The circle represents wholeness. The best way to regenerate wholeness with its accompanying experiences and benefit synergy, collective wisdom, and genuine sharing, is to make frequent use of whole system meetings such as Open Space Technology, Whole Person Process Facilitation, World Café, and Appreciative Inquiry.
We can encounter ourselves and each other more fully if we can quiet the rational mind and learn to move into another state of consciousness. Comfort with silence is a gift. Silence is necessary to build relationship to self, to others, to Earth Mother. To truly hear the messages intended for us we must be silent. Restful, meditative silence is vital in everyday life. It can help us to focus, to be on target when we do move and act. (Fyre Jean Graveline).
One of the things I really loved about teaching in the interior is that I had an outside teaching space. So we used to do Circle on the ground, outside, underneath this big tree. I would really like to be able to teach Circle that way again. There's something missing in Circle when we have to sit in a box to do it! When we can't be sitting out on the ground, with the beautiful sky over our heads and the grass on our bums, the birds singing, and feel the sense of interconnectedness to all of creation, as we are there, because that's what brings the power to Circle.
The Genuine Contact Way is a lovely and inspiring approach to elegant, holistic living in today's world. Once you embrace its essence and its ingredients, you become part of the whole and can claim your special place in the circle of life.
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