A group of faculty and staff gather in a conference room in the student union to share experiences with the soul-role divide at work and in the classroom. The meeting begins with a reminder of the group's conversational norms that invite deep reflection and a safe place for the soul. The purpose of the meeting is exploring the deep heartfelt and heartbroken nature of work in academia, developing a sense of the shared journey, and examining ways of working productively in the tension between soul and role in higher education. This chapter describes the origin of faculty-staff gatherings modeled on the Circle of Trust[R] approach. The authors offer vignettes of five different participants highlighting their experience and outcomes with the soul-role conversations. The five stories feature the voices of an administrator, a staff person, a pretenured faculty, a tenured faculty, and an adjunct faculty member of the university. The authors outline the structure of the meetings, offer descriptions of participant experiences, and end with suggestions for ways of hosting similar gatherings on other college campuses.