THE GROVE

Everything below, at every price point. The tiers are about what you can give, not what you receive.

• Holding Space, live, every month, plus the archive

• A new guided audio practice every month, in a library that already has depth

• A journal prompt every week, rotating Story, Body, Mind, Spirit

• The Campfire and the Community Garden, always open

• Discounted workshops and courses

• Job sharing

• An invitation to present what you know, once you have been here ninety days

• Direct access to me, in the threads and in the circle

Sustainers also get a permanent 15% discount, early access to everything, and a quarterly group call.

Fair question, and I want to answer it honestly rather than with adjectives.

Most communities like this are built around one person's expertise, and what you are buying is access to them. This one is built on the assumption that everyone here knows something worth knowing, including you. Members present. Members share jobs. The prompts are exploration, not instruction. I facilitate this. I do not supply it.

A clinician runs it, and tells you plainly that it is not therapy. Most spaces in this world sit at one of two extremes. Either nobody has clinical training and it shows in how people handle each other's hard things, or someone has training and quietly lets the community feel like discount therapy. I am trying to do the harder third thing.

Witnessing over fixing is a trained stance here, not a vibe. Every peer community says it wants to be supportive. In practice, unfacilitated spaces default hard to advice-giving, because that is what people do when they care and do not know what else to offer. Holding a room that does not do that is a skill, and it is the one I bring.

It is deliberately designed against engagement. No streaks. No completion. Nothing expires. Most memberships are engagement-optimized because engagement predicts retention. I chose a worse retention mechanic on purpose, because the alternative would contradict everything I teach about rest.

Async is the design, not the consolation prize. This was built for folx who cannot always gather in person. You are the intended member, not the accommodation.

And here is what it is not. The Grove is not the biggest community you could join, and it is not the most active. If you want daily engagement and a feed that moves fast, you will probably find this place quiet. There is no networking angle and no business outcome. It will not make you more productive.

What it is: a small number of people willing to be honest with each other, once a month in a live room and in between whenever you have it in you. If that sounds like not very much, it might not be for you, and I would rather you know that now than three months in.

No, and I want to be clear about that, because the line matters.

I am a licensed clinical social worker, and everything I bring into this community is shaped by that training. But The Grove is community and education, not clinical care. Nothing here is therapy, assessment, diagnosis, or treatment. There is no treatment plan, no clinical record, and no therapeutic relationship between us.

What that means practically:

a.) I am not tracking your progress or responsible for your clinical outcomes.

b.) What I share here is general, not tailored to your specific situation.

c.) The other members responding to you are peers offering their experience, not professionals offering care.

What The Grove is good at is the thing therapy often cannot give you: other people. Being witnessed by folx who get it. Not having to explain the whole context before you can say the actual thing. That is real, and it is valuable, and it is a different thing than treatment.

No. I am your facilitator, and I take that seriously, but it is a different role with different boundaries.

I know that can feel like a technicality when I am the one making the audio you listen to at 2am. It is not a technicality. A therapeutic relationship comes with protections, obligations, and confidentiality standards that a community space cannot replicate. Blurring that line would not give you more of me. It would give you less protection.