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Community News — September 2022

September 1, 2022 By marc Leave a Comment

(Again an apology for skipping summer editions of the newsletter, I have had a bit of a crazy summer. Some significant personal news below this)

  • Jason Digges is doing another iteration of the Empowered Offerings, 10-week Business Accelerator. This is specifically for people visioning and launching relational businesses, but it looks to me like it would be of value for any type of business. It’s worth reading the sales page just for inspiration, even if you are not a candidate for the program. The price at $950 is also extremely reasonable.
  • Sara Ness is back to teach one final version of the Authentic Life Course, 8 weeks starting Sept. 25. Sara is retiring from AuthRev, apparently (it’s the talk of the town), so this is probably your last opportunity to take ALC with her.
  • Circling Europe hosted an epic Circling Festival. I am definitely planning for next year (Imshallah), it will be July 29-Aug 3rd, 2023. They have no less than Three SAS’s starting soon (Amsterdam, Zurich and Online) along with a another Circling Coaching Training on Sept. 27, and a Closed Circling Group starting Sept. 17.
  • Circling Institute is now offering CEU credits for Art of Circling! They have another Circling & Dialogos Oct, 1 & 2) (with John Vervaeke, that’s so cool) and a Sovereign Workshop Oct, 14-15
  • ART International continues cranking (do they ever rest?), offering Five Online Level 1’s and Three  Online Level 2’s, this fall, in addition to on-the-ground programs in Austin, Boulder, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Portland, Denver, London, Miami, Stockholm, Utrecth, and Ubud Bali. I am particularly excited by the Baltimore Level 1 on Oct. 22-23, as I ran some events there some years back, and my friend Mike Jadoo asked me for assistance in promoting it.
    Anyway — if you’ve never done an ART Level 1, you are going to be blown away. I don’t know how they manage to keep on producing the volume and quality of courses that they do.

Reminder: I post smaller events to this list as well (as opposed to just events from the heavy-weights). Just let me know a bit in advance.

Personal news: on the road again, and new book

I am moving to an Intentional Community in New Mexico in November! And taking the opportunity for an extended road trip in October covering Philadelphia, DC, Baltimore, what I call the “Intentional community triangle” (area bounded by Richmond VA, Charlottesville and Fredericksburg), Asheville NC, and Austin TX, ending in Albuquerque NM. If you want me to host an event for you, or else if you are interested in A/R in intentional community (I have a lot of content coming soon there), just ping me (easiest is probably to reply to this mail).

And finally — drum-roll — I have a new book, Relational Leadership and Emotional Communication: Authentic Relating as Access to Power, which is currently flowing out of me like the Niagara Falls (its been brewing a long time). Stay tuned to this list as I will have some sample chapters available at the next newsletter. It’s essentially the sequel to the Circling Guide.and a major evolution of my development as a leader and author.

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  • “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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