Author: Tenneson Woolf

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Circle Workshop Today

We are a full house. I’m glad. People drawn to learning the skills and learning the heart. This is the great work for many of us, isn’t it. Learning things. And living ways of being.

Circle has been in my heart since the mid 90s. Thx Meg. Thx Christina. Thx Ann. Thx Bob. Thx Toke. It’s good to be close to people living these ways. It’s good to have people inviting another way that lifts connection. That lifts our delicious, messy humanness together.

Learn To Be Circle Here. I’ll offer it again, dates TBD. Today, what a treat to go in with the folks wishing the heart of it.

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The Courage to Start Again

Starting again is a theme I pay attention to.

Sometimes it’s a big start-again, claiming something totally new. Sometimes it’s a renewed conviction for the same thing that’s been going on for a long time.

We learn, we humans. I’m so impressed by the courage that people have. To stay the course. To let go the course that doesn’t serve. To nuance the daily. To trust the simple. To open to love. To be unflinching.

With all of that in mind and heart, these words came this morning to my journal.

Thankfully,
there’s always
the starting again.

The way we pick up the dishes
and take out the trash,
and clean the counters.

The way we make room
for a new day, maybe a mystery,
to companion us.

We want whatever is next, don’t we.
We want to trust.
We want something to be there. 

Despite all of the troubles,
the complications,
and the reasons not to,

we don’ let go of the next
and perhaps, 
it doesn’t let go of us either.

Thankfully,
there is always
the starting again.

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The Deeper Desires

Hi Folks. I’m back from a week of Circle with Men, Soultime. I’m back from mostly timeless time. No media. No clock. Just company.

I’m back to pick up and integrate stuff. Now on my Monday.

I asked AI for some help. I wanted themes. The source material is what people have written on their registration forms for my Becoming & Belonging Series (B & B).

The question — What draws you to participating in these B&B offerings now? What is the yearning that lives in you?

I love the themes I got.

  1. To Belong — to be part of meaningful, soulful, evolving community.
  1. To Become — to grow, transform, and live more authentically.
  1. To Be Held — by Circle, by community, by spacious and sacred practice.
  1. To Offer — to contribute gifts, stories, presence, and facilitation.
  1. To Navigate Change — inner shifts, transitions, vocations, aging, and family dynamics.
  1. To Listen — to self, to others, to the wisdom of life.
  1. To Heal — both self and systems, through presence and honest conversation.
  1. To Play — with curiosity, with mystery, with spirit, with each other.

It’s good to be with good humans. Getting to the heart of it.

B&B is ongoing — this week I’m offering a new process for engaging a story. And, well, you know — inviting the inner to connect with the outer.

Also upcoming is a workshop, Men & Ritual. June 24th online. We’ve got some structure — for men in particular — to create and practice ritual. To get to the heart of that too.

Yup.
Time away
has a way
of bringing
the deeper
desires
home.

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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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