A slow breath inward to remember yourself Shaped by longing, listening, and becoming The roots beneath everything you’ll find here
About
The Story Behind the Flame
The name Hearth & Horizon came as a quiet knowing — a call to honour both where we are and where we’re going.
The Hearth is the warmth of home, the flame we tend within.
The Horizon is the call to growth, expansion, and becoming.
Together, they hold the tension between rootedness and rising — the inward journey and the outward one, a twin trail, woven together for whatever season you find yourself in.
This is the heart of Hearth & Horizon.
Our Values
Our Mission
Reverence — honouring the unseen and cyclical
Truth — speaking what is real
Embodiment — listening through body and breath
Belonging — showing up as you are
Simplicity — depth without complication
To tend spaces where women can return to themselves.
To offer rhythm, reflection, and remembering through circle, ritual, and soul practice.
To walk alongside those navigating change.
To root what has drifted. To rise what has been buried.
Meet Jessica Hardiman
I'm Jessica — a women's circle facilitator, Waldorf parent-and-child practitioner, and founder of Hearth & Horizon. I build spaces and communities that help people reconnect to themselves, each other, and what matters most.
My path has always run through organisations working to do things differently — alternative education, regenerative land projects, early renewable energy. I've worked from the inside of institutions and outside them, and what I've learned is that real change — in systems, in communities, in people — begins with connection and belonging.
I came to circle work through my own becoming — through motherhood, through thresholds of identity, through the kind of change that asks you to find out who you are when the old version of yourself no longer fits. I trained with Gemma Brady of Sister Stories in the art of circle keeping, and my facilitation is rooted in Waldorf teacher training, ritual practice, and ancestral remembering. I grew up attending a Steiner Waldorf school myself — so this way of moving through the world is not just something I studied, it's something I was shaped by.
I hold women's circles at the Roundhouse in Richmond, and parent-and-child sessions through Little Hearth. This work is not something I invented. It is a remembering. And it is my honour to walk it alongside the women who find their way here.