​This time we're putting up our Reflection Pop-up at The Commons SF's Common Ground Fest 2024, a mini street fair in Golden Gate Park!

​RSVP to the Common Ground Fest to see the location.

​Stop by to experience our Reflection Stand and Listening Circle:

​Reflection Stand

​The Reflection Stand is a station where you can write and post up a joy or a sorrow. You can also read and honor your neighbors’ joys and sorrows by dropping a well-wishing pebble. It’s a way for the community to honor itself. Read more about it here — better yet, come experience it yourself!

​Stop by anytime from 12pm–4pm for a few minutes. No registration required. You'll find us somewhere in the park, usually under one of the big trees on the north side of the park.

​Listening Circle

​Near the Reflection Stand, we will also form a Listening Circle, where we pass around a talking stick for you to share an experience you wish to honor.

​Start and End

• ​Join when a round starts every half-hour: 12:30pm, 1pm, 1:30pm, 2pm, 2:30pm, 3pm

• ​Leave at any time for any reason.

• ​Rounds will wrap up a few minutes before the next start time.

​Listening

• ​Listen when you don’t have the talking stick/item. Honor others’ human experiences by making space for it. No questions here – supportive nonverbal gestures only.

​Sharing

• ​You may speak when you have the talking stick/item. Honor a human experience you’re holding by giving voice to it. (Keep under ~3 minutes.)

• ​Say what needs to be honored. Joys, sorrows, and everything in between are welcome here.

• ​Speak from your own heart. Not a time for debate, advice, problem-solving or intellectualization. No “cross-talk.”

• ​You can also choose not to speak, and hold whatever you need in silence.

• ​Pass the talking stick to your left when you’re done.

​​​San Francisco Contemplarium

​Presented by the San Francisco Contemplarium, creating space in our city for honoring our human journey, through programming, physical objects and spaces, capacity-building, and facilitation.