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Enrolling August PRL Cohorts; free AR webinar with Jason Digges tomorrow, Wednesday 7/31

July 30, 2024 By marc Leave a Comment

A couple of news-flashes:

    1. I am enrolling now the August cohorts of Practical Relational Leadership through Authentic Relating. This is a deep dive into Relational Inquiry (Similar to Circling™)  in small groups over 4 weeks. I have been running these groups for 7 years and its my absolute favorite way to circle. And the price is right ($100). Some experience of Circling is optimal, but not required.
    2. Jason Digges will be a running a free webinar, Authentic Relating in Community, Free Introduction — Wed July 31, 7-8:30pm Eastern US. Sign-up from that link to get the zoom link.
      This webinar, along with the 4 follow-up webinars beginning on August 28, are introductions to our upcoming fall course launch, the courses Authentic Relating in Community (led by Jason) and Practical Relational Leadership in Community (led by me and Sophie). Sign-up to as many of  the free webinars as you
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August 2024 Newsletter

July 22, 2024 By marc Leave a Comment

A special tribute in this newsletter to Authentic Relating writers! See below.

For the rest, it’s happening times all around. Yay team!

What’s happening in the community?

  • I am enrolling now the August cohort(s) of Practical Relational Leadership through Authentic Relating (PRL). Still priced at just $100, this may be the best-value Relational Inquiry (similar to Circling™) training that you can buy. We work in a small group of 6 people over 4 weeks, pretty consistently going very deep together. The PRL format has been time-tested and works beautifully for creating AR community among your friends, in your city, or in any kind of work team. To read some of my recent great successes (and spectacular failures!) there, check out the article on my new substack 2024: The year I finally landed in my life, and subscribe there if you like.
  • In partnership with Jason Digges, the
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Authentic Relating in Community: Free Introduction webinars, Fall 2024

July 14, 2024 By marc Leave a Comment

Attend one or more of our free, fully experiential Authentic Relating workshops this fall! See links below. “Most fun to be had while vertical”

Sign-up to one of our free intros using the links below. See all free webinars (and sign-up) here.

  • Wednesday 7pm Eastern on September 11.
  • Friday at Noon Eastern / 6pm CET on September 13)

Join our Global Eco-Village Network and Foundation for Intentional Community families in August and September 2024 for an unprecedented series of online workshops that will teach you to apply the powerful practices of Authentic Relating to your community, family, business or social-change organization.

The “Harnessing the gifts of conflict” series 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 was blown away!

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Authentic Relating in Community, Free Introduction — Wed July 31, 7-8:30pm Eastern US

June 22, 2024 By marc

Join our Global Eco-Village Network and Foundation for Intentional Communities families in this free, experiential webinar in which you will learn how to apply the powerful practice of Authentic Relating to your community, family, business or social-change organization!

Sign-up below and then add the event to your calendar here.

To see all the free webinars offered in the fall of 2024 click here.

This event is an introduction to our upcoming courses:

  • Authentic Relating in Community (ARC): Cohort 1 starts Wednesday Sept 18, 7pm Eastern; Cohort 2  starts Friday Sept 20, Noon Eastern / 6pm CET
  • Practical Relational Leadership in Community (PRLC): Cohort 1 starts Monday Sept 16, 10:30am Eastern / 4:30pm CET;  Cohort 2 starts Tuesday September 17, Noon Eastern / 6pm CET

Sign-up to get the zoom link and reminders!

About Jason Digges

Jason Digges is one of the pioneers of the Authentic …

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Learn and practice with Jason Digges; Productivity coaching with Petrus

June 3, 2024 By marc Leave a Comment

1. Last call to attend Authentic Relating in Community

This is the last call for Jason’s 6-week course Authentic Relating in Community (ARC), which starts this Friday June 7 at Noon Eastern. Two partial scholarship spots are available, simply reply to this email and tell me something about you and why you want to attend this course.

Why join a course with Jason?

To begin, as many of you know, Jason was a co-founder of ART International, and before that worked directly for Ken Wilber and the Boulder Integral Center. He’s been an important part of the AR movement for about 15 years. In his time with ART he trained hundreds of people to become facilitators and/or leaders in their communities. And now, after about 3 years of further practice, research and writing he is back teaching a live course! We don’t know when will be the …

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June 2024 Newsletter

May 28, 2024 By marc Leave a Comment

***Breaking news*** There will be a free AR Games session led by Jason Digges tomorrow Thursday May 30 at Noon eastern. Register here. This is part of two new AR courses sponsored by the Global Eco-Village Network. Also see below about a tentative launch of Authentic Singles in Austin in July. 

What’s happening in the community?

  • Jason Digges and I are running some Free AR Games on Thursday May 30, Noon Eastern.  Sign-up here. This event is an introduction to our two courses produced by the Global Eco-Village Network (GEN) entitled Authentic Relating in community (ARC)  (led by Jason) and Practical Relational Leadership in Community (or PRLC) led by me. Getting GEN involved in producing and promoting AR events is quite a coup, as I am very passionate about Intentional Communities and Eco-villages and believe that this is a big untapped market for AR.
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Authentic Relating Organizations

  • Circling Institute (San Francisco and Global)
  • The Relateful Company  (previously CircleAnywhere). Global
  • Transformational Connection (previously Circling Europe), Europe
  • 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

Recommended Books

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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