Work Mindfulness Institute™ · Integration Circle
Journey Home spiral

Return Circles

A small virtual integration circle for people doing serious inner work. Body. Story. Memory. Parts. All of it, held together.

A room you can enter from anywhere

The circle is virtual. The connection is real.

Join from home on Zoom, participate live when you can, and return to the recording when you need to catch up or revisit the work.

Live on Zoom

A small, guided circle every other Tuesday at 7 pm Eastern.

Recordings to return to

If you miss a session, the thread is still there.

Materials included

Book, workbook, and pathway cards to support the work between circles.

Forming now for Fall 2026

A grounded place to keep doing the work.

Donation based

choose what you can

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

Begins

September 15 at 7 pm Eastern

Frequency

Every other Tuesday at 7 pm Eastern

Format

45 to 50 minutes, up to 10 people

Includes

Materials and five sessions

Fall sessions: September 15, September 29, October 13, October 27, and November 10. All sessions meet on Zoom at 7 pm Eastern.

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

Integration isn't something you do after a session. It's something you practice every other Tuesday, and every day between.

Return Circles are a small, ongoing 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 · Alternate Tuesdays at 7 pm· Donation based· Materials included

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.

Make a contribution

Pay what you can

Fall Circle · Contribution based

Offer what feels right

Choose a one-time contribution that feels honest and workable for you. Your gift helps sustain the circle, the materials, and the space Keith holds.

  • Access to the Fall Circle on Zoom
  • Five virtual circle sessions
  • A small circle held by Keith
  • Book, workbook, and pathway cards included

Stripe will let you enter the amount that works for you. This is a one-time contribution, not a subscription.

Secure checkout via Stripe. Choose a one-time contribution. There is no monthly subscription and no fixed fee.

Not ready to join?

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 the recurring arc of the circle's work. 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™: Self-guided inner wisdom tool for working the Five Pathways between sessions.
AdamEve
Adam & Eve