Author: Tenneson Woolf

Megan brings a great focus to health and well-being that comes from ceremony and ritual.

This week we got to touch a few things on that. Some why of ceremony. Some examples. Some on the big ceremonies. Some on the everyday. Some on the first-time experiences. Some on what lasts over years. Some on the call to men in ceremony.

This podcast is meant to be pretty simple. Unedited conversation. Presence. Some pause. An important question or two asked together. Listening. Wondering. We know we don’t get to all of the good stuff. We get to what supports well-being, becoming, belonging. And that can ripple out to others.

Enjoy the listen and a bit more about Megan and Being Ceremonial here.

Ready for a next conversation, a next convening on Becoming & Belonging? Reach me.

From Gifts of Circle, Chapter 4:

• Circle activates an identity of the whole.
• Circle invites further connection.
• Circle bridges the professional and the personal.
• Circle surprises people with depth.

I loved writing this book. I’m loving people connecting with it.

I’m loving the way the book is further writing me.

On February 28th I’m being hosted by NewStories. It’s a book release gathering online. Details are here. Come to learn. Come to share.

Glad to have my friends at NewStories hosting this Book Release Conversation on February 28, 2025, 9:00 – 10:00 am PT.

All of the details are here, including link to registration.

No charge. Come to learn. And to meet others who appreciate Circle. I’ll tell a few stories about Gifts of Circle (released December 2024). I’ll share some learning. We’ll invite you to jump in.

NewStories‘ work is so much about bringing new life to new narratives and practices that create regenerative future.

Circle is one of the ways that helps us do that. As I’ve named in the subtitle of this book, Connection, Courage, Compassionate Action are the gifts. They are the intentions of Circle. They are the outcomes too.

I’m glad to have written this book. I’m glad to have it writing me. Read it (and it’s accompanying Question Cards) if you can before the 28th. Or just register and show up.

I’m glad for NewStories colleagues like Ally and elders like Bob. Together we keep finding ways.

On Saturday I met with three close-in men for Flow Group. Together we explored our respective next layers of purpose in our lives and jobs. We used Flow Game and Circle to give us just the right amount of format and context to go deep. So sweet, men in story, curiosity, laughter, and tears together.

One of the men spoke of 13th Century Persian Poet Rumi’s oft-quoted passage:

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. 
I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase ‘each other’
doesn’t make any sense.”

Sweet again. We need these places, don’t we. Where we dissolve and discover.

At the end of the call, I shared an important principle that helps brings me, brings people, to the deep inner work — I’m calling my series that does this, Becoming & Belonging. “Not only to we live life, but life lives us. Not only to we look for clues, but clues look for us.”

Join an upcoming Flow Group in February or March? For the sweetness in the field.