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Context-setting for the PRL course

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This is the [updated] transcript of my context-setting for the February 2024 PRL (Practical Relational Leadership) Course.

It is also available as a podcast here

It includes:

  • History of my work with the PRL’s
  • The business opportunities of this work (including running your own PRL’s or participating in the Authentic Singles Project)
  • The importance and relevance of context, including the very important question of the right amount of context to present in beginner groups
  • The root context of Circling, and how circling distinguishes itself from most other transformational modalities
  • Some comments on a recent workshop I attended with Miki Kashtan and NGL  (Non-Violent Global Liberation)

Note: I re-recorded this audio from an updated transcript, as the audio was not clear and I subsequently added some things to the transcript. Enjoy 🙂

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First session – my presencing check-in

My presencing check-in — I’m a bit tired but …

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Authentic Relating in Intentional Community: A case study in Ajijic, Mexico

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Update: much of this article is no longer current, as I left Mexico in July 2024. For the latest information, read my new substack Authentic Relating & Circling Leader

Summary

[to be edited to sync-up with the new PRLC offer]

In this article I will share my experience of successfully creating an Authentic Relating community in Ajijic, Mexico, in only 4 months. We are currently running AR games in two locations, I am leading weekly beginner and experienced Relational Meditation groups (similar to Circling™), and we are in week 2 of my 4-week course called Practical Relational Leadership through Authentic Relating (or “PRL), see www.circlingguide.com/prl) at a second intentional community here. We have here now a power-team of AR leaders which also meet weekly for support and business development. Longer term we are looking to start an open, peer-to-peer Boulder Integral style Relational Meditation group. More on the …

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How to be authentic and loving in an emotionally illiterate culture

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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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Circling Evangelist hits the streets in Guatemala: successes and humblings

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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 …

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