remain responsible for your own emotional, mental and physical wellbeing throughout the year.
While this circle can be deeply supportive and therapeutic in nature, it is not a substitute for medical, psychological or psychiatric care. You are encouraged to honour your own needs, listen to your boundaries and seek additional professional support whenever appropriate.
Please let me know before attending if you have any relevant medical conditions, injuries, allergies or accessibility requirements that may affect your participation or require additional support.
You are always welcome to step outside, take a pause or tend to yourself during a gathering if needed.
Commitment to the Circle
This is a year-long closed circle.
By joining, you are committing to the full duration of the journey.
The depth of this work is created through continuity. Meeting with the same group over the course of the year allows trust, belonging and genuine transformation to unfold. Your presence matters—not only for your own journey, but for the women walking alongside you.
Whilst life is beautifully unpredictable and occasional absences may be unavoidable, your commitment is to the circle as a whole.
Live attendance is encouraged wherever possible. Gatherings are not recorded and missed sessions cannot be refunded or repeated.
Confidentiality
Everything shared within the circle is treated with respect and confidentiality.
Participants are asked not to share another woman's stories, experiences or personal information outside of the circle. You are, of course, welcome to share your own experience of your journey, but not that of others.
Whilst confidentiality cannot be legally guaranteed within a group setting, it is a shared commitment that allows everyone to arrive with openness and trust.
Respectful Participation
This circle is founded upon kindness, curiosity and mutual respect.
Each woman is invited to listen deeply, honour differing perspectives and allow every voice to be heard without interruption, judgement or unsolicited advice.
We each bring unique life experiences, beliefs and ways of seeing the world. Diversity of perspective is welcomed and held with compassion.
Participants are expected to attend free from the influence of alcohol or recreational drugs.
Energy Exchange & Payments
Your place is reserved exclusively for you for the duration of the programme.
As this is a closed circle with limited spaces, your commitment means that another woman is unable to take your place once the programme has begun.
For this reason, all payments are final and non-refundable, including in the event of missed sessions, withdrawal from the programme or changes in personal circumstances.
If you choose to leave the circle before the end of the year, the full agreed programme fee remains payable.
Locations & Safety
Throughout the year we gather in a variety of carefully chosen spaces, including:
• A moored narrowboat, offering a cosy and intimate setting. Most gatherings involve sitting cross legged on cushions on the floor for extended periods.
• Outdoor natural spaces, which may include woodland, walking, ceremony and occasional wild swimming.
• A seasonal tipi, used only when weather and ground conditions are suitable.
• During the winter months we will gathered at a hired indoor venue if required, for example when the marina is inaccessible due to flooding or other unforeseen circumstances.
By joining the circle, you acknowledge that:
• You are responsible for your own physical wellbeing throughout each gathering.
• You will take reasonable care when moving around the boat, waterside environments and natural landscapes.
• You will follow any guidance given to support the safety and wellbeing of the group.
• You understand that participation in outdoor environments, craft activities and wild swimming carries an element of inherent risk.
Every reasonable care will be taken to create a safe and supportive environment; however, participation is undertaken at your own discretion and risk.
Photography
Occasionally photographs may be taken during gatherings to capture the spirit of our time together. You are always welcome to opt out have any photos shared.
Facilitator Responsibility
My commitment is to hold this circle with integrity, presence and care.
Whilst I will do everything reasonably possible to create a safe, welcoming and supportive environment, I cannot take responsibility for the choices, actions or outcomes of individual participants outside of the gatherings.
To protect the wellbeing of the group, I reserve the right to ask a participant to leave the programme if their behaviour repeatedly compromises the safety, trust or integrity of the circle, including breaches of confidentiality or the shared agreements. This would only ever be considered following open and respectful communication wherever possible.
Changes to the Programme
On rare occasions it may be necessary to alter a venue, activity or date due to severe weather, illness or circumstances beyond my reasonable control.
Should this happen, an alternative arrangement will be offered wherever reasonably possible.
Agreement
By joining this circle, you acknowledge that you have read and understood these agreements and willingly accept them as part of entering this shared community.
Together we create the conditions for a circle that is safe, courageous, compassionate and deeply transformative.

Energy Exchange & Payments
Your place is reserved exclusively for you for the duration of the programme.
As this is a closed circle with limited spaces, your commitment means that another woman is unable to take your place once the programme has begun.
For this reason, all payments are final and non-refundable, including in the event of missed sessions, withdrawal from the programme or changes in personal circumstances.
If you choose to leave the circle before the end of the year, the full agreed programme fee remains payable.