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Free Workshop: The Art of Authentic Relating & Circling

May 15, 2025 By marc Leave a Comment

Tuesday May 20, 11:30am Eastern / 5:30pm CET

Discover How Authentic Relating (AR) & Circling Can Transform Your Personal Relationships and Communities

Watch this 50 minute recording to get a taste of what the ARC is about. It’s a 50-minute recording of a workshop that we ran on May 20. 

Why Attend? 

Do you ever feel like your conversations lack depth? Like you’re stuck in small talk, craving real connection but unsure how to create it?

Or maybe you’ve noticed that misunderstandings and emotional friction keep showing up in your relationships—leaving you frustrated, disconnected, and lonely?

What if you had a powerful way to:
✅ Deepen your relationships—with friends, partners, family, and even strangers
✅ Communicate in a way which leads to depth and transformation
✅ Turn conflicts into connection—instead of tension or resentment
✅ Feel more alive in conversations
✅ Lead and influence by being fully present, rather than talking more.
✅ Experience relationships where you feel seen, heard, and valued—professionally and personally.

This Is What Authentic Relating & Circling Can Make Possible.

Authentic Relating is the art of attuning and communicating to the unspoken—leading from curiosity, empathy, and embodied presence. Circling is the practice that trains this skill in real-time.

Who Is This For?

✔ Community Builders who want to connect and inspire.
✔ Coaches/Therapists ready to deepen client breakthroughs.
✔ Partners/Parents seeking more authentic connections.
✔ Anyone tired of “surface-level” interactions

What’s Inside the Full Course?

After the webinar, go beyond  by attending our 6-week course, Authentic Relating in Community in which we will also look at:
✨ What is it like to be you? And how authentic do you dare to be? 
✨ How well can you express what you really feel? 
✨ Are you able to listen with your mind and your heart? 
✨ Can you stay in connection with another person and yourself simultaneously?
✨ Do you experience moments of “Magic” in groups? And what happens when you want to connect, but can’t? 

These are the types of questions we might explore together in the full course. 

“Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.” — Brené Brown

Can’t attend in person? Sign-up and receive a limited recording

Authentic Relating is a super-intimate container, and therefore it is highly recommended you attend in person. If this is not possible due to your schedule, we will send you a partial recording of the event. 

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Meet Your Workshop Leaders

Marco Beneteau (course leader).  Marco is the author of the Circling Guide, the most popular book on the practice of Circling within the Authentic Relating tradition, along with its draft sequel Relational Power. Both books are offered on the gift economy. He has been running these groups for 7 years, representing about 1500 hours of practice to date. 

Sophie Nicole Lemperle-McGrath (co-leader) is the founder of Connecting circle (in German), a Gestalt and AR facilitator, mediator and “Getting Real” Coach.

All of her life Sophie has been fascinated by interpersonal dynamics and the question of what constitutes a strong foundation in all kinds of relationships – private or professional. Can we learn to love? How do we use conflicts as learning opportunities and convert the conflict energy into more connection? ​

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Authentic Relating Organizations

  • Circling Institute (San Francisco and Global)
  • The Relateful Company  (previously CircleAnywhere (Global)
  • Circling Europe (Europe and North America)
  • ART International (Global)
  • Authentic Relating Go (Global)
  • Connection Institute (Boston & Global)
  • The Connection Movement (New York City)
  • Austin Circling Studio (Austin, TX)
  • Evolutionary Relating (Australia)
  • Circling Cornwall (UK)
  • Let’s Be Authentic (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Realness Project (Prison work)
  • The Awkward Leadership School (Toronto)
  • Integral Centered Leadership (Boulder, CO)

Local communities can be found on Meetup.com and on the Authentic Revolution communities map

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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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Relational Power: Win Friends, Influence Others, and End Loneliness Through the Practice of Authentic Relating

 


Broke, Single, Crazy and Old: The Redemption of a Sex and Love Addict

 


As Lovers Do: a Manual for Men

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