CIRCLES OF RESILIENCE
Creating Communities of Connection
Training in Council Facilitation & Conflict Exploration
Enheartening the world one circle at a time
Our vision is to cultivate a community of facilitators who practice speaking and listening from the heart in order to create more resilient families, workplaces and communities.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Part One: The Basic Practice
Online 4-Session Workshop Series
September 3, 10, 24 & October 1
10-11:30am Pacific Time
Part Two: The Forms
Online 4-Session Workshop Series
July 16, 23, 30 & August 6
10-12:00pm Pacific Time
• Explore the questions we are living now in this time of global pandemic and climate crisis.
• Take part in different circle forms, exercises, games, and ways of sharing with families, schools, businesses and communities.
• Participate in grounding and resilience practices.
• Practice facilitating in Zoom virtual space making use of
breakout rooms and whiteboards.
• Engage in home practice with other participants to develop your skills.
“He who listens with his mind knows;
he who listens with his heart understands.”
Matshona Dhliwayo
Courses
Circles of Resilience, Level One The Basic Practice
An introduction to the practice of listening and speaking from the heart, along with social engagement activities and mindfulness processes to help build psycho-emotional resilience. All in the comfort of your home via Zoom.
Heart connection with others is itself an important source of resilience. Stephen Porges, author of The Polyvagal Theory notes that video connection provides the intonation and facial cues that words and emojis in emails or texts cannot. We are not just exchanging content, we are exchanging cues. We are reaching into the ‘other’s’ nervous system to say, “I’m here. I’m present with you. I am listening.” This is the essence of co-regulation, an ancestral survival skill.
Circles of Resilience, Level Two Going Deeper
This next level training is for those ready to explore circle challenges, looking at conflict and what happens when unconscious material enters the circle. The social engagement found in circle provides us with the safety necessary to mature and adapt to uncertainty. We learn to resource ourselves in order to respond rather than react. We can turn toward the disruption in the circle and find our way through to new levels of awareness using the resilience contained within the circle. In this level 2 course we will continue the exploration of crafting prompts and learn to read the field so that we can start with the unknown and find the prompt together. We will continue with home play opportunities and explore more ways of weaving Porges’ polyvagal theory into our practice.
Circles of Resilience for Deep Adaptation: Becoming a Voice in the World
(Prerequisite Level 1)
As we move into an era of pandemics and other environmental crises, as we move toward social and economic collapse, as mental health is compromised, we need each other. In this time of Covid-19, for those who are alone, the isolation can be harmful to the nervous system and the body’s experience encourages negativity bias. The opportunity to connect through the online listening practice of Circles of Resilience is an opportunity to co-regulate each other’s physiological and emotional state as we deeply listen to each other. We then feel safer and become more generous with others, more accessible. With compassion, we tend to the emerging reality. We grieve what’s been lost, we let go of what no longer serves, we reclaim, renew and reimagine what is possible.
Circles of Resilience for Teams, Businesses and Organizations
(Prerequisite Level 1)
Employers and managers who support social connections in the workplace and help employees form strong relationships with one another help build a successful workforce. Strong work relationships help establish and nurture a company or organizational culture that emphasizes respect, loyalty and trust. Social connection provides a sense of cohesion in the office, built on the safety that comes with co-regulation which is essential for cultivating creativity, teamwork and collaboration.
Dates and Times
Level One – The Basic Practice
Tuesdays on Sep 22 & 29; Oct 6 & 13
05:00 pm – 06:30 pm Pacific Time
7:00 – 8:30 pm BST
Level One – The Basic Practice
Sundays on Oct 11, 18 & 25; Nov 1
11:00 am – 12:30 pm Pacific Time
7:00 – 8:30 pm BST
Level Two – Going Deeper
COMING SOON – contact us for your place on our wait list
Fridays on Aug 21, Sep 4, 11 and 18
11:00 am – 12:30 pm PT
7:00 – 8:30 pm BST
Deep Adaptation: Becoming a Voice in the World
COMING SOON – contact us for your place on our wait list
Fridays on Aug 21, Sep 4, 11 and 18
11:00 am – 12:30 pm PT
7:00 – 8:30 pm BST
Circles of Resilience for Teams, Businesses and Organizations
COMING SOON – contact us for your place on our wait list
Fridays on Aug 21, Sep 4, 11 and 18
11:00 am – 12:30 pm PT
7:00 – 8:30 pm BST