We Gather Here Today

StillWeSpeak was never meant to be a brand.

It wasn’t born from strategy. It was born from sitting with people week after week, month after month and realising that what we had been doing all along was church in its most honest form. Not in the traditional sense. Not with pews or pulpits. But in the sense of gathering, of storytelling, of being fully present with one another through pain, through silence, through deep recognition.

In the early days of GEM, what started as a program grew into something more. We gathered online. We shared teachings, held space for practices, and had discussions that wove people from different paths into a single thread of truth-seeking. The lessons were powerful. But the most valuable part, the part people kept showing up for, was each other. The listening and the witnessing of brave and beautiful stories of people telling the truth about their lives.

That’s what stayed with me. It wasn’t the polished insights or the plans. It was the pauses.

The shakiness in someone’s voice as they named something for the first time. The way the group held them; not with answers, but with presence. There was something spiritual happening. Something collective. It was no longer about guiding people toward an individual awakening. It was about remembering that we don’t heal alone.

So, StillWeSpeak is the continuation of that. It’s not a replacement, but a return to what was always at the centre: the power of voice, the necessity of community, and the quiet holiness of showing up exactly as we are.

We gather here not to be taught how to live, but to be reminded that we are alive. That our stories matter. That our wounds carry wisdom. That the act of speaking honestly, vulnerably, and without performance can be sacred in itself.

StillWeSpeak is a space for that kind of speaking. The kind that doesn’t shout, but rings true. The kind that doesn’t pretend, but reveals.

And most importantly, it is a space for listening. Deep listening. Because when someone shares their sorrow, their truth, their becoming and it invites something in us to soften. It reminds us that our own story is still being written, still being held, still worth speaking.

If you were part of GEM, you already know what I’m talking about. If you're just arriving, welcome. We’re not building something flashy. We’re building something real. A gathering of voices, each holding a piece of the sacred, each speaking not for attention, but for connection.

Now, we gather here. We speak. We listen.

And in that, something holy begins.

With love and undying gratitude,

Lewis