Becoming & Belonging (B & B) -- Weekly small group Circles for learning, connecting, and going just a bit deeper. Jump in once, or as often as your heart pings.
Reach back if you have questions or wish a little help imagining together — for yourself, your team, or whatever configuration of community you find yourself in.
“Breath and Belonging: A Circle Way Intensive lifts skill, practice, and imagination in the methodology that is Circle, and, in what lives beneath methodology — breath, belonging, return to center, and return to each other as a way of being.”
Lately, I find myself interested in the phrase “calibrate.” As a verb.
Some friends have been using it lately. “Calibrate to stillness.” “Calibrate to silence.”
It points to an inner clarity. An alignment. Perhaps emotional. Perhaps more accurately, an energetic. A resonance.
I am interested in the practice that is calibrating. As a way of facing and inviting what is real. As a way of growing in gifts.
Lately, I also find myself interested in the phrase “disregulate.” As a verb.
Again, some friends have been using this to name emotional and energetic impact. “That conversation disregulates me.” It tends to connote a scattering of energy. Perhaps a scattering of emotions.
Again, it points to developing keen skills of awareness. Awareness of being off. Awareness of fear of being off.
I am interested in the practice that is regulating. As a way of facing and inviting what is real. As a way of strengthening gifts.
Hmmm…
These phrases and practices aren’t new. For those that work and guide trauma-informed practice, these are basic. And for those that guide neuro-diverse ways, these are common.
It’s not just the big traumas. Sometimes its the little day to day emotional fields.
Thus the beauty of evolution. To understand more now of what couldn’t previously be mentioned at all.
I’m finding fruitfulness.
Calibrate. Disregulate. And regulate.
This photo above calibrates me. To light. To stillness. To love. From a recent walk with Dana. It makes me smile, which also calibrates.
Lately it is the book The Seven Whispers (Christina Baldwin) that is calibrating me. I’m reading it extra. Little bits here and there.
I’m interested in the words. In the verbs. In the regular day to day that is living fruitfully.
And, not a big stretch, I’m interested in what calibrates communally. Circle is a big part of that for me. Circle both pauses the disregulation. It also calibrates us to deeper integration.
People everywhere seeking practices and formats for deep connection, learning, and experiments together.
Seekers. Meaning makers. Hosts and facilitators. Circle peeps from many traditions. Returning Circle Way folk wishing renewal and community.
All walks of life, all professions. Managers, facilitators, team leaders, consultants, coaches, entrepreneurs. Educators, artists, poets, musicians, faith community leaders, government administrators, community organizers, and social change activists.
Because Circle centers it all. It is the most simple of containers, yet so often the most lasting of learning. For self and for teams. For leadership and for life.
Here’s some of what we’ll cover.
Foundations of skilled Circle practice, including essentials from The Circle Way Components Wheel — practices, principals, and agreements.
Core orientations of meaningful Circle hosting, online and in face to face meetings — showing up, asking questions, listening acutely, speaking honestly, harvesting insights, practicing the most essential rhythms of Circle.
Clarity of deep Circle spirit — the importance of breath, the tangibility of belonging, the potency of a centered way of being individually and collectively.
A co-learning space that welcomes participants to share learnings from their circle traditions and experiences — we wish to weave and encourage broad field of practice.
asd 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
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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 + Note Cards
asd 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.
