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Return Circles

Return Circles are currently paused. No new virtual circle is scheduled.

A room you can enter from anywhere

The circle is virtual. The connection is real.

The virtual offering is paused for now. This page remains available as background on the work and a place to share your interest.

No current meeting schedule

No new virtual circle is scheduled at this time.

A paused offering

Keith may share updates if the offering returns.

Questions welcome

Use the interest form below to contact Keith directly.

Currently paused

A grounded place to keep doing the work.

No new circle scheduled

check back here for updates

Return Circles are for people navigating trauma, transition, recovery, relationship patterns, or psychedelic integration who want steady, honest support and reflection.

Status

Currently paused

Schedule

No new virtual circle scheduled

Questions

Contact Keith below

Updates

Shared here if it returns

There are no upcoming dates or open enrollment at this time.

This is coaching and peer support, not psychotherapy, diagnosis, prescribing, medication management, dosing, clinical treatment, or crisis care.

The circle is paused, and there is no new meeting schedule at this time.

Return Circles have been a small virtual space, held by Keith, where all the work converges. The somatic tools. The parts. The Hero's Journey map. The Five Pathways. The stories you carry, the armor you built, the exile you've lived, and the ancestors whose patterns live in your body alongside your own.

This isn't a course with a beginning and an end. It's a container, small by design, honest by necessity, for people who are serious about the journey home.

· A small circle· Virtual offering currently paused· No new dates scheduled· Contact Keith to register interest

What happens in a session

  1. 01Grounding and a brief breath practice
  2. 02A check-in from each member
  3. 03One shared theme or inquiry
  4. 04Reflection through parts, body, and story
  5. 05A practical practice for the next two weeks

A good fit if you are

  • Ready for steady support, not a quick fix
  • Open to honest reflection and shared practice
  • Able to participate respectfully in a small group
  • Looking for coaching and peer support

This circle is not a substitute for licensed psychotherapy, medical care, crisis support, or other clinical treatment.

The virtual circle is currently paused

No new virtual circle is scheduled.

There is no contribution or enrollment available right now. If you would like to ask a question or register your interest, contact Keith below.

Keith will share any future updates on this page; no dates are being announced at this time.

Have a question or interest?

Ask Keith a question or register your interest. He will follow up personally.

PRESENCEASPIRATIONENVIRONMENTMINDBODYSPIRITFUELRECHARGERELATIONSHIPS

Each dimension feeds its opposite across the wheel. Aspiration needs Spirit, Environment provides Fuel, Mind needs Recharge, Body needs Relationships. All four meet at Presence, the center of it all.

What You Bring to the Circle

Stress & nervous system patterns

The body keeps the score, and the circle is where you read it.

Trauma & unresolved memory

Old wounds held in the body, stored below language, waiting to be witnessed.

Relationship dynamics & projections

The patterns you keep meeting in others, which began inside.

Stories & meaning-making

The narratives that formed early and still run the show.

Distortions & the House of Mirrors

Beliefs that were once protective and have become prisons.

Exile, armor & the inner sanctuary

Parts of you that went underground, and the walls that kept them there.

Ancestral memory & inherited patterns

What was carried before you, in the body, in the family, in the blood.

The parts: body, mind, spirit, soul

IFS-informed inquiry into every dimension of who you are.

The Map

The Five Pathways of Return are part of the circle's contemplative framework. themes we return to as life moves through us.

01
Map of Exile · Where did you leave yourself?
02
Wall of Armor · What have you built to stay safe?
03
Inner Sanctuary · Finding ground: body, breath, presence.
04
House of Mirrors · The stories that shape what you see.
05
Journey Home · Returning to the parts you left behind.

The Initiation Package

Every member begins with the same foundation: the materials that make the circle's work possible.

Return of the Exiled Child: Keith's primary book on the Exiled Child framework, the foundational text for the circle.
Return of the Exiled Child Workbook: Companion exercises for nervous system regulation, emotional literacy, and the Five Pathways.
Journey Home Pathway Cards™: A self-guided inner wisdom tool for working with the Five Pathways.
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