The Healing Circle
Jodi Rosner utilizes an ancient practice of sitting in a circle and sharing stories to facilitate open and honest communication in workplaces, schools and community groups. Non-judgmental listening is integral to her method which has the power to transform both personal and professional relationships. Participants come to respect one another and recognize the value of their own unique contributions.
ABOUT JODI ROSNER
Her company, LA Circleworks (www.lacircleworks.com), works with already established groups to develop connection and to reach common and/or individual goals, conducts trainings in ways to employ this practice, and creates beautiful one-of-a-kind ceremonies for special events. Jodi is also a Stanford-educated lawyer, a mother, a yogini and a capoeirista. Jodi can be reached at (323) 868-5638.
Circling for Personal Growth
Over the weekend, I was in Seattle celebrating my nephew Avi’s bar mitzvah. For those unfamiliar, a bar mitzvah is a Jewish ceremony at around age 13 that marks a boy’s transition into adulthood for purposes of participation in religious…
Secret Council
When waiting in line to check out at the market, do you sometimes see people talking on their cell phones from the time they get in the line until they leave the store? They fail to even notice the…
Circles in the Workplace
I recently came across an article written by Martha Finney, an author of more than 13 books on the American workplace and an employee engagement consultant for companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Starwood Resorts, AOL, Yahoo and Disney. Her words substantiate…
A Holiday Circle
My brother married a woman who takes her Judaism fairly seriously. So when over the spring break, I took my two girls to visit my brother’s family in Seattle, he planned to host a Passover Seder with a few other…
Circle Personae
Something interesting happens to particularly gregarious or talkative people when they hold the talking piece. Well, at least that’s what I’ve noticed.
They are two men in my family who are always the center of attention at any gathering, whether…
A Reflection on Council 1 Training
At the end of February I led an Introduction to Council weekend at The Ojai Foundation. “Council” is the circle practice that is at the heart of my business venture and my work in the schools, and the weekend was…
Are we just voyeuristic?
Yesterday I was listening to “This American Life,” one of my favorite radio shows, and there was a story about a popular national television program from the 1950s called “This is Your Life.” On that show, an unsuspecting guest would…
Why Storytelling in the Business Context?
Storytelling is at the heart of my circle practice. I don’t mean storytelling in the sense of fairy tales or fantasies or fictional accounts, but the tales of our real life experiences. When facilitating a circle, I help people tap…
A Valentines Day Circle
click here for info. about a healing workshop in ojai feb. 25-27
Sunday I gathered a group for a circle centered on the theme of love in honor of that oh-so-loaded-holiday, Valentines Day. While people entered, I asked
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Listening
Listening is one of the basic secrets of achieving spiritual and mental health. Listening means passivity. Listening means receptivity.
Listening means forgetting yourself completely. Only when you forget yourself can you listen… and only when you listen attentively
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