An Evening of Community, Healing & Connection

• Mission: To create accessible pathways to healing by bringing together independent practitioners, educators, artisans, and community resources to foster connection, learning, growth, and whole-person healing.  Our guiding invitation is simple: Go Be Love.
• Vision: We envision a world where every person has access to the support, resources, relationships, and experiences that help them to heal in mind, body, heart, and spirit.

The Collective brings together independent practitioners with different skills and a shared heart for supporting others. Their offerings create opportunities for personalized care, learning, reflection, and connection.

• Shift Your Lens — Danielle Groth and Vicky Lovell, co-founders of Angel Whispers Healing Center, offer grief support, spiritual care, Reiki, EFT/tapping, meditation, sound experiences, and retreats. Together, they created Shift Your Lens: Healing Your Stories™, their cornerstone program that helps people name the pain, process the emotion, and reauthor their story.
• BEP Medical Group — Marcie Bockbrader, MD, offers integrative and functional medicine. Her practice supports people navigating concerns such as PTSD, the physical effects of trauma and grief, chronic pain, post-COVID fatigue, brain injury, digestive issues, and hormone imbalances.
• Dexter Speech Therapy — Jodie Hastings, MS, CCC-SLP, provides individualized speech and language services in a caring, encouraging environment, working with children and their families to support communication.
• Second Hands Healing — Michelle Chute offers therapeutic massage and craniosacral therapy. She also brings massage services to older adults through senior centers, extending her care into the wider community.
• SEL Rocks — Jennifer Kramer offers social-emotional learning, coaching, community preparedness and CPR training, and kindness rock painting. She also creates opportunities for caregivers and women to connect and support one another.
• Spiritual Direction & Soul Care — Nathan Clair offers compassionate, inclusive support for people navigating loss, grief, and religious trauma. As a humanist and interfaith chaplain, he welcomes diverse beliefs and creates space to explore meaning, spiritual questions, and possibilities for growth.
• Spirit Listening — Dan McConnell, a spiritual director, offers a compassionate space to explore life’s questions, listen inward, and notice where the sacred meets everyday life. He welcomes your questions, doubts, and experiences with curiosity and care.
• Aesthetics by Bruna - Bruna specializes in custom facials designed to address the unique skin needs of clients while supporting overall wellness and relaxation.

At Angel Whispers Healing Center, we make room for people to learn, connect, and support one another through these complimentary offerings. Participation is free, and we provide the space at no charge to the instructors and facilitators who bring these gatherings to our community.

• Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Meetings – Weekly meetings hosted at the center.
• Caregiver Support Group – Monthly support for caregivers of people living with neurodegenerative diseases.
• Food over Medicine Club – Monthly plant-based nutrition education.
• Guided Meditations – Weekly opportunities to gather for silent meditation.
• Loss by Suicide Support — “Say Their Name” – An annual gathering supporting families and friends impacted by suicide.
• Spiritual Book Discussion – Weekly book discussions, offered in person and online, for reflection and conversation.
• Wellness Walking Club – Weekly outdoor walks that combine movement and community.
• Women’s Health Support Group – Monthly conversation and support around women’s health for girls and women of all ages.

Danielle and Vicky bring practical tools and compassionate support into schools, caregiver communities, senior centers, and other gathering places at no charge.

• Local schools: At Saline High School and other schools, they have introduced more than 2,000 students to EFT/tapping and vibrational sound practices to help them manage stress, understand emotions, and find moments of calm. They have also supported students grieving the loss of classmates to suicide.
• Parents and caregivers: Through North Star Reach, they have shared their programming with parents and caregivers of children with serious health challenges, offering care to those who spend so much of their lives caring for others.
• Community events and education: They have supported Yoga at the Big House and provided suicide awareness education at Light of the World Academy and the University of Michigan.
• Older adults: At the Dexter Senior Center and other community spaces, they have offered education and practical tools for understanding and calming the nervous system.
• Support during tragedy: When local communities face sudden loss or tragedy, they offer a compassionate presence and opportunities for people to gather, feel supported, and connect.

This is one way we live our mission to Go Be Love—showing up where care and connection are needed.

At the heart of our grief support is Shift Your Lens: Healing Your Stories™, our cornerstone program, written and developed by Angel Whispers founders Danielle Groth and Vicky Lovell. 

Our grief groups offer a place to be heard, supported, and connected with others who understand, with dedicated groups for parents grieving the loss of teenage or adult children.

We have completed seven grief groups serving approximately 30 people, along with two parent grief groups supporting 16 parents. Participants pay a small fee for the manual only if they are able. No one is ever turned away because they cannot pay.

With four more groups planned between November 2026 and spring 2027, additional funding will help keep this support accessible and allow us to train other facilitators, bringing the program to more people and places throughout our community.

Your generosity helps make individual sessions, classes, workshops, retreats, and grief programs accessible to people facing financial barriers. That could mean a grieving parent finding understanding in a group, a caregiver making time to receive care, or someone learning practical tools they can use at home.

Your support also keeps the doors open. Rent, utilities, cleaning, and everyday supplies make it possible to offer a comfortable, welcoming space for appointments, complimentary gatherings, and community programs. These behind-the-scenes essentials are part of every experience we offer.

Funding both scholarships and daily operations helps us care for the people who come through our doors—and sustain the place where that care happens.

Our hope is simple: when someone reaches for support, cost should not be the reason they have to turn away.