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Circling and the “We-Space” Movement

The Circling and Authentic Relating movement is only the latest instantiation – although the largest and fastest-growing one – of a number of schools and practice communities which share similar goals and philosophy (although different practices). These communities could be considered as going under the general umbrella group of what has come to be known as “we-space”.  I am listing some of these schools below, in rough historical sequence of creation. Most of the schools listed below evolved separately (or earlier) than Circling. A few are direct applications (or derivations) of Circling and Authentic Relating into real-world problems. Some of these are covered more extensively on the website, www.CirclingGuide.com in the Resources section.

For the record, here is my curated list of “we-space” schools and communities. There are many more, of course, but these are some of the most popular ones (the ones covered on the website are marked with a triple-Asterisk ***).

  • Teilhard de Chardin and the “Noosphere” (1922)
  • Martin Buber’s book I and Thou (1923)
  • Attachment Theory – John Bowlby and others (1958) ***
  • Non-Violent Communication – Marshall Rosenberg (~1972) ***
  • Integral Theory – Ken Wilber (~1977), with contributions by Sri Aurobindo, Jean Gebser, Haridas Chaudhuri, Don Beck and others ***
  • Sociocracy – John Buck and others (~1978) ***
  • Focusing – Eugene Gendlin (1982) ***
  • Bohm Dialogue – David Bohm (~1983)
  • Hakomi – Ron Kurtz (~1990)
  • Restorative Justice – Howard Zehr (1990)
  • Network For a New Culture (US-based) and ZEGG in Germany (1991) ***
  • Waking Down in Mutuality – Saniel Bonder (1995) ***
  • Somatic Experiencing – Peter Levine (~1997) ***
  • Inner-Relationship Focusing – Ann Weiser Cornell (~1997) ***
  • Circling – Guy Sengstock and Jerry Candelaria (~1998). “Authentic Relating” came a few years later
  • The Art of Hosting – Toke Møller and Ria Baeck (~ 2000)
  • Theory U and Presencing – Otto Sharmer (~2004)
  • Pacific Integral’s Generate Transformative Change Program (~2004)
  • Authentic Man Program – Decker Cunov and Brian Bayer (2004), and later Authentic Woman Experience ***
  • Thomas Hübl’s teachings on awakening in relationships (~2004)
  • Collective Presencing – Ria Baeck (~2006)
  • Mutual Awakening and the Evolutionary Collective – Patricia Albere (2007) ***
  • A Small Group – Peter Block (~2008)
  • Heart IQ – Christian Pankhurst’s (~2009)
  • Ten Directions Integral Facilitator Training – Diane Hamilton and Rob McNamara (~2012)
  • Avalon Dharma – Alanja Forsberg (~2015) ***
  • The Power of 8 – Lynne McTaggart (2018)
  • Seek Healing and Relational Nutrition – Addiction recovery in Asheville NC (~2018) ***
  • Awakening from the Meaning Crisis – John Vervaeke (2019) ***
  • Authentic Singles – Marc & Rebekah Beneteau (2019) ***
  • Self-Circling ***
  • Withholds – Victor Baranco and others ***

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  • Developmental Circling Introduction – Saturday Jan. 9, 1-2:30pm EST

Authentic Relating Organizations

  • Circling Institute (San Francisco and Global)
  • Circle Anywhere (Global)
  • Circling Europe (Europe and North America)
  • Authentic Revolution (Global)
  • ART International (Global)
  • Connection Institute (Boston)
  • The Connection Movement (New York City)
  • Austin Circling Studio (Austin, TX)
  • Authentic Relating Go (Quebec & Global)
  • Evolutionary Relating (Australia)
  • Circling Cornwall (UK)
  • Let’s Be Authentic (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Realness Project (Prison work)

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Quotes

  • “There is no place to get to but more here” — Decker Cunov, co-founder of Circling
  • “You will always outlive my concept of you. And I will always have a concept for you to outlive” — Guy Sengstock, founder of Circling
  • “Pain is not a punishment, pleasure is not a reward… good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness” — Pema Chodron
  • “If we were all to sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality” — Kahlil Gibran
  • “No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care” — Theodore Roosevelt
  • “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand. They listen with the intent to reply” — Stephen Covey
  • “Trust that people move towards wholeness, and we just have to follow” — Alexis Shepperd, co-founder of the Authentic Woman Experience
  • “Depression is the reward we get for being ‘good’ ” — Marshall Rosenberg
  • When we are angry, killing people is too superficial — Marshall Rosenberg
  • “You don’t need to get what you want if you can express what you want” — Strephon Kaplan-Williams

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