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Truth Circles

What You’ll Experience

Eight sessions. Eight shifts.
One through-line: learning to speak what’s real.

Format
Live Zoom cohort — 8 weekly sessions
Cohort size
Maximum 12 participants
Duration
8 weeks
Facilitated by
Annie
Next cohort
October 6, 2026
Prerequisites
None — only a willingness to be honest

By the end of Truth Circles, you will:

  • Recognise and interpret your body's emotional signals before the mind has a chance to edit them
  • Name your feelings and underlying needs with clarity, precision, and without self-judgment
  • Communicate honestly using the Body → Feeling → Need → Request framework
  • Receive difficult truths with greater openness and less defensiveness
  • Navigate conflict as a signal — not a verdict — with tools for genuine repair

— INWARD —

You'll develop a foundational literacy in your own emotional and somatic experience — the essential starting point for honest communication.

The first four sessions turn attention inward — to your body, your feelings, your needs, and your voice.

01

Arriving in Your Body

Learning to read the signals your body is already sending — before the mind has a chance to edit them.

In this session, you will:

  • Learn to identify where emotion lives in your body before it becomes a thought
  • Practise somatic awareness as a communication tool
  • Distinguish between physical sensation and emotional interpretation

Topics covered:

  • Somatic awareness and the body as messenger
  • The nervous system's role in emotional communication
  • Body scanning as a daily practice
02

The Language of Feeling

Moving beyond “I’m fine” to name what’s actually true — with precision, without judgment.

In this session, you will:

  • Learn to expand your emotional vocabulary beyond surface-level language
  • Practise naming feelings with specificity and without self-criticism
  • Distinguish between feelings and evaluations (“I feel hurt” vs. “I feel judged”)

Topics covered:

  • Primary vs. secondary emotions
  • The NVC feelings inventory
  • Judgment language vs. feeling language
03

Underneath Every Feeling, a Need

Discovering the unmet need beneath the emotional noise — and why needs are never selfish.

In this session, you will:

  • Learn to trace feelings back to their underlying needs
  • Practise the Body → Feeling → Need sequence
  • Reframe need-awareness as a relational strength, not a vulnerability

Topics covered:

  • Universal human needs (NVC framework)
  • The difference between needs and strategies
  • Unlearning the belief that needs are selfish
04

Speaking Your Inner Truth

Saying what’s real — out loud, to another person — for the first time.

In this session, you will:

  • Learn to articulate your inner experience clearly and without apology
  • Practise speaking truth to a witness in a supported, confidential environment
  • Experience speaking truth as survivable — even when scary

Topics covered:

  • Shame resilience and vulnerability in communication
  • Finding language for what has previously felt unspeakable
  • The pivot from inner knowing to outer expression

— OUTWARD —

You'll turn your inner work outward — learning to make requests, receive honestly, and navigate rupture without retreat.

Sessions five through seven turn the inner work outward — into requests, reception, and repair.

05

Making Requests That Land

Turning needs into asks that invite a yes — without pressure, ultimatum, or apology.

In this session, you will:

  • Learn to formulate clear, actionable requests grounded in genuine need
  • Practise the full Body → Feeling → Need → Request chain
  • Distinguish between a request and a demand

Topics covered:

  • The anatomy of a well-formed request
  • Requests vs. demands (NVC distinction)
  • Communicating requests without over-explaining or apologising
06

The Art of Being Received

Learning to hear hard things with grace — even when it’s uncomfortable.

In this session, you will:

  • Learn to listen for the need beneath another person's words
  • Practise receiving difficult truths without immediately defending
  • Develop the capacity to hold space while remaining emotionally present

Topics covered:

  • Empathic listening vs. reactive listening
  • The physiology of defensiveness
  • Receiving critiques with grace
07

Conflict Without Casualties

Finding your way back to each other, even under pressure.

In this session, you will:

  • Learn to recognise conflict as a signal, not a verdict
  • Practise repair tools for moments of rupture
  • Apply the full NVC framework in a high-stakes communication scenario

Topics covered:

  • Rupture and repair in close relationships
  • De-escalation through needs-based language
  • Grace under fire: applying the framework when it matters most

— INTEGRATION —

You'll consolidate your learning, commit to ongoing practice, and leave with a clear personal communication intention.

The final session weaves everything together and sends you forward.

08

Carrying the Truth Forward

Closing ritual, commitment, and the practices that make this a permanent shift — not just an eight-week experience.

In this session, you will:

  • Reflect on your personal arc across all eight sessions
  • Articulate a concrete communication intention to carry forward
  • Participate in the closing ritual and receive the program's final offering

Topics covered:

  • Integration vs. completion: the difference between ending and beginning
  • Building a sustainable personal communication practice
  • Community commitment and the closing ritual

Ready to begin?

The first Truth Circles cohort begins October 6, 2026.

Founding Member pricing is available until the cohort confirms.

Join as a Founding Member
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