Grey Space

Processing and tending to the impact of a black & white faith

New cohort launching July 28, 2026

Registration extended! Please sign up by July 21, 2026

  • Recognizing that the faith you once held no longer fits anymore and in fact, may be hurting you, can be an incredibly lonely process. Because the communities you  were once a part of no longer have room for you or no longer feel safe, it can sometimes feel like you’re on your own. But the beautiful truth is that you are never alone and that what you’re experiencing makes sense and lots of other people are experiencing something similar. 

    I created Grey Space to try and meet you right where you are and build a community where you belong simply because you’re there and all of your questions, doubts, wounds and changing beliefs also belong and are held with so much love and reverence. There is great power in telling the truth of our experience and being witnessed in it. The power to heal and to rebuild trust with your own spirit with your own story; the power to release that which no longer serves you and to imagine anew; the power as one past participant put it to create hope together. 

    Because that’s what we’re doing in this space - creating hope that a different way might be possible than the one we inherited or lived. No matter what that ends up looking like for you, my deepest hope is that you’ll leave Grey Space a bit more at peace and ready to move forward into the exciting unknown of your own journey.

“Grey Space gave me a place to share openly and honestly about the way I felt in my journey with spirituality. It helped me find clarity in a very confusing space. Alison deserves a 10/10 for supporting, moderating, and encouraging discussion in the group and creating a safe space to share your thoughts.”

— Ryan

“I feel more hopeful for the future, more rooted in my relationship with God, and at greater peace with my spirituality. Grey Space is a truly safe and open space—no agenda, no pressure—and that’s something I’ve never been able to say about a space for spiritual exploration before.”

— Skye

“Grey Space has been transformative for me. Such a safe, inclusive, welcoming space to bring my full self & ask all the hard questions that other faith-oriented spaces often turn away from."

— Annie

“Grey Space has been the most life- giving community for me. When I joined, I was deep in faith-deconstruction mode. Sharing those intimate spiritual details with people on similar journeys was deeply legitimizing, and being regularly smothered with love and wisdom by them was deeply relieving. Joining this group was certainly an inflection point in the exhilarating spiritual upswing I've experienced in the past year.”

— Jake

The Journey

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We will acknowledge and name the harm that exists in faith spaces. We will explore frameworks to help give language, insight, and validation to the pain you experienced.

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We will first ground ourselves in resilience practices, building a toolkit of collective resources that we can access when we need support.

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We will honor our grief and the pain we have carried through a grief ritual.

We will reflect on and explore the spiritual realities within our faith formation, parsing out what you were handed and want to release and what parts of your spiritual understanding still feel like yours.

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We will integrate what we have processed throughout our time together and look ahead to where your soul might be leading you next.

What You Can Expect

Curated Prompts & Activities

Every component of Grey Space works together to cultivate reflection, to validate your experience and offer frameworks for understanding it, and to help you process while still remaining resourced. Some weeks we will do parallel play activities and others we will share reflections through a structured circle process. You will always know what to expect and what’s coming next.

In Grey Space, there are no right answers or a particular spirituality you need to hold by the end of our time. We are, in that way, agenda-less. The hope of this process is that you will feel unstuck and internally freer by the end, but this hope is not a prescription. Every person’s journey is unique and the conclusions you’ll come to or the ways you’ll grow through this process are yours to discover. You are the authority on your own story and spirituality.

Agenda-less Space & Hoped for Outcomes

The community culture of Grey Space is one of honoring and witnessing each other with compassion, care, and positive regard. We all come as fellow sojourners, trusting that through sharing our experiences we will be able to grow and see things more clearly than we would on our own.

Supportive Community & Communal Learning

Honoring Your Agency & Your Needs

Your needs matter and your intuition holds wisdom. To that end, your no will always be welcome in Grey Space. If there are moments that you need to participate through listening only, that is more than enough. There is also a feedback loop in place to ensure that you have the chance to express what you need. We will often do check-ins throughout our time together around what would most benefit the community at any given point, like a grounding exercise, internal processing time, etc.

Schedule an Information Call

Logistic FAQs

  • If you feel stuck in your deconstruction, weighed down by your religious experiences, and long for a safe community to process your spiritual journey, then you’re in the right place.

    No matter where you are in your journey, whether you’ve left faith, still love Jesus, don’t believe in a higher power, left church, still go to church, or are spiritually curious, this is a space for you.

  • A new cohort will launch July 28, 2026. We’ll be meeting every other Tuesday from 5:30pm PT - 7:00pm PT (7:30pm CT- 9pmCT) on Zoom.

    The dates will be July 28, August 11 & 25, September 8 & 22, October 6 & 20, November 3 & 17, December 1, 15, & 29.

  • Each call does build on the other, so I strongly encourage you to be present for as many as possible. However, I understand that life is full and often unexpected so if you miss a couple sessions, that’s not a problem. If you can already tell that you will have to miss more than two sessions, I would encourage you to wait until our next cohort to join.

  • Thanks to generous donors and past participants who chose to pay it forward, we are able to offer Grey Space for a suggested fee of $240, significantly lower than the true cost of $1400.

    Money should never be a barrier to receiving spiritual care. If you cannot afford this rate, please simply note it in your registration as scholarships are available.

    If you would like to and are able to contribute more than $240 in order to make Grey Space accessible for someone else, you are welcome to do so.

  • Fill out the form below indicating your interest in Grey Space. From there, we will set up a meeting. If we discern that this space fits what you need, you will confirm your registration with payment.

    Registration is now extended to July 21.

  • If this is you, fill out the form below to let me know you’d like to participate. Before launching a new cohort, I check with everyone who has expressed interest to find a time that works for them!

The Nitty Gritty

  • Grey Space approaches our journey together from a trauma-informed, spiritual formation perspective.

    Being trauma-informed, in this case, means that grounding exercises will be a part of how we gather, the structure of the group is designed to support your healing while also being flexible to change based on your input, and everyone will be encouraged to honor their own needs and attend to their bodily experience. You will always know ahead of time the plan for each week and you will always have the option to participate through listening if you do not want to share. This is not therapy and all are encouraged to seek a therapist for any trauma work.

    A spiritual formation perspective, in this case, means that reflection questions and our own experiences, not lectures, will be our teachers. For example, one week we will reflect on the prompt, “Tell me about the God you don’t believe in,” and notice what our reflections show us about our evolving beliefs. A spiritual formation perspective also means that we will create space for and honor what our own intuition/spirit speaks.

  • Each person, upon committing to participating Grey Space, must also agree to our community commitments and will receive a detailed version. Here is the abbreviated version:

    Honor people’s journey

    Be fully present

    Respond with empathy and compassion

    Center your own experience

    Practice perspective-taking

    Affirm each other’s belovedness & identity

    Get curious

    Respect double confidentiality

    If you’d like to see the more detailed version before registering, you may request the commitments below.

  • If you ‘d like to learn more about the structure, content, and commitments of Grey Space, or have any questions at all, I’d be happy to either send you information by email or set up a time to meet with you! I know that trusting a space like this is a risk, especially if you’ve had adverse religious experiences in the past, so I want to do everything in my power to honor your courage and support you in your process of discerning whether to join. You can fill out the form below to begin the conversation.

  • I cap the cohort at 8 people. This is to cultivate a more meaningful, connective experience as there is more space for each person to share.

  • Yes! I would be glad to do a cohort for your community. Reach out via the interest form below.

Begin the Process

If you’re interested in learning more or participating in Grey Space, please reach out below.

I will set up a short meeting with you to share more about this cohort experience and to hear about your expectations so that we can discern if this is a good fit for you.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Testimonials

  • "Grey Space allowed me to filter through years of unprocessed spiritual plaque that was clogging my ability to move forward. The honest and rich environment established by the group's trust in the process made wading into vulnerable waters of my past a disarming experience. Each session's material and exercises is thoughtfully arranged to systematically explore what was, what is, and what could be. It was a hopeful and inspiring time that bore much fruit in a garden that I thought had gone fallow."

    Les

  • "I feel a lot more peace now - peace about being in a new place in life. Coming into Grey Space, I felt constantly aware of what I didn't like/didn't believe anymore and contemplating the negative impact of it all not just on myself, but on my family. Being part of this wonderfully honest and accepting group has been so healing. I feel less preoccupied with what I don't like or believe and instead curious about what's next for my awakening/transformation. I feel a general sense of peace in settling into my new identity.”

    Andrea

  • “This is the first time I’ve been out in a faith adjacent context and that’s huge. I felt like I got to be all of me in Grey Space. That’s really beautiful because usually I have to put something down to be in community. This experience helped change the way I value myself and expanded my sense of self and my faith. God is actually big enough to do the things he says he’s gonna do. I’m not fundamentally broken. I’m a beautiful creation. I’m part of this beautiful interconnected universe. I’m divine.”

    Jess

  • "I entered Grey Space with a heavy mix of angst and shame, the result of decades of struggling to fit into the mold of my faith of origin, which often felt constrictive and at odds with my personal experiences. However, as I journeyed with the cohort, engaging in open, non-judgmental dialogues and reflections, I experienced a meaningful shift. The communal sharing, the empathetic listening, and the absence of a forced theological agenda gradually allowed me to peel away layers of self-doubt and guilt. By the end of Grey Space, I felt like I had gone through a baptism. I entered with significant discomfort with the person I was, and I left with a degree of self-acceptance I had not previously experienced. I began to see my spiritual uncertainty not as failings, but as pathways to deeper understanding. In Grey Space, I didn't find theological answers to all my questions but rather, peace and reconciliation with my inner self."

    Justin

  • It was extremely supportive to be in community with people who were in a similar place in their journey of healing from black-and-white religious fundamentalism. It helped me to feel like it was okay for me to embrace the uncertainty and the questioning that I'd longed to embrace for a long time, but had been discouraged from doing by most people in my spiritual environments. I am now in a place where I feel far more confident that my doubts and questions and divergences are not *at odds* with my relationship with God, but rather, are exactly where the Spirit of Divine Love has been inviting me to wander.

    Selena