An online mycelium of mushroom medicine facilitators, growing together as humans, spaceholders and conscious business owners. Held by Zori Tomova & Sam Sohmer
JOIN AN INTIMATE GROUP OF MUSHROOM MEDICINE FACILITATORS WITH VARIOUS BACKGROUNDS coming together to inspire and support each other in what is present in our lives and work with the mushroom spirit. OUR WAITLIST IS OPEN – fill in the form & You’ll be the first to know when we launch.
Weekly live circles with a group of carefully selected peers, where you hold others and are held in what is alive for you as a challenge, edge or exploration as a human, spaceholder & conscious business owner.
We come together to discuss, support and inspire each other in evolving our conscious service and relationship with the Mushroom Spirit. We listen together to what it wishes to communicate to and thru us at this time.
Attuning to ourselves, the Mushroom Spirit and what we are encountering in our clients work in order to learn and grow with our direct experience. Expanding from and beyond our pre-existing training.
We meet each other in the vulnerability and fullness of our personal and shared experience. We invite you not as a student, but as a co-creator, leader and participant in generating the value this space brings to you, the group and the Earth at large.
We cultivate a community space shaped by strong values and the unique flavour of consciousness grown thru our work with the Mushroom Spirit. We welcome the inspiration & convergence of a richness of traditions and approaches to working with it.
We help one another go outside of the soup of cultural conditioning in how we approach the Mushrooms, so we can stir it together in new ways. This also includes exploring our personal experiences and the evolution of our relationship with the Mushroom Spirit.
Widening Circles Core Question
JOIN AN INTIMATE GROUP OF MUSHROOM MEDICINE FACILITATORS WITH VARIOUS BACKGROUNDS COMING TOGETHER TO INSPIRE AND SUPPORT EACH OTHER IN WHAT IS PRESENT IN OUR LIVES AND WORK WITH THE MUSHROOM SPIRIT. OUR WAITLIST IS OPEN – FILL IN THE FORM & YOU’LL BE THE FIRST TO KNOW WHEN WE LAUNCH.
A) A psilocybin mushroom guide, practitioner, facilitator with at least 2 years of experience in holding space for others
OR…
B) Just getting started with facilitating mushroom sessions, but have at least 5 years of professional experience with other spaceholding modalities (e.g. therapy, healing, counselling, etc.).
AND…
✓ have been sitting with the medicine yourself in your own healing process.
✓ are actively working with clients in 1:1, group or community settings.
✓ are a conscious business owner and/or someone who has a high degree of autonomy and creative space in providing your services.
✓ are devoted to serving from deep heart-centered presence that empowers your clients to grow and find their own wisdom.
✓ resonate with our community values of aliveness, authenticity, listening, interbeing, vitalness and emergence.
✓ are ready and willing to commit to our 6 month journey with one another and participate in a spirit of generosity and reciprocity with a group of exceptional humans and professionals.
JOIN AN INTIMATE GROUP OF MUSHROOM MEDICINE FACILITATORS WITH VARIOUS BACKGROUNDS COMING TOGETHER TO INSPIRE AND SUPPORT EACH OTHER IN WHAT IS PRESENT IN OUR LIVES AND WORK WITH THE MUSHROOM SPIRIT. OUR WAITLIST IS OPEN – FILL IN THE FORM & YOU’LL BE THE FIRST TO KNOW WHEN WE LAUNCH.
Widening Circles (WiCi) is an online mycelium of heart-centered spaceholders, empowering one another through peer support, cross-pollination, community and following what is ALIVE. We anchor in the values below to co-create a space we can return to and replenish from for the unique work each of us is contributing to humanity’s Great Turning towards more loving ways of being with self, other and nature.
"What I value about Widening Circles is that it is agendaless, yet there is space and intention for professional development. It is moving to be deeply seen in my embodied journey of that. And to trust that I won't be pushed more than clarity naturally pushes me." R. K., United States
"I keep being inspired by our group, by the skillshares and EVERYTHING! And amazing things keep happening. I'm becoming ever more courageous, daring to BE so much more, and showing up as a human being more than ever in my work. So thank you SOOO much, you're doing amazing. I appreciate this space and you all so so much." M. C., Germany
"Feeling more human and deserving of being cared for, by coming together with other carers that need to be cared for. I'd like to celebrate the visibility of parts of myself (and others) that are normally kept aside. As a carer who's not used to having a space to be cared for and feel part of a group, the Widening Circles has allowed me to first witness this aspect of myself and, slowly to see and bring it to other's visibility, diminishing the guilt for its presence and hopefully heading towards accepting and integrating it. Thank you for creating this space! <3" A. S., Romania
"Somehow I'm taking this group more seriously than I have done with other groups in the past. It seems to represent for me 'humanity' and 'other'. It feels big and significant, like meeting a whale or something. Sometimes the old habitual ways of relating come up and I feel distant and see the group as separate from me, as a task or burden to 'deliver them what they want from me' and free myself off. And then again I recognise the freedom being present again, realising I chose this group deliberately and I'm not made to do it's bidding, I'm free with every single one of you. Then I get this majestic 'whale-encounter' feeling again where the group comes alive and I'm even part of it! Then it feels new again and I feel touched, honoured, scared, even a little bit devotional in moments, which surprised me. I celebrate all of this, I love the feeling that it matters, and also that I'm leaning into my edge." B. L., The Netherlands
"Widening Circles has been at once both inspirational and healing. Being in a space with other spaceholders I’ve felt seen, supported and connected. We’ve experienced everything from deep grief to joyful playfulness together. I’ve also received new perspectives which have changed my way of approaching my life and business. The facilitators have been amazing, holding the space with softness and dedication. Profoundly grateful!" R. W., Austria
JOIN AN INTIMATE GROUP OF MUSHROOM MEDICINE FACILITATORS WITH VARIOUS BACKGROUNDS COMING TOGETHER TO INSPIRE AND SUPPORT EACH OTHER IN WHAT IS PRESENT IN OUR LIVES AND WORK WITH THE MUSHROOM SPIRIT. OUR WAITLIST IS OPEN – FILL IN THE FORM & YOU’LL BE THE FIRST TO KNOW WHEN WE LAUNCH.
Widening Circles came into being in 2021 with the intention to connect like-hearted peers in a co-created community space with an emphasis on essence, authenticity, and integrity. In the last two years, we have been joined by more than 30 experienced spaceholders from all over the world with backgrounds in therapy, coaching, circling & relational leadership, plant medicine, children’s work, VIP therapy clinics and consulting.
In this latest edition, we move our attention from spaceholding as a general practice towards those called to serve their clients and communities with the Mushroom Medicine. The space will be held by Zori Tomova and Sam Sohmer, who connected through the play of spirit, the work of Martin Prechtel, their shared appreciation for music, beauty, nature and indigenous culture, and a dedication to conscious service with the Mushroom Spirit. Zori and Sam continue to feed the core of their relationship with a deep mutual respect, authenticity, and love, reflecting the essential qualities that will provide the foundation of our shared space together.
We are excited to connect with those tending this powerful and important bridge between human, fungi, nature beings and other worlds, as we hold an intention to deepen our consciousness through the support of both individual and collective explorations as spaceholders.
Zori Tomova is passionate about serving the sacredness of life by creating spaces to deepen our connection with self, other and nature. Over the last 6 years, she’s been fully committed to this path as a conscious relating guide, shamanic practitioner and community cultivator. Originally from Bulgaria, with an MSc in Engineering Business Management from Warwick University UK & background in entrepreneurship, her journey has taken her to Bali, Peru and Guatemala, where she currently lives & serves medicine on the shore of Lake Atitlan. It is on Mayan lands that her professional work with the Mushroom Spirit emerged 2 years ago, based on recommendations by her friends and community. She’s been honoured to serve it in intimate nature-based settings ever since, working with individuals, couples, families and small groups of friends. In that, she blends her background in deep transformational coaching, inner dance (intuitive energy work) and authentic relating/circling with ceremony inspired by the local culture that she received as part of her initiation as a Cacao Guardian in a Mayan Tzutujil tradition. She is devoted to bringing the Earth back to Life in human awareness through opening our eyes and senses to the wisdom of nature beings as part of the medicine spaces she holds.
Sam Sohmer is called to co-create spaces of health within community that provide opportunities for deeper connection, authenticity, and agentive participation within the unfolding creation of beauty that is Life. He is a holistic counsellor and an experienced mushroom medicine facilitator of 8 years based in Nevada City, CA. He is trained in the Hakomi Method, a body-centered psychotherapy approach based on mindfulness and embodied self-awareness. He holds an MA in East-West Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, at which he received a Spiritual Counseling Certificate with emphases in archetypal psychology, Eastern spiritual traditions, and nature-based therapy approaches. He is also formally trained in sacred and ceremonial methods of accessing expanded states of consciousness for healing, as well as cranial sacral therapy and intuitive touch and bodywork. His work is informed by his personal engagement with music and sound, meditation, yoga and breath-work. He very much enjoys working with clients in the outdoors, facilitating deeper connection with nature through ritual and working with the inherent symbolism and life force energy of the natural world.