Human to Human

A deep bow to a colleague / friend Rijon Erickson. He’s the one on the left above. A good chunk of Rijon’s work is combining music with group facilitation and group intelligence. Rijon invited me to a recent live-stream conversation on The Music of Mischief. And then he took chunks of our free-flowing conversation and made them to video clips.

One of those clips is here — on the importance of containers in group facilitation. And on the importance of containers so as to take on difficult conversations. It’s 2.5 minutes. I got to share some of my most grounding beliefs about containers.

Enjoy a listen.

How good it is to follow curiosity. Personally. And in community. How good it is to stay simple. How good it is to have a few guides in the form of potent questions.

Lisa Hess and I co-hosted a Flow Game last week. Above are questions drawn randomly from The Flow Game’s six decks — North, West, South, East, Heaven, Earth.

What joy to gain insight through such simple format.

What a delight!

An unhurried conversation about “unhurried as a practice of peace.” Enjoy it here.

And a little on:

• aging
• exploring with hints and clues as way of being
• claiming life flowing and being claimed
• tiny shifts
• saying yes and on saying no

It’s human to human.

Well there’s a purpose statement I relate to. On what Circle offers. With plain-speak simplicity.

I particularly enjoyed a conversation yesterday with a Circle colleague and friend. We shared a few stories.

In addition to these clarities of unhurried and uninterrupted, she added purpose — “…when a lot is at stake.”

Why Circle?

For that. For all that unhurried and uninterrupted speaking and listening can heal and bring to life.

In October, Rangineh Azimzadeh Tehrani and I will host a Circle Intensive. To explore such notions. And to encourage practice. To hone and nuance. To encourage meaning and simplicity.

Wanna dive together? I do.