healing circle
Group recovery ritual
A healing circle is a group gathering, often seated in a circle, where participants share experiences and offer mutual support for emotional or spiritual recovery.
The practice draws from Indigenous traditions and appears in therapeutic settings, addiction recovery, and grief support: The community organized a healing circle after the tragedy.
The format emphasizes listening without judgment and collective presence rather than individual advice-giving.
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- sweat lodgeHeated structure for ritual purification
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- sacredWorthy of reverence
safe space · community · communal support · drum · smudge · sage · prayer · elders · ancestors · spirit guides · medicine · wholeness · support · trauma · recovery · letting go · emotional release · unity
- reconciliationreconciliation, reconcile, reconciled, reconciling, making up
- ritualsritual, rite, ceremony, sacrament, blessing
- healing ritualsreiki, laying on of hands, aura cleansing, laying on hands, energy work
- native spiritualitymedicine man, sacred ceremonies, native rituals, vision quest, sweat lodge
- shamanismshamans, shaman, spirit guide, medicine man, medicine woman
- tribal healingmedicine man, medicine woman, curandero, herbalist, bush doctor
healing circlesolitary confinement
Isolated imprisonment in cell
individual therapy · isolation ward · electroshock therapy · psychoanalysis · private session
healing circlelynch mob
Crowd executing without trial
torture chamber · hate group · gang assault · interrogation room · kangaroo court
healing circlefiring line
Row of shooters
pile-on · ostracism · shunning · public shaming · social exclusion
healing, circle, heal, heals, healed, healer, healers, health, healthy