Currently, we offer DualColor Healing Circles in Green/Purple: for those who have been harmed sexually as a young person, and have caused sexual harm to another and Green/Orange: for those who have been harmed sexually as a young person, and are parents or caregivers whose child was harmed sexually or harmed another child sexually. In the future, as we have the Keepers and participant interest, we may add more DualColor Healing Circles.
It is difficult to navigate the healing path when having the experiences of being harmed and harming others.
There is a unique experience for those who identify with more than one color. The participants who identify as Green and Purple or Green and Orange often may not feel entirely safe in either color. For those participants, we offer this DualColor circle.
These are special circles for those who have the personal experiences of two colors. While many people have the experience of more than one color, they usually choose to do one color at a time. They attend the color that resonates most with them at the time.
Sometimes, participants find they struggle to feel comfortable in a single color circle when they have another experience that interferes with focusing on that one color. These DualColor circles hold the complexity of this unique experience so one might travel both paths of healing from harm.
Green/Purple Circles offer structured, relational spaces for those who were sexually harmed as a child and have also caused sexual harm. This intersection is not uncommon and yet it can be difficult to feel fully at home in either Green or Purple circle alone.
Healing from being harmed often asks us to feel its impact and find our anger. Healing from having caused harm asks us to feel our impact on others and step into genuine remorse. Held simultaneously, these two processes can work against each other: guilt quietly undermines anger; explanation softens remorse before it can do its work. Circle creates a space to hold both — without collapsing one into the other. Participants are supported in feeling anger without shame, remorse without self-erasure, and love without denial, building the capacity to hold accountability and compassion at the same time.
Green/Orange Circles offer structured, relational spaces for those who were sexually harmed as young people and are also the non offending parents of children who were harmed or caused harm.
Many Green/Orange participants are holding layered realities and emotions tied to generational harm within their family systems. Parenting and healing within that dual experience asks a great deal of the Green/Orange participant. Circle creates a space to offer healing in community. Participants are supported in feeling anger without shame, remorse without self-erasure, and love without denial building the capacity to hold accountability and compassion at the same time.
Learn more about the structure and process of Healing Circles.
Our program aims to take our participants, approximately 300 per year, and give them the individual healing, the collective understanding and the prevention education to stop child sexual abuse before it begins.