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Frog Pond Meetings
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A simple way to gather in stillness, reflection, and human presence.
Frog Pond Community gatherings can be hosted online or in person. You do not need to be a teacher, therapist, or meditation expert. A host simply welcomes people, follows the meeting structure, and helps keep the space safe, simple, and grounded. Start small. A few people are enough. |
What Happens in a Gathering
A Frog Pond Community gathering usually lasts about an hour.
Each meeting includes:
Each meeting includes:
- a brief welcome
- simple group agreements
- the Anchoring in Stillness practice
- quiet journaling with a reflection question
- optional sharing
- a short closing
The Spirit of the Gathering
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These gatherings are not classes, therapy groups, debates, or spiritual performances.
They are simple community spaces for becoming still, listening inwardly, and returning more fully to this life. There is nothing to sell. Nothing to achieve. No one above or below another. We gather. We become still. We return to life together. |
Core Principles
Presence Over Performance
There is nothing to prove here.
Simplicity Over Complexity
Simple practices done honestly are enough.
Listening Over Fixing
We listen without advising, correcting, rescuing, or interpreting.
Participation Over Perfection
You are welcome exactly as you are.
Return to Ordinary
Life Practice is not escape from life, but deeper participation in it.
There is nothing to prove here.
Simplicity Over Complexity
Simple practices done honestly are enough.
Listening Over Fixing
We listen without advising, correcting, rescuing, or interpreting.
Participation Over Perfection
You are welcome exactly as you are.
Return to Ordinary
Life Practice is not escape from life, but deeper participation in it.
Download the Host Guide
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The Host Guide includes the complete meeting format, welcome script, group agreements, sharing guidelines, safety notes, and closing statement.
Download the Frog Pond Community Host Guide |
Download the Practice Card
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The Anchoring in Stillness card gives the four-part practice used in Frog Pond Community gatherings:
Lean into Gravity Center in Your Body Love Yourself & the World Focus in Silence Download the Anchoring in Stillness Practice Card |
Use Dangerous Questions
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Each gathering includes one quiet reflection question.
Hosts may use questions from Tai Sheridan’s book Dangerous Questions: A Journal for Living This Life, available as a free download. Download Dangerous Questions |
Hosting Online or In Person
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Gatherings may happen on Zoom, in a living room, in a library room, in a community space, or anywhere quiet enough for people to sit together.
No special atmosphere is required. No candle, music, altar, or equipment is needed. Just people, a notebook, a timer, and the willingness to gather simply. You don’t need permission to begin. But if you do start a gathering, I’d genuinely love to hear about it. Email Tai→ |
A Note About Safety
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Frog Pond Community gatherings are contemplative community spaces. They are not psychotherapy, medical treatment, crisis support, or emergency mental health services.
Hosts are volunteers and are not acting as therapists or clinical professionals through these meetings. Participants are responsible for their own well-being and participation. Anyone experiencing acute psychological distress or crisis should seek appropriate professional or emergency support. |
Begin Simply
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You do not need permission to begin.
Read the Host Guide. Download the practice card. Invite a few people. Follow the structure. Keep it simple. A small gathering is enough. |
Closing Line
We gather. We become still. We return to life together.
