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The Warmth of Circle — Margaret Wheatley

Meg’s voice has long been an important one. For me. For many. I love the friendship and kinship that Meg and I share.

I was pretty moved to have Meg write the forward to my book, Gifts of Circle. Yes, please, get the book and Question Cards. Or just peek and enjoy Meg’s Forward.

The Warmth of Circle — Margaret Wheatley Excerpt

We don’t know exactly when our early hominid ancestors began using fire for cooking, toolmaking, and warming. But it was at least one million years ago. A few archaeologists expect to discover evidence dating the first use of fire back to 2 million years. Whenever hominids began using fire intentionally, we know they sat in Circle. There was no other way for everyone to be warm.

And so it is today. If we want people to feel warmly welcomed, let us return to Circle. Let us rely on Circle as the form that invites contribution from everyone, that evokes individual and collective wisdom, that creates the conditions for us to resolve our afflictions and create new possibilities. Let us rely on Circle to awaken our innate human qualities of generosity, creativity, and kindness.

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Chris Jepson Joins The Human To Human Podcast

I’m loving many of the people I’m meeting these days. Chris Jepson is one of them. Recently he and I sat down for a Zoom conversation. Enjoy the listen here.

There is so much that I love in conversations with Chris Jepson. We are a new-ish connection. I love the beginnings of friendship and learning community with Chris. Chris represents something to me that I’m particularly appreciating. He’s a younger man (30s) that is asking such conscious questions about life, about meaning, about belonging, about purpose, about contribution. His way of being deepens mine.

Enjoy the listen to our conversation. And then find your stillness. Or find it in my Becoming & Belonging Series (online, Circle-based, hosted presence / learning).

About Chris:

Chris Jepson is a heart-centered leader who helps purpose-driven organizations bridge vision with effective coherent execution. He is a Canadian, a father of one, and a spiritual seeker. Chris has been following his emergent passions for the past 5+ years. This has led him on a journey from renewable energy to conscious entrepreneurship, and from Canada to Costa Rica and back again. Chris writes for joy, learns with endless curiosity, and shares honest reflections from the path less traveled — exploring consciousness, personal mastery, and the art of living from the heart.

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Joy Matters; Joy Is Possible

I’ve been thinking a lot over the last week about a recent conversation I had with a UCC pastor. I was inspired to offer framing with him, to contrast efforts that focus on “what’s wrong” and invite efforts that focus on “what’s possible.” It’s a stuck point that many of us find our way to. It’s also a key release, a key action, to unstick with some focus on joy’s alchemizing ways.

And that got me to my journal, writing. Poetry, writing. Joy, seeking.

It matters
that some of us
seek
joy.

Even when
there is such prevalent
suffering.

Joy
isn’t
denial.

Joy is 
fierce
insistance.

Joy guides.
Joy lifts.
Joy reminds.
Joy carries.
Joy opens.
Joy positions.

Joy doesn’t overlook
what is hard, 
nor what is unjust.

It interrupts it,
claiming
matters.

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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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