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, […]
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Excited to share this video of me talking about hosting real conversation, the ancient practice of circle, hosting yourself, and using powerful questions. Gratitude to Ryan Mah & Mahyar Saeedi for their talented video production and editing, and for including me in the Designed to Speak series. If you are curious about learning about circle process, consider joining […]
As part of my preparation for the Art of Hosting on Bowen Island in February I have been reflecting on what’s alive in my work these days. An Art of Hosting learning experience is not delivered from a standard curriculum that we dust off and teach. Rather, it is informed by what inquiries participants bring […]
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Check-in Question Ideas
Circle practice is the foundation of my work – whether in core team planning meetings or when we gather for retreats, conferences, meetings and more. And circle is more than just the chairs rearranged. There are various components that help make it a strong social structure (agreements, centre, host, guardian, check-in/check-out, talking piece, and the […]
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Heart Egging You On
A little exchange on Marianne Knuth’s blog, jamming on her post and mine from last night. Marianne wrote: And what an apt reminder to not hold on so tightly to the hope for change, but do whatever it is we do, because it is the right thing to do. And not, I think, from a […]
In my travels for great questions I came across this gift from Liz Rykert who extracted the questions Peggy Holman shared in her book Engaging Emergence. I frequently go back to Peggy’s book and appreciate being able to save her sequence of great questions here: How can we use our differences and commonalities to make a difference? […]
Appreciating an email exchange about the question that would be at the core of an Open Space Technology event. The client offered the following: How do we let go of the hurts of the past? Where are we going? What can we expect in the future? Which was massaged into a version that wanted to invite […]
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Questions Questions
One of the delights in my days is to harvest great questions I come across. Here are some shared in the PeerSpirit Circle Tale September 2012 : In congregational life, significant questions can start groups on a quest from being a congregation to being a community. Some of these questions might be: Who are you? Why are […]
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Silly Games
My final mini-harvest from my time at the Applied Improv Network Conference. This one from Viv McWaters (who I finally met after knowing her on Twitter for almost three years). We were in a lovely breakout session swapping games and had finished playing a game some might call silly. The game was Lame Duck, where […]
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Making Room: Sad and Glad
I really appreciated this story invitation shared by Tova Averbuch on the Open Space Technology listserv: As a way of making room for this process of… (the question of the OST) let us start with a story telling circle. We are calling for stories that you feel moved to tell, stories that want to be […]