The History of Authentic Relating and Circling Practice
This is the evolution and history of the practices of Authentic Relating and Circling that facilitators should know.
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This is the evolution and history of the practices of Authentic Relating and Circling that facilitators should know.
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 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.
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 emotion to blossom and dissolve.
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.”
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.
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 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.
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.
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.