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Skillfully coming into contact Slowing down, paying gentle attention to what’s here and now. We practice meeting in the delicate truth within us and between us from each moment to the next. This can be honed to micro-precision. We track and share the subtleties of our experience as we open to the nuances of the continually changing flavour of the connection with the other. Black and white...

by Sean Wilkinson

Because it is getting closer to new SAS journeys starting - in Amsterdam and London, I want to share with you some perspectives that will be important for some of you right now.

Our Innovative training is not for everyone!

Our leadership and unique practice environment is really for specific people. For starters, it is definitely for those people wanting to see, feel and...

Circling helps us reveal deeper motivations for our actions, giving us the freedom to choose to embrace or change what we discover. Often this shows us the timeless wisdom that "projection makes perception"—that wherever we point one finger at someone else, three fingers are pointing back at ourselves.

A classic example is when we want to "fix the discomfort" of...

by John Thompson

At its depths, Circling is a practice related to awakening. It’s a set of pointers, practices and reminders to deeper levels of reality, to the transcendent quality of love, to the transpersonal, to the depth of our innocence and humanness, to oceans of mystery and unknown. It’s a place where I have regular ‘drugs’ experiences without having to worry...

Sean Wilkinson discusses the 6 month transformational crucible of SAS—a Circling and Surrendered Leadership training—through the lens of the hero's journey. Find more SAS info here.

by Philip Watson

Last night I was relaxing on the sofa, cradling my infant son Alexander and watching the recent Disney short Olaf’s Frozen Adventure. In the film, (*spoiler alert*) Olaf the affable talking snowman embarks on a quest to find a holiday tradition for his friends Anna and Elsa. He searches far and wide, collecting all manner of traditions in a sleigh, and eventually loses...

by Sean Wilkinson

During my recent travels leading Circling and receiving personal messages, there have been many concerned by some of the activity on our Fb forum. There has been a flurry of controversy, a few accusations, sincere attempts to bring understanding or depth and even some satire thrown in! The concern has been especially for the leaders and the level of personal scrutiny and...

by Tina Svingerud

I just finished the 6-day long SAS Plus in Austin and would like to share one of the things that got clearer in me during that week.

I have heard the guys talk a lot about hierarchy, and I also know that this is an important thing in the Integral community. I have never really gotten it. It has sounded a bit hard/harsh to me. Maybe masculine. And that it is about position...

La intención de los Cinco Principios es que sean luces en el camino hacia la presencia compartida. No son reglas; son guías. No son respuestas; son preguntas para ser vividas. No son estáticos; evolucionan conforme nosotros evolucionamos, redefiniéndose momento a momento mientras crecemos y cambiamos. [dropcap]C[/dropcap]

Compromiso con la Conexión:

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by Sean Wilkinson 

The Furnace

On the last day of the festival this year we created ‘The Furnace’. It was a workshop based on an ancient Mesopotamian ritual where the leaders are taken from the city and asked to answer for where they did not live up to their ideals. Inspired by this notion, John, Jordan and I sat in the middle of a Circle open to feedback; for three hours!...