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Relational Power: Call for engagement

December 22, 2022 By marc Leave a Comment

Very exciting news! The draft of my new book, Relational Power Part 1, has now been published to all channels. including web, Kindle, Paperback and free download. 

Can you help me out?

I want to get A/R more into the mainstream (to give it, say, equal visibility to NVC). I have this bold idea (maybe narcissistic-deluded, but WTF) to crowd-source the new book. I am soliciting readers, reviewers, editors and volunteer marketing partners, and examples and case-studies of personal transformations through the A/R practice.

I can’t write this book from my knowledge and characterology alone (because it is an unusual one). It’s a book about a movement and a transformational practice — arguably the most powerful, open-source human developmental practice ever invented. If you agree with this statement, and you have a few spare cycles to give me in your (probably) busy life, then …

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How to be authentic and loving in an emotionally illiterate culture

December 22, 2022 By marc 2 Comments

The desire to love and be loved, to “know and be known”, to be seen and acknowledged for our unique gifts and contributions, and to feel part of a group who sees us and cares for us, is a fundamental human need. In my frame it is THE fundamental human need outside of physical survival. It is a need that gets fulfilled (or not), every minute of the day through our interactions with people, be they friends, family, lovers, colleagues, or strangers at the check-out counter.

If you agree with this, then consider these questions:

First: Why does nobody talk about this, or even admit it (that their deepest desire is to love and be loved, and to be seen and acknowledged for their contributions)? Why do we (mostly) pursue these needs totally unconsciously, achieving success only by “accident” as it were? Why are our personal relationships, our communities and …

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Community News – Dec. 2022; plus new book “Relational Power”

December 8, 2022 By marc Leave a Comment

  • Authentic Revolution shutdown at the end of October..There was a lovely (and well-attended) virtual good-bye party, and Sara made a fascinating presentation including the history which you can find here (you open up chapters by clicking on them). A new version (v8) of the Authentic Relating Games manual is still available by donation here and now  on print too. Thank you, Sara and company, for leaving us with these riches.

    Unfortunately the online Connect Platform shut-down, but there are still plenty of places for online Circling, including CircleAnywhere, Authentic Relating Go, The Connection Institute, Circling Institute, Evolutionary Relating, the [new!] Together Connect, and more. Let me know your favorite (and I will include it next time), and also the AuthRev communities map is still being maintained (apparently) and shows all the local communities.

  • Evolutionary Relating in Australia has a new mini-course on vulnerability
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Community News – October 2022

September 28, 2022 By marc Leave a Comment

Community News – October 2022

Change is in the air, in both in the A/R community and with me personally.

  • Authentic Revolution is shutting down on October 31st. Sara Ness got a real job, at long last LOL. Details here. To summarize: (1) There will be a few community-led Authentic Leadership Trainings offered next year, along with an all-Texas retreat. (2) Geof Krum will continue the 15-week Authentic Facilitator Training under a new brand (I am very glad to hear this as there is probably 10-20,000 hours of development gone into this. It’s essentially the “second branch” of the A/R movement, the first branch being Circling). (3) The future of the COnnect platform is unclear. (4) Authentic Life Course will (probably) not be offered again, but will remain as video-on-demand. (5) The A/R Games Manual is being expanded and will soon be available in print.
    (6) Finally:
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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
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Community News – June 2022

June 10, 2022 By marc 1 Comment

Community News – June 2022

(Lots of news here, sorry this is late, I have been somewhat checked-out since my return from Guatemala, which was a watershed experience for me)

  • Authentic Revolution is transitioning due to Sara Ness resigning as CEO (Facebook post here). This is something of an industry bombshell. We don’t know for sure what programs will continue under new management, and which ones won’t. The Connect platform will probably continue (which makes me quite happy, their everyday morning small circles are wonderful). Stay tuned here for further information. In others news, Sara just finished a big European tour and had a rocking good time, by all accounts.
  • CircleAnywhere is also going through some changes (details here). Specifically: price is going up for the monthly membership (although it’s still dirt-cheap for the value provided); all session now require pre-registration; and (even more interesting) they are
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  • “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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Marco’s Books and Blogs


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

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  • Relational Power: Call for engagement
  • Quick check-in from “the land of enchanment”
  • Moving to New Mexico; two new books!
  • On the road again; life in the political cult; new book

RSS Manifesting Community Blog

  • Moved to Albuquerque, NM. New book!
  • Winter has arrived at Solidarity Collective! Plus exciting plans
  • New digs, new book, new life
  • New groups forming now; and other news
  • Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage (Rutledge, Missouri) — Visitor Program Review
  • On the road, in search of utopia

 


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

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  • Happy all the time with a low-grade CFS — is it possible?
  • Moving to New Mexico! New book!
  • Final days at Hridaya Yoga, Mazunte, Mexico
  • My Social Security disability hearing; a visit to the doctor and the dentist; and life in the communist commune in Wyoming

 


As Lovers Do: a Manual for Men

RSS The Man/Woman Game Archives – Authentic Singles

  • Online Dating and the Man/Woman Game: My Story
  • What Women Want: Towards a New Psychology of Love, Sex and Gender Relations
  • I have a Dream: the social-political context of love and sex

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