Circles
A potent space to help you cultivate, explore, and feel nourished along whatever life journey you’re experiencing.
Community GATHERINGS
GATHER. GROUND. GROW.
Join Bewonderment and Sarah Ratermann Beahan in person for intimate sessions for creative seekers. Our mission is to cultivate community through our shared love for self-expression and ritual. The goal is to grow through creative practices, story-sharing, and group facilitation. We will commune around creative practices while fostering a healing space to continue returning to for our overall well-being.
Regular Communion with yourself and your community.
We will gather, commune, center and create. This is a monthly, generative workshop in all senses of the word. We will generate community, connection and inspiration. Each month will have a theme and I, Sarah, your guide, will provide grounding practices, prompts and take-home exercises on this theme.
UPCOMING GATHERINGS
Lindström, MN
Ink Your Intentions:
Manifesting Your 2026
All is Wellness
January 17, 2026
1:00-3:00 PM
Step into the year you want to live. In this workshop we’ll use narrative intention-setting to craft a clear, compelling story for your 2026. Through guided writing exercises you’ll define themes, intentions, and the concrete actions that bring them to life.
We combine creative story-crafting with evidence-based psychological practices—identifying and challenging limiting beliefs, reframing unhelpful patterns, and strengthening new neural pathways through repetition and vivid imagery.
Who it’s for: Anyone ready to move from wishful thinking to intentional living—writers and non-writers alike.
What to bring: A notebook, openness to reflection, and willingness to experiment with new perspectives.
Outcomes: Clarity on what matters, concrete steps to make it real, and a personal narrative you can return to throughout 2026 to stay aligned with your intentions.
What to expect:
Grounding practice: We will kick off our time together with a simple mindfulness practice to create our space.
Themes and Prompts: We’ll discuss the overarching themes of the year using tarot and astrology, and use brainstorming and writing prompts to get your imagination working.
Co-Creation: Your innate wisdom creates the magic of this space. We’ll have time to share, reflect and learn from each other as we explore the monthly theme and activities.
Space Limited to 8
$45
Lindström, MN
discover Your path:
Your Tarot Card of 2026
All is Wellness
January 24, 2026
1:00-2:00 PM
Each year has a tarot energy associated with it based upon its numerology. This card illuminates themes we will feel in the collective for the year. We also have a personal tarot card for the year based on our birthdate.
This workshop explores the collective tarot card for the year and guides participants in calculating and interpreting their personal tarot card of the year. We'll examine the symbolic energies of both cards and discuss how they interact, offering practical ways to work with these themes across the months ahead.
Who it’s for: anyone curious about tarot as a tool for reflection and planning, beginners & experienced tarot readers alike.
What to bring: journal and pen, birthdate information, and a tarot deck if you have one (if not, SRB will have several available to use).
Outcomes: understanding the collective and personal tarot card of the year and how they interplay, exploration of key themes, shadow energy and growth opportunities.
What to expect:
Grounding Practice: We begin by co-creating the space for our community using simple grounding practices led by SRB.
Group Reflection: We learn from each other’s wisdom. We will have a chance to share, explore and connect.
Take Home Prompts: SRB will provide writing prompts for further exploration of the theme on their own.
Space Limited to 8
$33
offered via Zoom
Walking Each other home
Grief + Writing Circle
Wednesdays, 6 - 8 pm CST
April 19 - July 5 2025
“We are all just walking each other home.” ~ Ram Dass
There is power in communion. Writing our stories and holding collective, compassionate space is a kind of alchemy for the wounded heart. When we allow our own unique version of grief to be witnessed, by an attuned, empathetic group, knowing that we are drinking from the same well of sorrow, we begin to alchemize our healing.
In this circle we will:
Learn to give ourselves permission to write, and find safe spaces to do so.
Practice the art of listening and witnessing.
Explore all aspects of our experiences: from joy to sorrow, wonder to anger, dazed to delighted and everything in between.
Allow ourselves to be fully, authentically human.
Write, explore, revise and share a final piece.
Collect our work in a printed collection.
Each session will include a grounding practice, prompts, opportunities to share and reflect, and exercises to work through between sessions.
Attendees need not be writers, but willing to commit to a practice of journaling.
For the sake of group cohesion, we ask that group members commit to attending sessions regularly (not missing more than 2).
Pay What You Can Pricing:
$350/400/450
Bewonderment Circles are built around Three pillars
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Creating is innate, and happens everyday. With intention and attention, our creative practice can support us.
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We are seekers and questioners. We lead with curiosity, whether that’s looking around us or within us.
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We build safe spaces for vulnerable self-expression and creative risk.
Nothing can replace the magic that happens when we sit in a circle with our community.
Whether it’s a table or a campfire, bonds are forged, growth is catalyzed, and empathy is built when we gather together.
why circles?
We are hardwired for connection
It’s in our programming. We don’t just desire connection, we need it to survive. Research tells us that authentic connection improves our health outcomes and supports our mental health. What’s more, as we navigate a world that is grappling with fallout of a global pandemic, political unrest and climate crisis, connection on a micro-level allows us to build toward a world we wish to be in.
wonder inspires openness
When we come together with wonder in mind, we begin to see our world through the eyes of what’s possible. Shifting our thought patterns from certainty to questioning can make space for openings we didn’t realize we available. We are able to let go of toxic judgment and cultivate joyful, openhearted growth.
Ritual
Our culture has slowly divorced itself from meaningful ritual, and yet many of us crave the container and sustenance meaningful ritual provides. Casper Ter Kuile reminds us that to cultivate a ritual, we simply need to show up with attention and intention in a sustained way.
we want to be seen, heard and valued
We desire belonging. Being witnessed is healing. Being seen, heard and valued for our whole selves is nourishment. This means we have space to show up as our best selves of the day—which may look different from day to day, moment to moment. Circles make space for all of the versions of us.
lineage of the circle
Writer, teacher and activist Parker Palmer suggests that our souls are threatened by living a divided life, a life in which we compartmentalize and only show up as parts of a whole. Circles are inspired by Palmer’s Parker Palmer’s Circles of Trust, Mia Birdsong’s How We Show Up and Priya Parker’s principles of The Art of Gathering, among others, we seek to build safe spaces that combat the divided life.
Inner Growth ripples outward
When we dive inward, and explore our inner landscape, we emerge as further developed beings. The more we allow space for our own growth, in communion with others, the more this ripples into our families, friendships, workspaces and community.
HOST YOUR OWN CIRCLE
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HOST YOUR OWN CIRCLE
HOST YOUR OWN CIRCLE ✦ HOST YOUR OWN CIRCLE
Let’s expand this idea together! If you are interested in creating a Circle in your community, please let us know. The possibilities to gather around creativity are endless, but some include writing groups, forest foraging, book clubs, drawing jams, women’s circles, knitting circles, and walking groups.