Are you wanting to...

...live fearlessly while making a difference in the world? 
...discover further your truest nature and learn to express this in all settings?
...explore your creativity and discover ways to manifest it?
...share your gift but need help to "get out of your own way"?
...remember your original dream
…open up more to your inherent wisdom with a circle of friends?
...experience the support and enthusiasm gotten in a Circle of Truth?
It's time to share your gift, finish that project, discover further your creative intentions and to fulfill them. To further become who you already and truly are. To live compassionately fearless. 

We invite you to take this initiatory and transformative pilgrimage with us as your guide.  We will take a personal journey through Wheel of Initiation, where you will arrive having initiated a gift into the world (some tangible project). We will explore our inner realms through The Inner Labyrinth from the Clue of the Red Thread to awaken all that waits inside.   Corinna and Julie will take us through the Medicine/Initiatory Wheel, transforming ourselves in real time, in our daily lives.  All that is a potential is awakened from within and manifested outwardly. 
“The Wheel of Initiation takes us out into the diverse directions of life/space. The Initiation leads us in, to the unifying point of source/center. This ceremony requires great courage, the courage to give yourself fully and SIMULTANEOUSLY to Father Sky and Mother Earth. The courage to let spirit tear you apart.”        -Shinzen Young, author of The Science of Enlightenment 

For over 30  years Julie has held  year-long circles of transformation and awakening.  They began in 1989 with her book (Hidden Victims/Hidden Healers) and the eight stage healing program for families of the mentally ill.  She went on to offer Spiritual Journaling and Intuitive Development circles in the Twin Cities into the early 90's. Later she offered the Initiation Course for those ready to discover and initiate their truest spiritual path, to become meaning makers. In response to increased interest she wrote a book based on this year-long course, The Wheel of Initiation.  This year's journey (2022-2023) will use this book as one of our tools. Julie went on to offer Zero Point Circles based on her book, The Zero Point Agreement: How To Be Who You Already Are. Then, in her Red Thread Circles she guided participants on being the leaders and change agents we are meant to be (all within the context of our daily lives.).  This resulted in a book, which came out during the pandemic: The Clue of the Red Thread: Discovering Compassion and Fearlessness during difficult times.  This book was written in collaboration with Parker J Palmer. Julie relies on the collaborative energies of circle, Nature and inner wisdom to guide her in her work with others. All her practices are trauma-informed and her circles are based on her training and studies with Parker J Palmer, Cat Greenstreet, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Clarissa Pinkola Estés,  Santikaro along with other authentic spiritual friends and teachers.  She lives in Mount Horeb with her two furry companions, Lulu and Snickers.

For over 25 years, Corinna has taught and guided people through personal transformation in the wilderness of Vancouver Island, BC. As a therapeutic wilderness guide for youth at risk, she hiked and kayaked some of British Columbia’s most remote destinations.  Diagnosed in 2010 with multiple myeloma, a terminal plasma cell cancer, and no longer able to withstand the rigors of wilderness expedition, Corinna turned her attention to navigating the wild terrains of the soul. Despite a prognosis of 1-3 years to live, Corinna has been dancing with life threatening illness for over 11 years. With her awakened way of seeing the world and through her bond to the forest called Ravenwood, she teaches that when we see and hear the wildness within and around us, we can transform suffering into something life sustaining. Corinna has helped hundreds of people who seek a connection to self and nature to heal and understand their true place in the world. Corinna was given the traditional name Acahak Miskinahk Iskwew, Spirit Turtle Woman. As a Métis woman, wisdom keeper, and ceremonialist, Corinna weaves traditional cultural teachings and Earth-based forms into all her practices.
Her first book: Ravenwood; The Healing Forest: Indigenous Wisdom, Life Threatening Illness, and Awakening the Heart will soon be published and available for your journey. Corinna lives with her husband and son on 40 acres of forest called Ravenwood, on North Vancouver Island, BC.
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"In The Clue of the Red Thread, Julie Tallard Johnson reminds us that we can best navigate uncertain times by joining our inner truth with our words and actions. In ways both poetic and practical, she invites us to make time and space for inward discernment, returning to the visible world better able to help advance the work of love, truth, and justice. I had the privilege of being in dialogue with Julie at several points during the writing of this book, and I can assure you that it is a faithful reflection of Julie's life-work, all of it proven in practice. I urge you not only to read but to follow by finding your own red thread and tracking it into the fullness of life."    -Parker J. Palmer, teacher and activist, author of On the Brink of Everything, Healing the Heart of Democracy,  and A Hidden Wholeness
This year long journey, taken together with others committed to show up, will energize, awaken and bring to the world the best you have to offer.  World into Word & Action is an invitation to listen to those inner nudges, to move through the resistance and join with others to create what is possible for yourself and the world.  Transform resistance and negativity into enthusiasm and positive action; initiate your latent intentions and truest self; Manifest your dreams, your projects and your intentions. 
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​This dynamic journey is taken inward, so that all outward expressions of our truth, creativity and intentions are authentic and effective. We will take the journey of the Inner Labyrinth as we discover, create and realize our greatest potentials in the outer world of manifestation.
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The rooted path

Your Commitment To Transform

This Year of Initiation, Transformation & Manifestation invites us to explore our Original Dreams, together and on our own.  We meet up once a month for an interactive circle, where we move through the Wheel of Initiation and enter the inner labyrinth of transformation and realization. Corinna and Julie will give practices and explorations for the month. In circle we will journey with Corinna as our guide, be given monthly contemplations, writing prompts, practices and personal ceremony. We will share in a circle of Truth (based on Parker J Palmer's Circle's of Trust). Once you register you will be sent a welcome/prep email and more information on the format and agreements in holding these sacred circles. 
  • ONE monthly circle on the 1st THURSDAY's of the Month, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM CST.  VIRTUAL & LIVE, facilitated by Julie & Corinna.  
  • Guest Teachers on other optional evenings  specializing in authentic social media promotion, The Toa of peaceful action, contemplation & readiness for dying, trauma informed yoga, mindfulness meditation, clearness committee, and practical shamanism will share their skills with us.  (These offerings will be on an alternative Thursday night, TBA). 
  • Our spiritual friend and teacher, Molly Chanson will be offering a transformational yoga sequence for each direction of the medicine wheel we move through (4 for the year).  (Click on her name to go to her website)
  • An invitation to participate in a  Dragonfly Healing Quest and ceremony at Ravenwood, Sayward, BC. Nearing the end of our year, an  In-person 9 day Dragonfly Healing Quest and ceremony will take place on RAVENWOOD in Canada June 21st  through the 29th, 2023.  This is an optional (and encouraged) invitation to join in such ceremony. ​
  • Likely In-person fire/circle gatherings a couple times in the year.  For those who can, gather around a fire with Julie in Wisconsin & Corinna in Vancouver Island, BC.  Such details will be worked out as we meet up. 

Registration free/donation of $100.00.  This registration is separate from the monthly donation of $45.00 for Thursday night's circle. (Separate optional donation/dana for live, in person gatherings in June and other optional teachings).  A deposit holds your space as we are limiting this to 20 committed souls. We intentionally make this affordable. Please contact Julie if this amount is a difficulty for you.  We will not turn anyone away who is committed.    Email Julie or Corinna for a FREE consultation before registering, if you like. 
Every project needs a poet. A poet to mirror back in words our shared journey. Our circle’s poet is Melina Kuhn who shared this:  I wrote this on Saturday and felt that I needed to hold onto it for some reason. (This was before she heard about this circle).  As it turns out, I was saving it for this group, this circle, which instantly felt like what I have been searching for. This poem is for and about this circle, I just didn't know it at the time:


When the oldest parts of me reach for you, 
 
Little Bird
 
Even though I know not what to call you
 
By any spoken word
 
I remember 
 
All of the water we have ever had
Is all of the water we will ever have
 
So it is enough to just call each other
 
Familiar

“For me the highest plane of creativity is found in one’s practice, and Julie offers the reader a real means to follow through on one’s creative and spiritual intentions. The read is straightforward and gratifying; the pilgrimage itself a worthwhile, even required engagement for the spiritual hero.” ― Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art and The Legend of Bagger Vance

“The Wheel of Initiation carries a powerful spirit of love and wisdom shared in an absolutely fresh, humble, and beautiful way. I was moved from the first words I read. It’s clear that Julie Tallard Johnson walks her talk.” ~ Tav Sparks, author of Movie Yoga and The Wide Open