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by  John Thompson

Happy New Year Everyone!

I woke up Jan 2nd feeling a bit of pressure to get some work done. Realising this was coming a bit from fear I managed to let it go and start to enjoy my day. When playing tennis later on I started to imagine ‘if this was the last time I ever played, how would I play?’ I started to imagine my own death and the general impermanence of...

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 

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!...

by Jordan Myska Allen

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Here’s a new way to look at the question “What is Circling?”...

Answered from 8 different developmental frameworks of making meaning: Can you find where all of these perspectives have a relative truth inside of you right now?

Can you see where Circling can honor these parts of your being, while also providing the nourishment for you...