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Presence & Acceptance Circle

From Thinking into direct experience

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A guided awareness circle where you learn to meet

your experience with presence

instead of resistance

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Online Circle                              In-person Circle (Portland)

1st & 3rd Saturdays of each month          1st & 3rd Saturdays of each month
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Zoom)                                3:00  –  4:30 PM

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Next online circle                                   Next in-person circle

August 1st                                                                    August 1st

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Zoom)                                3:00  –  4:30 PM

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Zoom link will be shared after                             Multnomah Arts Center

you reserve your spot.                                            7688 SW Capitol Highway

                                                                                       Portland, OR 97219​

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A Space to Meet Your Experience — Gently, Honestly, Together

 

Many of us move through life carrying stress, overwhelm, loneliness, anxiety, grief, or emotional fatigue without enough space to simply pause and be present with what is here.

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The Presence & Acceptance Circle offers a gentle and quietly powerful space to slow down, deepen awareness, and relate to our experience with greater compassion, peace, and kindness.

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This is not a space focused on fixing, improving, analyzing, or giving advice.

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Instead, we learn to step out of the thinking mind and into direct experience — into sensing, noticing, allowing, and becoming present with what is already here.

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You are welcome exactly as you are, with no pressure to share.

Some people come to speak.
Some come to listen.
Some come simply to rest from the busy mind.

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All are welcome.

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Together, we create a safe and non-judgmental space for presence, silence, emotional honesty, and real human connection.

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As the mind settles, a different quality of experience becomes available — a shared field of presence that most people rarely experience in everyday life.

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We explore that field together, gently and without pressure.

A space to rest.
A space where nothing needs to be fixed.
A space to feel what is here, together.

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Receive PAC Reflections

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Gentle reflections on presence, awareness, and compassion—delivered about twice a month, with occasional invitations to upcoming Circles.

Email:

Benaz@yahoo.com


Phone/Text:

503-516-6546

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