Offerings & Events

Communion, ceremony, and enlightenment are integral to the healing path.
We believe that being with and having others be with us is profoundly powerful.
In community, we are lean into and transform in ways that we cannot — or don’t want to — do alone.

In collaboration with our community of healers, practitioners, and guides Shelterwood Collective offers:
Gatherings & Experiences to cultivate connection, creativity, and vitality
Process & Therapy Groups to foster brave, support spaces for communal grow
Workshops & Trainings to raise awareness and deepen learning
Rituals & Retreats to protect sacred space to integrate mind, body, and spirit

We invite you to gather, commune, and grow with us.

Filtering by: “Gatherings & Experiences”
Hearth | An Emergent Salon Series
Nov
11

Hearth | An Emergent Salon Series

  • The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Hearth begins with the question at the heart of Shelterwood: what does it mean that community is our medicine, and how do we live into it in a digital, fragmented age? Join us for an opening evening of heart-first conversation, questions from the room, and time to linger. Doors open at 6PM for wine or tea.

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Open Studio Process: Engaging Creatively with Images and Words
Nov
13

Open Studio Process: Engaging Creatively with Images and Words

  • In Person - The Studio at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | SHELTERWOOD MEMBERS

Open Studio Process — an invitation to step into creative exploration in community, with creative implements that require low skill yet offer high sensitivity to feeling into what is needed in life’s rhythms as a healing practitioner.

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Kindling: Bookbinding Workshop
Nov
14

Kindling: Bookbinding Workshop

  • The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Join Gitika and Krishna for a hands-on workshop exploring the mindful art of bookbinding. Through a series of grounding, tactile practices, you’ll learn to hand-stitch a thoughtfully crafted, customized notebook to keep or gift, while making space to slow down, create, and connect in community.

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Creative Healers Hub
Nov
15

Creative Healers Hub

  • In Person - The Studio at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS

A monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.

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The Loom
Nov
18

The Loom

  • The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

The Loom is a monthly gathering for founders, placemakers and keepers, creatives, and community builders. For those creating things, holding things down, or dreaming something new into being, this is a space for mutual support, resource sharing, tool swapping, and being in community.

Our September gathering is a conversation on authenticity in business with Julie Mierzwiak of Realfine Coffee and Lynda Lopez.

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Death Cafe
Nov
29

Death Cafe

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Death is something we all share, yet we rarely get the chance to talk about it openly. The Seattle Death Cafe is a cozy, welcoming space where we gather, with tea and treats, to speak freely about death, dying, and what it means to be human.

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Tending the Altar | Oracles & Archetypes
Dec
16

Tending the Altar | Oracles & Archetypes

  • The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Explore the ancient language of symbols, archetypes, and sacred imagery in this special session of Tending the Altar with astrologer, tarot reader, and clairvoyant Megan Skinner. Together, we’ll discover how symbolic imagery has guided spiritual practice across cultures and explore how oracles, archetypes, and intuitive tools can deepen our connection to ourselves. Through teaching, hands-on exploration, and community conversation, we’ll create space to engage with the symbols that speak to us and invite new ways of listening to our intuition.

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Creative Healers Hub
Dec
20

Creative Healers Hub

  • In Person - The Studio at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS

A monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.

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Tending the Altar | Little Altars Everywhere
Oct
28

Tending the Altar | Little Altars Everywhere

  • The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

In this opening session of Tending the Altar, we’ll learn how something small can become a genuine anchor in your daily life. We'll talk through the elements that commonly show up (earth, water, fire, breath; ancestors, intentions, symbols) and what resonates with you. This gathering is held by Nicole Greenwald and will draw from her own altar practices. There will be space for instruction, reflection, connection with others, and hands-on co-creation/experimentation.

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The Loom: On Authenticity with Rhonda Faison
Oct
21

The Loom: On Authenticity with Rhonda Faison

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  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

A conversation on authenticity in business with Rhonda Faison of rōJō Juice. The Loom is a monthly gathering for founders, placemakers and keepers, creatives, and community builders. For those creating things, holding things down, or dreaming something new into being, this is a space for mutual support, resource sharing, tool swapping, and being in community.

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Creative Healers Hub
Oct
18

Creative Healers Hub

  • In Person - The Studio at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS

A monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.

View Event →
Hearth | An Emergent Salon Series
Oct
14

Hearth | An Emergent Salon Series

  • The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Hearth begins with the question at the heart of Shelterwood: what does it mean that community is our medicine, and how do we live into it in a digital, fragmented age? Join us for an opening evening of heart-first conversation, questions from the room, and time to linger. Doors open at 6PM for wine or tea.

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Till Next Tuesday | <span class="sqsrte-text-color--black">ASTRO NIGHT 101</span>
Oct
13

Till Next Tuesday | ASTRO NIGHT 101

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Till Next Tuesday is a monthly gathering for Seattle-area women without children hosted by Erin Hartley, LMFT to explore something new, get creative, and connect in good company. On October 13th TNT kicks off with Astro Night—an informal Astrology 101 with light refreshments, and time to connect with other women without children in the community.

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Definitely Not a Cult
Oct
11

Definitely Not a Cult

  • In Person - The Studio at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Join us for our monthly ritual gathering of bodies and souls, for two hours of ritual, presence, and embodiment. Come with your wild, sacred animal body and your grimy little freak spirit. October 11th we will explore FEAR/DESIRE.

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Art Walk | P.S. We Love You
Oct
1

Art Walk | P.S. We Love You

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

A group exhibition featuring work by Eric Boekelheide, Jane Richlovsky, Ash Kopetzky, Iskra Johnson, Grace Chen & Guinevere Johnson.

Inspired by Pioneer Square, its history, architecture, artists, streets, and the countless stories embedded within them, P.S. We Love You is a celebration of a neighborhood built on its own foundation, one that has long nurtured creativity while continually reinventing itself.

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What We Carry: A Nature-Based Community Grief Circle
Sep
27

What We Carry: A Nature-Based Community Grief Circle

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

In this three-hour circle, we will co-create a container for the grief that lives in our bodies and hearts: grief for personal losses and grief for the state of our world. Drawing from the teachings of Francis Weller, Joanna Macy, and in humble recognition of the human practice of communal grieving across many cultures and traditions, we will weave together explorations of grief through movement, artistic expression, connection with nature, sharing and deep listening.

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Creative Healers Hub
Sep
20

Creative Healers Hub

  • In Person - The Studio at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS

A monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.

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Art Walk | P.S. We Love You
Sep
3

Art Walk | P.S. We Love You

  • The Apothecary at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

A group exhibition featuring work by Eric Boekelheide, Jane Richlovsky, Ash Kopetzky, Iskra Johnson, Grace Chen & Guinevere Johnson.

Inspired by Pioneer Square, its history, architecture, artists, streets, and the countless stories embedded within them, P.S. We Love You is a celebration of a neighborhood built on its own foundation, one that has long nurtured creativity while continually reinventing itself.

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Death Cafe
Aug
16

Death Cafe

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

Death is something we all share, yet we rarely get the chance to talk about it openly. The Seattle Death Cafe is a cozy, welcoming space where we gather, with tea and treats, to speak freely about death, dying, and what it means to be human.

View Event →
Creative Healers Hub
Aug
16

Creative Healers Hub

  • In Person - The Studio at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS

A monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.

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Creative Healers Hub
Jul
19

Creative Healers Hub

  • In Person - The Studio at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS

A monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.

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The Grove: A Community Reading Circle
Jun
23

The Grove: A Community Reading Circle

IN PERSON | FOR EVERYONE

The Grove is curated by collective member, Jill Arndt. Jill is a mental health therapist in Fremont, Seattle. She specializes in working with relationships. She is excited to offer this circle to the community as a fellow journeyer in life! Books offer a space for us to connect and to process (or simply be) with others in the daunting questions we often face as humans who are constantly in relationship with ourselves and others.

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Creative Healers Hub
Jun
21

Creative Healers Hub

  • In Person - The Studio at Shelterwood Collective (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

IN PERSON | FOR PRACTITIONERS

A monthly, in-person gathering space for healers, creatives and activists who are actively pursuing the infusion of creativity and healing in their professional work. This is a free community offering from Return to the Table, a collaboration between Melissa Deeken & Soodeh Montazeri.

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