Community recovery is a collective effort rooted in care, connection, and mutual support. As part of our commitment to community dignity, our Community Recovery Circles offer safe, intentional spaces for neighbors to process shared challenges, restore hope, and fortify lasting community ties together.
Community Recovery Circles in the Eliot Arts Community
A Community Recovery Circle is a restorative, peer-centered space grounded in deep listening and mutual respect. Rather than a traditional support group, these circles use dignity-infused practices to center community wisdom, honor lived experiences, and disrupt isolation.
Whether navigating personal recovery, collective trauma, neighborhood loss, or systemic barriers, these sessions allow us to heal in relationship with one another.
What is a Community Recovery Circle?
When you enter a recovery circle hosted by our Dignity Team, you can count on an environment built on:
Trauma-Informed & Restorative Spaces: Facilitated with care to ensure emotional safety, non-judgment, and absolute confidentiality.
Shared Leadership: No single expert holds the room. Every voice carries equal weight and value.
Holistic Healing: We honor emotional, spiritual, mental, and community wellbeing.
Voluntary Participation: Speak when you feel moved, or simply sit in supportive silence. You are welcome as you are.
Core Pillars of the Eliot Heals Recovery Circles
Join an Upcoming Recovery Circle
Sign up for any circle that relates to your lived experience. Multiple circles are ok.
Date & Time Focus
August 26, 2026 | 6pm - 8pm
Grounding in the Moment - This Recovery Circle provides a supportive space to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the present moment alongside your community. Guided by empathetic facilitators, participants will explore grounding practices rooted in mutual care and truth.
August 28, 2026 | 6pm - 8pm
Mutual Aid - Grounded in solidarity rather than charity, this circle provides a safe space to share experiences, lean on community support, and build collective strategies for healing. Together, we will explore how mutual aid helps us navigate grief and systemic harm through shared power and care.
August 29, 2026 | 11am - 1pm
Structural Transformation - This Recovery Circle offers a dedicated, healing-centered space to process the impacts of systemic injustice and explore paths toward collective accountability and structural change. Guided by culturally competent facilitators, participants will engage in truthful dialogue, shared reflection, and mutual care as we turn shared grief into transformative community action.