Cross-posting from my post on thecircleway.net – may it be helpful! …. With many people finding themselves suddenly shifting their in-person circles and meetings to virtual/online, here are some previous blog posts and resources that might be useful: A case for online circles: A story that might help ease others’ concerns about shifting to an […]
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While I was looking for some design notes I came across this sweet little harvest summary put together by co-host Tenneson Woolf. It was from The Circle Way at Work two day workshop in 2018, offered in Australia with our circle mate Penny Hamilton, and captured some essence responses to the check-out question “From these two […]
Lovely to share this article by Carla Fisher (from Leadership Snohomish County) about a gathering I had the pleasure of hosting this year. Click here to read. Self-directed visionaries plant seeds of community progress
I was recently invited to join a school board and school district senior management team for a half-day session. The board experienced a big changeover after the recent election, going from a collective 91 years of service to six years, along with a new superintendent and other newer members of the senior management team. The […]
Thank you to Jim Strader-Sasser, an Episcopal priest and recent participant at The Circle Way Practicum held August 2018 on Whidbey Island, for sharing his reflection on his practicum experience. There were 24 of us together, from varied backgrounds. As Jim describes, we were in a full field of learning and practice. You can read […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]