KinJour Gathering
A community for people who are past coping and nowhere near quitting
You're the person people call when the plan falls apart. You keep track of everyone's appointments, and at eleven at night you're still answering texts.
From the outside it all looks handled. So people stop asking how you are.
Somewhere along the way you set down the parts of you that had nothing to do with being useful. Could be the sketchbook in the hall closet, or the garden you used to fuss over on Sunday mornings.
KinJour Gathering is where you pick those back up, alongside people who already know what a week like yours feels like.
The Name
KinJour Gathering — three words that hold the whole story.
Kin — the people who are yours. Not only by blood, but by choice. The ones who walk beside you through the hard and beautiful terrain of a life lived with intention.
Jour — short for the journey. The daily unfolding. The winding road of becoming. (And if you listen closely, a sojourn lives inside that word too: a meaningful dwelling, a rest along a longer road.)
Gathering — what happens when people show up for each other. Not an event. Not a program. An ongoing act of choosing to be in community, and discovering, every time, what becomes possible when you do.
What We Believe
Every decision made inside KinJour Gathering — the programming, the facilitation approach, the community agreements, the pacing, the way we open a circle and close a retreat — is rooted in a set of convictions that do not change:
That becoming who you are is one of the most important and undervalued forms of work a person can do.
That this work is not meant to be done alone. The research is clear. The lived experience of anyone who has ever been held in genuine community is clear. We grow faster, heal more fully, and sustain more lasting change when we don’t go it alone.
That the people you need are not as far away as they feel. They are gathering. They were gathering before you found this page. Your arrival is not the beginning of the story; it is the moment you join it.
That a well-held space is not a luxury. For people who have spent their lives showing up for others — holding institutions, teams, families, communities — a space that holds them is not optional. It is essential.
That equity is not a program or a tagline. It is the baseline. Every person who walks into a KinJour Gathering deserves to be fully seen, genuinely heard, and treated as the expert on their own experience.
About Dr. Kim
Dr. Kim Davis is the founder of KinJour Gathering and the President of Five/6teen Consulting LLC — but before any of those titles, she is someone who knows, from the inside, what it costs to carry too much alone.
She has spent 30 years working inside nonprofit organizations, higher education institutions, and municipal settings, leading, building, advising, and developing the people and cultures that make mission-driven work possible. She has walked into organizations in crisis and helped them find their footing. She has developed leaders who didn't yet know they were ones. She has sat in circles where people said things they had never said out loud before, and watched what happened to them when they did.
KinJour Gathering is the convergence of everything she has learned in those rooms.
Dr. Kim holds an Ed.D. in Leadership and Innovation and is a Certified Life, Leadership, and Executive Coach. Her original research on the Arts-Based Sister Circle Model and its impact on self-efficacy and empowerment is the scholarly foundation for the community circle practice at the heart of KinJour Gathering. Her active research on Black women's leadership in arts and culture organizations informs the equity-centered lens she brings to all of her work.
She is also a practitioner in embodied and arts-based facilitation, which means that when she creates a space, she draws on her whole self: the scholar, the coach, the artist, and the person still walking her own winding road of becoming.
Some work is done better in a closed room with one person. A career decision you've turned over for months fits here, and so does a pattern you can name and keep repeating anyway.
Single session: $200
3 months, 6 sessions: $1,100*
6 months, 12 sessions: $2,100*
*Both packages offer monthly payment plans, and you can book directly from the coaching page.
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