New Workshop — Circle & Story

The next workshop is September 28, 2023. 90 minutes online. Held in English. Offered at two time zones.

Full description and registration links are here. Please join.

Here’s the why for you, for me, for many of us…

  • There is hunger and need among many of us for environments of realness. For connection. For depth in the simple things that change who we are and how we are together. 
  • So many of us seek ways to find more of what affirms life in ourselves and in our groups of affiliation — be they work teams, community committees, partnerships, or families.
  • Circle turns us to one another. It also turns us to parts of ourselves lesser known.
  • Story creates sharedness, and universality from the personal. It creates breath and belonging.
  • I’ve created this Pop-Up workshop because I’m a hungry learner in my craft that is facilitating groups to more wise, kind, helpful, and life-giving experiences.
  • Pop-Up Workshops are my way of bringing real-time learning to others — particularly group-process people or team leaders or managers or humans — that need insights and stuff to try as they evolve how people go well together.

Here’s the what you get, what we get together…

  • welcome and hello (context and check-in)
  • an exercise (or game) on the topic of the month
  • harvesting (noticing insights and applications)
  • goodbye (deliberate check-out)
  • followup email with workshop design that you can use in your facilitating

Welcome. Bring your learning. Bring your desire to evolve facilitation to something better.

2 Replies to “New Workshop — Circle & Story”

  1. I’m appreciating, even in this post, the expansion of language for some Circle elements, e.g., harvesting. This helps me recognize that for folks who have not experienced these elements, they need just a very brief note to give context.

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Gifts of Circle - Question Cardsasd
Gifts of Circle is 30 short essays divided into 4 sections: 1) Circle's Bigger Purpose, 2) Circle's Practice, 3) Circle's First Requirements, and 4) Circle's Possibility for Men. From the Introduction: "Circle is what I turn to in the most comprehensive stories I know -- the stories of human beings trying to be kind and aware together, trying to make a difference in varied causes for which we need to go well together. Circle is also what I turn to in the most immediate needs that live right in front of me and in front of most of us -- sharing dreams and difficulties, exploring conflicts and coherences. Circle is what I turn to. Circle is what turns us to each other."

Question Cards is an accompanying tool to Gifts of Circle. Each card (34) offers a quote from the corresponding chapter in the book, followed by sample questions to grow your Circle hosting skills and to create connection, courage, and compassionate action among groups you host in Circle.

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In My Nature
is a collection of 10 poems. From A Note of Beginning: "This collection of poems arises from the many conversations I've been having about nature. Nature as guide. Nature as wild. Nature as organized. I remain a human being that so appreciates a curious nature in people. That so appreciates questions that pick fruit from inner being, that gather insights and intuitions to a basket, and then brings the to table to be enjoyed and shared over the next week."

This set of Note Cards (8 cards + envelopes)  quotes a few favorite passages from poems in In My Nature. I offer them as inspiration. And leave room for you to write personal notes.

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Most Mornings is a collection of 37 poems. I loved writing them. From the introduction: "This collection of poems comes from some of my sense-making that so often happens in the morning, nurtured by overnight sleep. The poems sample practices. They sample learnings. They sample insights and discoveries. They sample dilemmas and concerns."

This set of Note Cards (8 cards + envelopes)  quotes a few favorite passages from poems in Most Mornings. I offer them as inspiration. And leave room for you to write personal notes.

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