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The Community Circle is a membership for deeper love, connection and growth: live monthly topics, weekly challenges, Q&As, and people on the same path alongside you.

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Not four choices. One path, four parts of it.

Most people eventually take all four.

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what being in the Community Circle gives you

Whatever brought you here, you do not have to carry it alone.

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  • A home base

    A place to return to while you do the work, with a monthly live topic, Q&As, and support.

  • People doing the same work

    Real connection with people who are working to improve themselves, so you are not doing yours alone.

  • A monthly live topic

    One focus each month, with a short framing, honest conversation, and time for your questions.

  • Weekly challenges

    Take part in weekly challenges that help you move toward your goals.

  • Live workshops and retreats

    Early updates on what is coming, and moments built to be felt, not just watched.

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four ways in

Not four choices. One path, four parts of it.

Most people eventually take all four.

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Dr. Richard Mills-Malangone

a note from the founder

welcome to the Collective

I am glad you are here. The Laike Rising Collective is a home base for the work you are doing, and a group of people doing the same honest, unglamorous work of showing up as themselves.

Here, relating starts with yourself and then moves outward to others, without the scripts or the performance. Take what you need, and come back as often as you like.

Dr. Richard Mills-Malangone

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about the founder

Dr. Richard Mills-Malangone

Dr. Richard Mills-Malangone is a Board Certified Sex Therapist through AASECT and a licensed therapist whose work centers on helping individuals and couples build honest, emotionally grounded relationships.

an Internal Family Systems–informed practitioner

With advanced training through:

IFS InstituteInternal Family Systems
EMDR Institute
FluenceKetamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
Modern Sex Therapy Institutes
his clinical approach is
trauma-informedrelationaldeeply rooted in parts work
host of
Talk Sex With Dick
founder of the
Laike Rising Collective