- 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
Newsletter Archive
Community News – October 2022
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
(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
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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Community News – March 2022
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This will be a bit brief as I am in Guatemala without much bandwidth, emotional or data-wise.
- SeekHealing and Jason Digges are joining up to offer a 12-week professional training called Listening Training II: Facilitate the healing power. If you don’t know about SeekHealing, you should. They have been applying Authentic Relating to addiction/trauma recovery and “deaths of depair” for at least 4 years, and I am guessing this training is the long-awaited push to take the program national (it started in Asheville NC). It’s a course for all Social Health Professionals, and particularly if you would like to start a SeekHealing center in your locality, or bring AR into your work as a social worker or addiction specialist. Also the price is very reasonable compared to similar trainings ($1500).
- ART International continues innovating. Check out ART Level 1: Nature Edition ~ April 2 & 3 in Joshua Tree,
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Circling Evangelist hits the streets in Guatemala: successes and humblings
Background for this post
In late January I traveled to Guatemala on a 3-month adventure that is ongoing. The location is a village called San Marcos La Laguna, Lake Atitlan, 4-5 hours west of Guatemala City. I went because I had enough of Covid restrictions and wanted to practice building community on-the-ground. It was also time for a new adventure. I left behind my Little House on the Prairie in which I was physically very content, but yearning for more connection.
As a bit of context here, San Marcos is one of the half-dozen most popular “consciousness hot-spots” on the planet, in the sense of being havens for people looking for fun and transformation: professional travelers, hippies, new-agers, consciousness entrepreneurs, crypto geeks and libertarians, etc. (the other places include Bali, Koh Phangan in Thailand, Pisac Peru, and Mazunte Mexico where I will be heading in the final month for a … Continue reading....