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February 2025 Newsletter

February 8, 2025 By marc Leave a Comment

Headline news:

  • Circling Europe resigns the Circling trademark and rebrands (see below).
  • Jason Digges and I launch sliding-scale Authentic Relating courses.

What’s happening in the community?

  • The Global Eco-Village Network (GEN) is sponsoring a sliding-scale AR course, Authentic Relating in Community, led by Jason Digges and targeted to community builders and eco-villages. And my beloved wife (!) Sophie and I will be running another cohort of Practical Relational Leadership in Community. Both courses start March 4, with free introduction webinars on February 11 and February 25.
  • Relateful Camp is back this year, April 2-6 in Olympia, Texas (near Houston). Cost is $1400 and includes everything. I heard that last year’s event was so successful that half the tickets for next year sold-out immediately!
  • This year’s Transformational Connection Festival (previously the Circling™ Festival) will take place 16-20 August a few hours out of Amsterdam. The price is just 
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Discover the Power of Authentic Relating: A 90-Minute Live Webinar Experience — Tue. Feb. 25, 11:30am Eastern/ 5:30pm CET

January 26, 2025 By marc

The webinar has past, but below is a recording of the final 12-minute presentation which will give you more context for the courses and the difference between the ARC and PRLC. Alternatively, read the transcript here. 

If you are not yet on our mailing list for the GEN-sponsored courses, you can do that here. 

Learn more about the ARC and PRLC courses, and the difference between them, in this 12 minute video

 and/or watch Jason’s [earlier] presentation of the history of AR below this.

Upcoming courses:

  • Authentic Relating in Community (ARC) starts Tuesday March 4, 11:30am Eastern / 5:30pm CET for 6 weeks
  • Practical Relational Leadership in Community (PRLC) starts Tuesday March 4, 2pm Eastern / 8:00pm CET for 6 weeks

Secure your spot now by attending this introductory webinar!

Jason Digges introduces Authentic Relating in this 8 minute video

If you don’t know anything about the global Authentic …

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Discover the Power of Authentic Relating: A 90-Minute Live Webinar Experience — Tue. Feb. 11, 11:30am Eastern/ 5:30pm CET

January 23, 2025 By marc

Join our Global Eco-Village Network family  in this fun, experiential 90-minute  webinar in which you will learn how to apply the powerful practice of Authentic Relating to your community, family, business or social-change organization! Discover practical tools to create deeper, more meaningful connections in your relationships, and meet your peers engaged in a similar journey.

Note: the first 15 minute of this webinar will be recorded and re-broadcast. If you don’t know anything about Authentic Relating at all, please watch the 8 minute video below. before attending, if possible.

Sign-up to get the zoom link and reminders:

Make sure to  add the event to your calendar here.

Upcoming courses:

  • Authentic Relating in Community (ARC) starts Tuesday March 4, 11:30am Eastern / 5:30pm CET for 6 weeks
  • Practical Relational Leadership in Community (PRLC) starts Tuesday March 4, 2pm Eastern / 8:00pm CET for 6 weeks

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October/November 2024 Newsletter

October 12, 2024 By marc Leave a Comment

Happening times for me here, and for many of us in the community. See below my upcoming move to Germany to join my fiancée and our upcoming program. Also see below our forming an interest group for bringing AR into sexuality.

By the way, I want to be more diligent in putting out the monthly newsletter and tracking all the offers. If you want a mention here, just reply to this mail a week before the start of  the month with your offer(s) and I will include them. I also sometime pull events from the Weekly Roundup on the AR Facilitators Facebook (thanks for that, Sara).

What’s happening in the community

  • Sophie and I are starting a new cohort of Practical Relational Leadership in Community (PRLC) on  Tuesday October 22, Noon Eastern. There is also a Free intro tomorrow, Tuesday October 15. If are you ready to take
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Webinars and courses with Jason Digges and me start next week

September 7, 2024 By marc Leave a Comment

(sorry y’all, I am a bit behind as usual on the monthly newsletter. Please however stand-by for breakthrough news around the Circling brand)

In this issue of the Circling Guide Newsletter: 

Free AR webinars with Jason Digges on September 11 and 13

As part of Intentional Community (IC) focused courses this fall, sponsored by the Global Eco-Village Network, Jason Digges will be running two free webinars next week. Click-through below to get the Zoom link and reminders:

  • Harnessing the Gifts of Conflict: an Authentic Relating workshop — Wed. Sept 11, 7-8:30pm Eastern
  • Harnessing the Gifts of Conflict: an Authentic Relating workshop — Fri. Sept 13, Noon Eastern / 6pm CET

The “Harnessing the gifts of conflict” workshops are all-new material and exercises which Jason is revealing for the first time after his 20 years in the movement. I [Marco] witnessed these teachings for myself in Jason’s latest course, and I …

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Next PRL Cohort starts Aug. 20; Free webinars with Jason Digges

August 16, 2024 By marc Leave a Comment

***Breaking news***

  • The next Practical Relational Leaderhip (PRL) cohort begins Tuesday, Aug. 20 at 2pm Eastern. Four people are already registered (out of 6 max) and so its likely the group will fill. If I get more than 6, however, I will probably have Sophie co-lead, so you will be getting “two for the price of one”. Sophie is extraordinary. Registration instructions for the PRL can be found at the link above. Its still only $100 for the 4 weeks x 2 hours program.
    The PRL’s have proven themselves to be an excellent way to bring Relational Inquiry (similar to Circling™) to your friends, intentional community or project-group. You can read about my experiences running PRL’s in Mexico for details. Subscribe there if you like.
  • In preparation for our fall course launch of Intentional Community (IC) focused courses, Jason Digges will be running a series of free webinars
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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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