Posts Tagged circles
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…
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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The Healing Circle
How can a circle be healing? The practice I employ in my work derives its roots from native traditions worldwide. All of our ancestors once sat around a communal fire and shared stories of import in their lives. “Oki
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An Important “Meeting”
I’ve been hosting a circle in my home for several years and one of my favorite prompts (the question I put out to which people in the circle respond) is “Talk about an important meeting in your life.” What’s
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