Nearly every November for the past eight years I have journeyed to Bowen Island, close to Vancouver BC, for the Art of Hosting. We are readying to once again welcome a group for this annual learning event on November 11 to 14, 2018. Last year, Scott Macklin came and made a beautiful 12 minute video capturing […]
Read More ›This post originally appeared on thecircleway.net’s blog and monthly newsletter. Welcoming our Humanity with a Check-In Question It was the second class of The Circle Way: A Four Week Online Class to Introduce and Nuance the Components Wheel, co-hosted by Tenneson Woolf and myself. We were a group from all around the globe – Japan, Liberia, Luxembourg, […]
Read More ›I recently found myself going back through my resources to offer some guidance to clients on creating a core team. The gist of core teams: Almost all successful participatory projects start with a small group of people who care and hold the flame for the work. Often, in the rush to act and meet deadlines, […]
Read More ›During The Circle Way practicums I get to be involved with teaching, we spend some time exploring the topic of sustaining healthy circles: that there are unspoken elements that need to be discussed or tended to or they have the potential to erode or destroy our best intentions. “That’s the key idea: issues arise […]
Read More ›It’s an exciting day – launching a new thing into the world! I’ve been involved in teaching The Circle Way for several years, and know that not everyone can make the journey to attend an in-person practicum, and other practitioners are looking for an opportunity to refresh or deepen their circle practice. Tenneson Woolf and […]
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