Groups for Compassionate Care & Personal Growth

Groups for Compassionate Care & Personal Growth

Since 2009, Dharma River-Manitou has successfully led, facilitated, and supported diverse groups both indoors and outside in nature. Some of these groups include:  Girls Connect, Resiliency For First Responders, Heart-Centered Healing For Difficult Times, Women and Spirituality, Women's Circles, Camp Manitou and Living Calm in the Chaos for Youth and Caregivers.

Our 2022 fundraising campaign focuses on providing new and continued opportunities for small group to come together both indoors and outside in nature.  There are many benefits to working with individuals in group settings.  Sharing time in groups provides opportunities for individuals to both listen whole-heartedly and to be heard whole-heartedly.  Safe, caring and supportive groups provides an opportunity to connect with others, realize that we're not alone and remind us that others go through similar life experiences.  Coming together in groups help bring people out of isolation and into spaces where they can build relationships and feel they have a safe  place to belong. 

The 2022 Groups for Compassionate Care & Personal Growth campaign fund will go toward lowering the costs for individuals to participate in group sessions, gatherings, and retreats making it affordable for all people.  Funding will go toward partial and full scholarships when needed for group participation.  Campaign funding will help staff develop content and implement group trainings, sessions and retreats both indoors and outdoors in nature.  Content will focus on self-awareness, self-compassion, self care, and developing skills to navigate stress, anxiety and depression.  Group content will focus on heartfelt listening and learning from other participants,  building skills of confidence and self worth and developing tools to cope with difficulties and obstacles and to celebrate and appreciate life's success.

Groups topics include:  Girls Connect, Women's Circle, Boys Connect, Dad's Group, Parenting Together, Group in Nature for Anxiety and Depression and Mindfulness and Movement for Strengthening Mental Health.

We express our great gratitude for your generosity in helping us nurture, support and sustain healthy, compassionate individuals in community.

With love,

Your Friends at Dharma River-Manitou

Additional Information About Dharma River- Manitou Center-

OUR MISSION is to provide practices that support development of healthy mind, body and spirit, accessible to everyone.  We do that through hosting programming that fosters individual and community cultivation of contemplative, movement, and healing arts that serve to promote a compassionate, healthy and safe world community.

We work with people of all ages and backgrounds, supporting open, honest, loving exploration of oneself and provide tools for self awareness and human development over the course of one's lifetime.  

Dharma River-Manitou Center partners with schools, workplaces, social service agencies, community and spiritual organizations, families and individuals.  We work both indoors and outdoors in nature.  We offer and utilize modalities such as: mindfulness, breath-based movement practices (yoga, qi gong, tai chi, kung fu) connecting and listening to one's emotional intelligence and internal compass with body-based somatic practices and Zen studies as diverse pathways for exploration, care for and nurturing of one's authentic self.