Category: General Learning

Rangineh and I recently talked through a few Circle stories. Some of the places and spaces that we’ve been hosting Circle. Rangineh talks local government and highly relational initiatives that often aren’t so relational in leadership. I talk corporate and the inherent hunger that people have for wisdom and intelligence together. Together we connect the desires and needs that so many have — for authenticity and more connected ways of being.

The video is here, posted on The Circle Way website. It also comes with transcript. The website continues to curate many resources on Circle — snoop around.

Join us October 23-26, 2024 in Salt Lake City for A Circle Way Intensive. We’ll continue the conversation there. And the learning. And the practice. And the celebrating.

The video is here, 39 minutes. Thx Kathy for posting.

Kathy, Jerry and I explore a few insights about The Art of Hosting, fields, the
“never not doing” of AoH, and the persistent importance of creating conversations and connections that bring wisdom, and belonging at scale.

It’s a simple piece. Often quoted. To guide meaning-making and presence-practicing.

I’m reading it today from within my friend Meg’s book, Perseverance.

“Know that the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore.
Push off into the middle of the river,
and keep our heads above water.”

Indeed.

It speaks that reminder that I so often appreciate. Not only do we live life, life lives us. There is some surrender in that.

How freeing.

And on it goes.

I participated in an Art of Hosting community of practice call today. Via Zoom.

The opening check-in was in groups of three for 15 minutes total.

A man spoke of his recent Art of Hosting. “We danced. We laughed. We ate. We told stories. My heart is full of love.”

I smiled. It is the feeling that brought me into the Art of Hosting in the early 2000s.

A woman then spoke of her interest in the call. “We host process. We host meetings. I’m interested in how we host fields.”

I smiled again. It is the kind of question that has stayed with me for over 20 years. “Fields” is reference to the energetic of the group as a connected whole. I have found it to be the deeper work of facilitation.

What a sweet group.

What a sweet reminder of the deep and lasting layers possible when people come together with heart, to learn and explore together.

A few more words of exploration here — some praise for this body of work.