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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 making a free intro event available. Share with your friends!
• Circling Europe is hosting the yearly International Circling Festival in the Netherlands July 30 – Aug. 3. That will be an event for sure.
• The Circling Institute is now holding drop-in Circling in Asia/Pacific time zones! Register here for the June 25 event.
• ART International is hosting Summer of Connection. This includes The ART of Being Human Level 1 (in person) in London, California and Costa Rica; and two online versions of the same course starting June 20 or so. There is also an ART Level 1 Embodied Edition starting July 18.
• And about me: I am changing my offer from “Mastermind Circles” to 6-week courses in Relational Leadership through the art of Circling. These will be limited to 6 participants (or 12 participants with a co-lead, this will make it more interesting as breakouts are always 6 or less and will rotate) and will be very attractively priced at $150. I will also be resuming the weekly donation event. Stay tuned for details.

Join me for an 8-week Masculine Mastery Course starting this Sunday June 12

I recently attended a webinar with Guy Shahar of the Tantra Institute of New York and signed-up on the spot for his 8 week course Masculine Mastery. You can read more of my story around this here, and also watch the very compelling 7 minute video of how “Rocky” redefined success. 

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, CA (man, I wish I could be there), The Authentic Woman starting April 20, The ART of Authentic Dating starting March 31, and more The Circling Institute is also doing interesting things.This already happened, Dia-Logos & The Circling Method, with John Vervaeke. It peaked my curiosity because I am beginning to see Circling as a container for any kind of wisdom conversation. I heard good reports about that workshop From the blog: Circling Evangelist hits the streets in Guatemala: successes and humblings 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 yoga retreat). There are transformational and networking events happening here all day, every day, despite it being a quite small village. These events include AR and now Circling. ART International ran a Level 1 here in early January. Continue reading on the Circling Guide Blog…

Community News Roundup – January/February 2022

• Jason Digges and Gabe DeRita are offering a 10-week business accelerator for AR leaders called Empowered Offerings. This is for you if you are an emerging AR leader looking to have an impact and increase your income. And the price is right ($850 through Feb. 11).
• Authentic Revolution is launching the next iteration of The Authentic Facilitator on March 21, 2022. This is (I believe) the 4th or 5th iteration of this course and it keeps on getting better. In addition to Jason and Gabe’s course (above), this is THE training to take if you want to get traction in an AR-related career. Their flagship Authentic Life course (3 levels) continues, of course, and they have now added a 4th level called Mastermind.
• The Circling Institute has a new baby! (I mean a real one, produced by Guy & Breann rather than the Circling Institute, exactly). The other cool babies are a new workshop, Dia-Logos & The Circling Method, which is inspired by John Vervake’s Awakening from the Meaning Crisis ; and another Sovereign Weekend coming up Jan. 29.
• ART International is cranking, as usual, with ongoing Authentic Leadership Program offerings (Feb. 22 and March 3 start dates); new courses The ART of the Authentic Woman (April 20) and The ART of the Authentic Man (Feb. 28 — soon!), and intensives all over the world (including one in Guatemala that I just missed! See below).

Reminder, that if you have offers you want the community to know, just write to me before the 1st of the month for inclusion in the newsletter (that would be March 1st as I am a bit late in producing this newsletter)

Personal news: I am moving to Guatemala! And a new video on Relational Leadership

I am firing on all cylinders as well. The committed Circling Mastermind groups have been very powerful, and we are doing free intros most Thursdays at 2pm Eastern now (check our calendar for details). I am also moving to Guatemala! That story told on my personal blog, From Little House on the Prairie to Guatemala.

AND, I just finished a new video, Relational leadership, developmental trauma and characterology. The production quality is not great but I am very proud of this video, as I think I am demonstrating the Authentic Relating process even as I speak about it (i.e. intense vulnerability, especially when I speak about the challenges of my own characterology). Let me know if you like it.

Community News Roundup – December 2021

• Authentic Revolution is starting another Authentic Life Course on December 11. They also have a new professional training program, Authentic Facilitator, that is very impressive, and starting very soon (Nov. 30 and January 10). Sara Ness and Geof Krum traveled all over interviewing and filming skilled facilitators. The content goes way beyond simple AR, and they have also put together a heavy-hitter team which includes Megan Taylor Morrison and Jason Digges . There is a good chance I will take this course myself once I am done with the Level Up.
• Peter Will Benjamin and The Connection Institute is presenting a free workshop, How Honest Are We Really Being on Thursday Dec 2 at 2pm EST. They are also starting a new cohort of Relational Leadership Academy (in person) in January, doing a new UnTriggered course starting January 11, and ongoing Parts Theater and Badass Boundaries workshops.
• ART International has too much going on for me the enumerate here. Just let me mention ART of Leadership Level 3 in Bali and Costa Rica in 2022, a new program The ART of Authentic Dating which starts Dec. 2 (intro webinar recording here), and quite a few more.
• The Circling Institute has an online Explorer Weekend on Dec. 18-19, along with their usual Thursday evening (6pm PST) drop-in Circling
• Josh Stein from the (newly-rebranded) Awkward Leadership School has an Art of Being Real mini-intensive on Dec. 18. He is also going to be offering a monthly Mastermind to members of the Authentic Relating Event Facilitators Facebook group.
• I will be offering a free weekly Mastermind Circling for AR Leaders & Wannabe’s as well on the AR Facilitators Facebook (this is a different format than Josh’s, and you would also need to join the facebook group to see it). The timings is Thursdays at 2pm EST (except for the weeks in which Josh is running his event).
• Finally, I have one final Introduction to Circling Masterminds today, Sunday at 2pm EST (in a few hours). Buy tickets here. Committed groups will be forming in December, if you are interested in learning more you can reply to this mail. What I am calling “Mastermind Circling” is like Masterminding with more connection intent, or maybe Circling with more developmental intent. It’s super-fun and often very transformational, especially over time.