INTERdependence Day: The Circling Institute Goes GLOBAL

INTERdependence Day: The Circling Institute Goes GLOBAL

The Circling® Approach Is Going GLOBAL!!!

As I took a walk this morning I was reflecting on how the messy, hurried, scuffle we went through in order to move TCI events online has afforded me the privilege of connecting with so many new, amazing, beings from all over the world!  And how, strangely, being confined to our homes for 90 days somehow resulted in us reaching far outside the Bay Area & practicing the Art of Circling with people from NorwayAustraliaChinaFrance, and India as well as most of the 50 US States!  It’s remarkable to think that a pandemic has been the single most impactful experience in helping us inch toward our goal of spreading the Circling Approach across the globe.

These experiences have inspired us to commit to
continue hosting Circling Events online…

Even as our home state of California begins to re-open.

~ THREE NEW WAYS TO EXPERIENCE
THE CIRCLING APPROACH ~

(1)  The Art of Circling Practitioner Training Program – formerly only available in the Bay Area – has been revamped and brought online. Find out more about that program including dates, registration, and how to get a  free coaching session from Guy Sengstock, Jon Cotton, or myself  here.   

(2) The Explorer: Getting Someone’s Worldworkshop will be offered online July 11 & 12th. You can find out more information about that workshop here.  Early bird pricing available for a few more days!

(3) A July 5th  INTERdependence Day Celebration!  We don’t know if there is an actual holiday for this but we think there should be…so this is our humble, gentle gesture of remembering how important every human being is in the fabric of life, and how important it is to practice learning how to listen and relate to each other is. In an effort to be more time-zone friendly… We are offering a 3 1/2  hour Authentic Relating & Circling event from 2-5:30pm PT on Sunday July 5th.

Spaces are limited, reserve yours here.

AND – Last but surely not least….

Guy’s Q&A + Circling Demo Session
for people interested in joining either the
July 11-12 Explorer Workshop
or the
Online Art of Circling Practitioner Training 

Saturday June 27th
10:30am-12pm PT

to register for that event, email [email protected]

Wishing you all a safe and restful summer.  I hope to see you (virtually) at one of our upcoming events.  And, eventually, IN PERSON again soon!!!

Big Love~

Korenna (and the TCI Team)

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Intimacy and Connection

Does relational intimacy scare you? Do you feel disconnected and lonely but afraid to step outside of your comfort enough to be vulnerable, reveal yourself, and ultimately connect with others?

I often wonder what can make this so hard for me and possibly you too. I was reminded of some of the answers to this when I was recently reading an essay by Kay Leigh Hagan from her book: The Wilderness of Intimacy: Control and Connection  I love what she wrote here:

“Intimacy is not a candlelit dinner for two. It cannot be contrived. Nor is it automatic, romantic, or necessarily even comfortable. Intimacy is a wilderness of sudden unpredictability, a dynamic of awareness, assertion, and courage. Intimacy occurs when I notice I am alive.”

In Circling speak I’d say that I felt her the most in this line, “ Intimacy is a Wilderness of sudden unpredictability”. Here’s what this means for me, when I reveal what’s really true to you, I have no control over your response. In fact, the thing that I want to say may even make you go away. For me, losing love is one of the biggest threats I could imagine. Why exactly would I want to put myself at that much risk?

This is a worthy question to ask that has definitely steered me away from saying the difficult truths in the past.

However, through the practice of Circling, I’ve come to learn that saying what’s true and then actively welcoming what’s next, has created more intimacy and connection than I could ever have imagined. So much so, that now I almost look forward to those moments that demand my courage and presence to speak my experience even if it may not be easy. I know that with each layer of masking or hiding that’s getting peeled away, I’m getting closer to you and in doing so, I feel seen, I see you and I feel fully alive and in the presence of love. Yes please!!!!

The word intimacy comes from the root word intimus… which means the innermost layer.

To share my innermost layer with you, I have to be willing to be vulnerable, to reveal myself and to share parts of myself that I’ve spent most of my life protecting. With time and the unconditional acceptance I’ve experienced in the practice of Circling, these protected parts of myself have been seen, heard and loved and I no longer feel the separation that hiding them can bring. Instead, I feel more connected and intimate with others as a result of revealing my innermost layers.

Circling provides a safe container and the skills to practice in the playground of intimacy. In order to share the innermost layer of myself, I first become aware of my own inner landscape and then gain the tools to articulate and share with others within a safe space.

For me, expanding on my capacity for intimacy has opened me up to intimacy not only with romantic partners but with my children, myself, my close friends as well as with life itself. When I take inventory of my relationships, I see richer, deeper and more meaningful connections and I’m grateful that my growth though Circling has allowed for this.

If reading this wakes up your desire for closeness and more meaningful relationships, come and join us in one of our upcoming trainings: https://circling.wpengine.com/programs/

~*~

Cathy

Upcoming Workshops

Tools for Extraordinary Connection -SF Feb 23rd

Sovereign (Your Presence) – Berkeley, CA March 2-3, 2019
($100 discount until Feb 18th)

Immersion Getting into Relationship – Asheville, NC March 9-10, 2019
($100 discount until Feb 28th)

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What is Circling… and What Does it Want?

THE ART OF CIRCLING

I believe: the deepest way you can love someone is to be willing to FULLY go on their ride.  To listen to them so deeply & so fully that you are willing to be changed, affected, impacted, even hurt – by your receiving of them. 

This is what Circling provides.

~  Guy Sengstock, Circling Institute Founder

One of theprivileges of being aleader at the Circling Instituteis getting invited todo podcast interviews and joyously share with folks all that I’ve learned throughthe practice ofCircling.Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down and speak with Peter Limberg & his Intellectual Explorers Podcast.

We covered in depth the 3 agreements underpinning Circling, the 7 Stages of Circling, and the origins of Circling & even went deep into the nature of truth and it’s connection to intimacy as well as the difference between narcissistic mirroring and being deeply seen.

What I loved about this one was how alive and spontaneous it was.My favorite part was when the interviewer called himself out as being in“interviewer mode” and decided he would fully “go on the ride” of the kind of deep listening we practice in Circling. This brought an aliveness to the interaction thatdrew out new insights & perspectives, and had me conceptualizing things in brand new ways.
 

I’m interested inhearing whatyou get from listening…let me know what you think over on our facebook page.

If hearing Guy speak about the Art of Circling felt inspiring to you
schedule a call to talk to Circling founder Guy Sengstock
about joining one of our Art of Circling Trainings

Don’t pass up your chance to deepen your relationships with your partner,
your kids, and your community…. and to develop the skills to be with your clients & colleagues in a profound, transformational way.

Upcoming Trainings & Workshops

Sovereign: Owning Your Presence July 20-21
$100 off full tuition through July 6

Tools for Extraordinary Connection August 11

Art of Circling Practitioner Training
$1000 off full tuition through September 30

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