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Responsibility, Healing, Hypocrisy

Peter Munthe-Kaas 8 July 2026

You don't have to be fully developed to say that something is off.

The history of Authentic Relating and Circling by Jason Digges

The History of Authentic Relating and Circling Practice

Jason Digges 19 March 2026

This is the evolution and history of the practices of Authentic Relating and Circling that facilitators should know.

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Attunement: How do you make beautiful music?

Andrew Venezia 18 February 2026

We can clue in to what Attunement is by looking at the word’s roots. In English, the earliest uses of the word meant “to tune an instrument.’ You can get a sense of this in paying attention —really paying attention — to something: sitting actively, and waiting, you come into a kind of resonance with what you’re paying attention to.

Birthday Circling

Peter Munthe-Kaas 28 January 2026

Birthday Circling is a great practice for finding deep intimacy with another human being. The simple act of offering attention and curiosity to one persons present moment experience for a set amount of time often leads to a lot of beauty.

Diane Hamilton workshop developing emotional maturity and liberating lifeforce

Developing Emotional Maturity & Liberating Lifeforce

Peter Munthe-Kaas 4 January 2026

The core teaching of the workshop is that we can learn to relate to our feelings and emotions in ways that will lead to less suffering for ourselves and others. In some way it is simple. Relate with the emotion fully – really feel it. Then disidentify from it and let it go. Emotional maturity is just this – allowing ...

I want to live the rest of my time well

Peter Munthe-Kaas 2 December 2025

At a weekend workshop I led recently I got in touch with how often I get in the way of really living the way I want. The way it came to me in this workshop was: “I want to live the rest of my time well.”

Attuned Movement

Mareike Christensen 27 October 2025

With this game, we listen to others and how they move. This game invites groups to move while widening their awareness to include a whole group.

When we say no to love

Peter Munthe-Kaas 27 October 2025

We are all saying no to love. When we dont trust our embodied knowing of others and make ourselves more separate than we are. When we go too far that way we go into projection from resentment or from our own wounding. But it is possible to speak from our true knowing of others.

The Curiosity Game

Peter Munthe-Kaas 27 October 2025

The Curiosity Game is a great exercise for quickly landing in connection with friends or strangers. It allows for quite deep meetings within a very short timeframe and is great for introductions and beginnings of events.

Peter Munthe-Kaas eyes in black and white

Awareness: A gift of freedom

Peter Munthe-Kaas 16 October 2025

Awareness can bring the beautiful gift of seeing new possibilities for being in the world. It opens the blackbox of Me and allows me to see my doing as object. However, becoming aware of my own doing comes with its own traps.

Honesty Gathering 2025

Peter Munthe-Kaas 24 September 2025

Generally I felt a lot of trust during the Honesty Gathering. It was easygoing and I enjoyed the humility of everyone who was leading there. It was such a contrast to the pressure to perform and conform that I felt at the Field festival earlier this year and I appreciated it a lot.

Awakening through Art and Meditation

Peter Munthe-Kaas 22 September 2025

I thoroughly enjoyed the mix of guided meditation and painting practice. I found the whole experience to be simple in the best way and found it just lovely to get to express myself through art.

The Field Festival

Peter Munthe-Kaas 10 September 2025

This was the first year of the Field festival and I imagine that the organizers will have a lot of thoughts about what to improve before next year. It is very likely that my experiences has a lot to do with this being the first year of a very ambitious project. However I am wondering if there was a more ...

David Brundige during the Surrendered Leadership weekend in Amsterdam April 26–27 2025

Surrendered Leadership as God, Guru & Self

David Brundige 10 August 2025

In a Surrendered Leadership circle without an enlightened leader, I trust the practice itself to hold the context. The more I surrender to the practice as God, the more my leadership takes a formless shape to receive all forms in Love.

The Emerge Podcast

Anežka Marie Sokol 14 June 2025

Thematically, Emerge covers a wide spectrum, from metamodernism and sensemaking to meditation, relational practices, and political reimagination. The conversations often weave together philosophy, psychology, and spirituality, offering fresh perspectives on how humans can navigate the uncertainties of the present and co-create more meaningful futures.

Three people told me I’m a horse’s ass

Rósanna Seigi Róbertsdóttir 25 March 2025

I am looking into love addiction as a possible rascal sabotaging my imagined intention to co-create a lasting loving relationship. At the heart of love addiction lies the tendency to make another person a higher power, says Pia Mellody (author of Facing love addiction). The road to lasting sobriety involves cultivating a relationship with an appropriate higher power, which can genuinely ...

How Minds Change

Peter Munthe-Kaas 18 March 2025

A great book on how to help others change their minds. Put shortly, it's never about giving them the facts that you find useful, but always about creating a safe container and then really listening to them while they investigate their own process of reasoning.

When God becomes the man I’m hot for

Rósanna Seigi Róbertsdóttir 7 March 2025

I have created quite the exquisitely dynamic polarized yumzum rating the men I’ve loved as superior – not only to myself but to all the beings of the universe on all the planes. Giving these men more power than they actually have – their power plus my disowned projected power plus plus plus – is sexy, and it comes at a ...

Rósanna Seigi Róbertsdóttir in Costa Rica

I yelled at him and all beings were simultaneously awakened

Rósanna Seigi Róbertsdóttir 19 February 2025

I’m in a hotel room in the paradisiac town of Santa Teresa, Costa Rica, shouting at my lover (it’s complicated) on the phone. My own voice startles me, and in some secret corner of my being I’m impressed. Watching myself act this way is strangely enlivening – a personality bound by conflict averse enneagram 9 sensibility. Bows to my mirror, ...

The Tao of Leadership

Peter Munthe-Kaas 21 November 2024

I really enjoyed this one. Someone recommended it to me a couple of years ago, but I just got around to reading it this autumn. The author uses the structure from the Dao De Jing to write about leadership in general and group leadership specifically.

A deeper sense of service

Peter Munthe-Kaas 29 July 2024

One night a few years ago I was sitting on a beach with a friend, feeling completely amazed by seeing her in her power. As we were sitting there it was as if I could see mythical world around us and her as a magical being. It felt very new for me. I felt humbled sitting there. And stupid in ...

David Brundige holding Martje Witzel at the Transformational Connection festival

Surrendered Leadership: the ecstasy of practicing collective wisdom

David Brundige 26 September 2023

This summer at the International Circling Festival in the Netherlands, in a 100-person circle, I reached a new level of clarity about one transformational form of the practice called Surrendered Leadership.

The Dao of Circling & Surrendered Leadership

Peter Munthe-Kaas 12 August 2023

The aim of this article is to delineate some Circling skills in the hope that it that can be supportive for the leadership development of the reader. I have used my Tai Chi practice and the 8 “energies” of Tai Chi as the structure for describing some fundamental skills or “moves” within the Circling practice.

Endlessly waiting as life goes by

Peter Munthe-Kaas 28 April 2023

I heard a piece of poetry at a Circling and Surrendered Leadership weekend I recently led. A participant described his experience as “endlessly waiting as life goes by” and that struck a deep resonance in me.

Circling and Surrendered Leadership

Peter Munthe-Kaas 30 January 2022

I remember my first circling experience as quite confusing and frustrating, but something was also awakened in me that I wanted to explore further. I soon after signed up for the 6 month SAS training with Circling Europe and certified as a circling leader in February 2016.

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