HOSTING OUR EDGES
Transforming Life’s Edges into Pathways of Belonging and Becoming
Beginning January 15, 2026
A Year-Long Virtual Journey with Acahk Miskinahk Iskwew (Corinna Stevenson, MA)
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Julie Tallard Johnson, MSW, LCSW
Throughout life, we encounter edges—turning points, contradictions, transitions, and thresholds. These can be moments of fear or resistance while they also offer us rich terrain for transformation. In this year-long live, virtual gathering, we invite you to host these edges with reverence and courage.
Hosting Our Edges is a monthly live gathering led by Corinna Stevenson (Acahk Miskinahk Iskwew) and Julie Tallard Johnson, guiding us through the turning of the seasons and the inner landscapes of our lives. Drawing on the practices of active contemplation, Indigenous wisdom, nature-based awareness, and spiritual inquiry, this circle supports each of us in moving forward—no matter our external circumstances. Everything that shows up in life becomes workable. Together, we’ll learn to trust our own experience, stumble forward with grace, and uncover a shared path of meaning and mystery. Hosting Our edges gives us a place to practice—individually and in community.
We will meet live, THE SECOND AND LAST THURSDAY each month on Zoom, beginning January 15, 2026, 4PM Pacific/6PM CST, with guided practices, teachings, and contemplative dialogue. Together we will explore those inner and outer edges that arrive with each season, inviting a fuller conversation with what is possible for us individually and collectively. The first meeting of each month will be 2.5 hrs long, and the second meeting 1.5 hours. Hosting Our Edges is for anyone seeking soulful companionship, resilience in uncertain times, and a deeper relationship with the paradoxes of life. You are welcome as you are.
Let the edge become the turning.
Together We'll Explore
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Turning points as thresholds of possibility
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Contradictions as invitations to paradox and wholeness
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Belonging as an edge in itself—how to host ourselves and one another.
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How our inner landscape determines how we experience and interact with our outer landscape
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Practices from my Clue of the Red Thread, by Julie Tallard Johnson & Ravenwood the Healing Forest, by Corinna Stevenson
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How to transform despair into compassionate action and how awaken our resilience, interconnectedness, and love for the world.
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Mentorship and Eldering
Hosting Our Edges at a Glance
Winter: The Edge of Knowing
Winter invites us to the edge of knowing, where quiet and reflection reveal insight. Through Elder guidance, pause, listen, and learn to navigate life’s edges with clarity, presence, and care. Together we will explore:
Cultivating Calm
Awareness
Trusting the Process
Honouring Our Ancestors & the Sacredness of Life
Wisdom & Elderhood
Spring: The Edge of Becoming
Spring calls us to the edge of growth, where new life pushes through the soil of possibility. Guided by natural wisdom, pause, notice, and nurture emerging ideas, relationships, and insights. Here, curiosity and openness help us step into transformation with care and attention. Together we will explore:
Welcoming the Happiness of a Child
Vision, Spirit, Renewal, Inspiration
Awakening
Springing Into Action
Innocence
Summer: The Edge of the Wild Heart
Summer invites you to the edge of vitality, where energy and creativity flow freely. We pause to observe, listen, and engage fully with life’s abundance. Explore your edges, celebrate expression, and embrace the courage to live with authenticity and presence. Together we will explore:
Embodied Presence
The tension of Joy & Fear
Sharpened Perspectives
Invisible Thresholds of Growth
Wildenss & Vitality
Fall: The Edge of Letting Go
Fall draws us to the edge of reflection and letting go, where the richness of experience meets the quiet of release. Guided by the wisdom of Fall, we pause and gather insights, honor what has been, and prepare to share our gifts. Here, reflection and gratitude illuminate the path forward.
The Threshold Betweeen Life and Rest
Memory, Soul, Dreams
The Wall of Grief & Personal Peace
Internilization of Knowledge
Empathy
Harvesting our Stories & Celebration
Death and Metapmorphosis
Initiation
Offering Our Gifts
A Small Circle Rooted in Relationship
We believe that real transformation happens in relationship, both with others and with the sacred. That’s why we’re limiting Hosting Our Edges to just 12 to 16 participants. This intimate circle allows us to move slowly, listen deeply, and support each other in ways that larger groups simply cannot.
This size creates a safe and sacred space for genuine connection and meaningful participation. Each person will be seen, heard, and valued.
Together, we will co-create a rhythm of belonging and transformation that honors the mystery of the journey and the medicine of community.
Our group sharing is informed by Circles of Trust and the Principles of Council, practices for inquiry and transformation which are both elegantly simple, remarkably powerful, and grounded in the premise that we are, at the same time, different, similar, and unified within a larger whole. Sitting in circle (both literally and figuratively), we have different views of the center and its edges. Each participant contributes to the creation of the field. Ultimately, Council practice becomes not merely a technique separate from the rest of our lives, but a way of life.
Your Investment for this Year-Long Journey
Sliding Scale /Tiered Access (Inclusive, with equity built in)
The wholeness and integrity of our cirlce of happens from the moment the group comes together, Your commitment to the entire program is necessary.
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Registration: $225 for all tiers
Space is limited. Please register early to avoid disappointment. This is a one time registration fee for all. Monthly payments are in addition
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Monthly Payments:
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Supported Tier: $45/month – for those with limited income
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Sustaining Tier: $55/month
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Supporting Tier: $95/month – helps fund scholarships and equity. Reach out to us if you would like to apply for scholarship.
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For guidelines on using the sliding scale, click here.
About Julie Tallard Johnson
Julie Tallard Johnson, MSW, LCSW, is a licensed psychotherapist, spiritual mentor (Inner Path Mentoring), writing mentor, and the author of ten books on personal transformation, including The Zero Point Agreement and The Clue of the Red Thread, both of which serve as foundational texts for this year-long journey.
Julie has maintained an active meditation and writing practice since the age of sixteen, grounding her personal and professional life in deep reflection and embodied awareness. She has completed extensive training in mentoring and group facilitation through the Center for Courage and Renewal and other professional programs, integrating narrative healing, contemplative practice, and somatic awareness into her work.
For over four decades, Julie has walked alongside individuals as they navigate the edges of loss, identity, purpose, and spiritual awakening. As a known empath and experienced mentor, she creates spaces of deep listening, soulful inquiry, and radical appreciation—places where participants feel seen, supported, and inspired to live from their own inner truth.
Julie believes in the transformative power of gathering in circle—coming together in safe, dynamic, and intentional spaces to share our stories, witness one another, and uncover our deepest insights and intentions. She trusts that transformation emerges when we commit to inner work, collective reflection, and reclaiming our true place in the world through story and awareness.
Her work includes leading seasonal virtual and in person retreats, writers’ circles, and mentoring sessions focused on healing, creative expression, and spiritual embodiment. Her Substack newsletter, The Dangerous Old Woman (and Writer’s Sherpa) explores the intersections of aging, activism, soul work, and creative resilience.
Julie is passionate about mentoring people to turn life's contradictions and edges into portals of clarity and connection. She invites you to join her in Hosting Our Edges—a shared path of insight, compassion, and belonging.
🌿 Learn more at: julietallardjohnson.com
✍️ Follow her writing on Substack: https://substack.com/@writerssherpa?utm_source=user-menu
About Corinna Stevenson (Acahk Miskinahk Iskwew)
Corinna Stevenson, B.Ed, MA Transpersonal Psychology, known in her Métis lineage as Acahk Miskinahk Iskwew (“Spirit Turtle Woman”), is a respected Métis Elder, ecopsychologist, holder of ceremony, and award-winning author of, Ravenwood: The Healing Forest.
For over 25 years, Corinna has supported individuals through personal and spiritual transformation in the ancient forests of Vancouver Island. Following a terminal cancer diagnosis in 2010, she deepened her work within the healing wilds of inner life—showing that suffering and uncertainty can be transformed into living guidance and rooted beauty.
Corinna holds a BA in Education (McGill University) and an MA in Transpersonal Psychology with a concentration in Ecopsychology (Naropa University). She was recognized with a Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2003 and has contributed to journals on rites of passage and mental health. Corinna is also a recognized facilitator of Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects, a dynamic framework for personal and collective transformation rooted in deep ecology, systems thinking, and spiritual wisdom.
Grounded in a regenerative environmental ethic, Corinna models how to live a good life within the ecosystems of self, community, and earth, even amid uncertainty and change.
Join Corinna in Hosting Our Edges, as she brings her luminous heart and ancestral wisdom into our shared virtual circle. Through her presence, we are invited to meet our own edges—internal and external—with joy, courage, humility, and tenderness.
Learn more about Corinna's work here:
Together, Julie and Corinna create nurturing environments rooted in safety, respect, and soulful inquiry, guiding participants through inner and outer edges with compassion and courage. Their collaborative work embodies trauma-informed principles by fostering trust, providing emotional safety, and empowering individuals to transform pain into growth within a supportive community. Through their combined wisdom, they inspire a profound sense of belonging, resilience, and hope.
Resources
Click here for more information on Hosting Our Edges: A Trauma-Informed Journey into Wholeness
Program Resources for Registered Participants