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Please support Shana James, Realness Project, Sheri Hauser and more

December 15, 2021 By marc Leave a Comment

Shana James is fundraising for her new book, Honest Sex

Shana James (legendary circler, co-founder of the Authentic Women Experience, dating and relationship coach), has a fundraiser going for her new book, Honest Sex. Please support Shana’s work in bringing more authenticity to sexuality. And get a copy of the book too!

Realness Project is also in fundraising season

If you are not aware of the Realness Project, you should be. They are bringing Authentic Relating to prisons — mostly (if not all) volunteer — and having a lot of success with it. I don’t have a lot of money and hence limited in my ability to provide financial support to good causes, but this is one I am in on. (I am also in on SeekHealing as another first-tier charity).

ART International has a new community platform, the Artland

ART International (do they ever stop?) has a new community platform, the Artland (based on Mighty Networks), currently free for graduates. Also, if you are feeling the stress of the holidays (including relating to those infuriating people who birthed you and/or grew up with you) check out the free webinar Authentic Relating for the Holidays with Ryel Kestano, tomorrow, Thursday 12/16 at 5pm Pacific.

Sheri Hauser podcasts (including interview with Jason Digges)

Unbeknownst to me until recently, Sheri Hauser (from Pink Noise Posse) and now with the Realness Project has been podcasting interviews of leaders and guides within the AR movement (and related) for years. Especially check out the great interview with Jason Digges. If you like, subscribe to her podcast on Apple podcasts. (I also liked the recent Susan Campbell episode, who was doing her work way before AR was invented)

I am continuing enrollments for Circling Masterminds (for January start)

We have one very strong Circling Mastermind group going and I would like 1-2 more group to begin in January. If we get more than one group meeting at the same time weekly, we can break out randomly into two groups (which would be amazing as it would increase the “relational density” of the groups while preserving the power of the small group format). I run free introductions every Thursday now at 2pm Eastern. Get details on the Circling Guide Calendar and/or book a discovery call with me if you think you may want to join a January group.

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