🌱 Foundations: A Check-In on Belonging

🌱 Foundations: A Check-In on Belonging

A 3-week online IFS journaling journey | Weekly constellations | July 2025

You think of foundations as fixed. But everything we build on—our roles, identities, relationships—is in motion. This is an invitation to pause, listen, and reconnect to what truly holds you.

What is this?

A 3-week guided journaling and group process to reflect on your sense of belonging and foundation—in yourself, your relationships, your lineage, and the wider world.

Whether you’re feeling uprooted, in transition, or simply seeking clarity, this space is for checking in with what you truly rely on—and where you might want to allow more (or less) belonging.

How it works

• 🌀 Three live Zoom sessions (1 per week)
• ✍️ Journaling prompts every 3–4 days (using IFS-inspired inner listening)
• 🌐 Weekly online group constellations to explore core themes

IFS = Internal Family Systems, a gentle approach to exploring your inner world
Constellations = experiential processes that help uncover hidden patterns in family, relationships, or culture

What we’ll explore

You’ll reflect on five core areas of belonging:

• Self – How do you relate inwardly? Are there parts of you left out?
• Close Relationships – How do you experience connection (or disconnection) one-to-one?
• Family & Community – What is inherited, what is chosen, and how do you stand with both?
• Ancestry & Culture – What legacies support or shake your sense of place?
• The World & Spirit – How do you feel in relation to the larger whole?

This is a space to slow down and listen to the deeper movements in your life. Not to fix—but to become more aware of the stories and parts that shape your sense of rootedness.

Why Foundations? Why Now?

You build on foundations. But when life changes—relationships end, roles shift, systems collapse—those foundations can tremble. That shaking can bring anxiety or confusion. This process helps you trace the roots of those tremors.

Sometimes it’s enough just to see what’s there.
Sometimes something deeper wants to speak.
Sometimes, we can do something to help.

We’ll ask:

• How are my foundations, really?
  What beliefs, relationships, or roles have I been standing on? Are they still true?
• Where do I feel belonging—and where might I allow more?
  Where am I seen, safe, and part of something real? Where am I holding back?
• What have I outgrown?
  What roles or identities no longer fit? What can I release to make space for what’s next?

A Note from Ryan

I created this offering after a period of deep personal transition. Years ago, I lost a long-standing spiritual community I had helped build. A shift in leadership and energy left me with a difficult choice—stay and compromise something vital, or leave and feel untethered.

I chose to leave.

That rupture shook my foundations—but it also showed me this: belonging isn’t static. We move in and out of it. We lose it. We find it again. This course is about meeting those shifts with more awareness and compassion.

Who is this for?

Anyone curious about:

• Inner parts and emotional patterns
• Journaling as a path of self-reflection
• Group process and deeper inner work
• Cultivating clarity and connection during times of change

No prior experience in IFS or constellations needed—just a willingness to reflect.

📅 Dates & Times

Start Date: Monday, 30 June 2025
Live calls: Mondays, 6–8 PM SAST (South Africa time)  Im opening an additional group for US time zones. 
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2nd Start Date: Saturday 5th for PST time zone @ 8:30 am. 

💬 Booking

Cost: $50 or pay what you can (by donation).

Spots are limited to keep the group small and intimate.
To join, contact Ryan:
📧 ryanklette@gmail.com
📱 WhatsApp: +27 82 552 0619

Participant experience:

…my recent experience of participating in Ryan’s IFS short journaling group was a great place for me to revisit and recommit to my writing practice. As someone who usually shies away from this type of self reflection, I found this an incredibly supportive experience within a small group ably guided and prompted by Ryan’s observations both in our group zooms and written material to read on Substack. An additional bonus for me was having some Enneagram chat within our sharing – this really helped me pull together my enneagram learnings from decades back and use it to help my current IFS experience.

Huge appreciation to Ryan and my work group ✨ 

Rosie G