Circling & Surrendered Leadership Weekend

Name: Circling & Surrendered Leadership Weekend
Start: 2024-11-23T11:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-24T19:00:00+01:00
Location: London Shambhala Meditation Centre

Schedule

Sat Nov 23 2024 at 11:30 am to Sun Nov 24 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

London Shambhala Meditation Centre | London, EN

Circling & Surrendered Leadership weekend
led by Martje Witzel (NL) and Robyn Wilford (non residential)
In this weekend immersion we will dive deep in the paradigms of Circling & Surrendered Leadership. These are worldwide growing practices that can lead to deeper experiences of connection and aliveness, while being our full human selves.
In Circling & Surrendered Leadership we’ll invite a deeper presence with ourselves, from where we'll explore the connection with another person or the group.
‘When we feel deeply seen and met, new realms of connection can be experienced. Here, right now, is where you may get close to what really matters to you, finding your truth from moment to moment. This may give a sense of belonging, love and aliveness and direction in life’.
What we’ll explore:
* The art of being with someone
* The embodiment of self in the moment
* Self leadership from surrender
You may walk away with:
* An experience of connection and aliveness
* Feeling seen and met in who you are
* A more truthful expression of yourself
* A deeper imprint of the practice of Circling & Surrendered Leadership

Practical Details
•⁠ ⁠23 & 24 Nov 2024 [non residential]
•⁠ ⁠10.30am-6pm (please arrive 10.15am)
•⁠ ⁠Shambhala Meditation Centre, London
•⁠ ⁠£185 (£160 till midnight on Nov 1st)
Any questions: [email protected]

More about Circling and Terms of Service:
Circling is a practice that involves looking at and being intimate with the structures of one’s personal reality, which includes how we make sense of experience, individually and collectively. I find these practices consistently deliver deeply meaningful experiences, and believe a few clarifications now will likely make this more accessible to you.
Because Circling is unique, carrying over assumptions from other practices can lead to misunderstandings about what we do and how you are invited to engage. It is my intention to make it as clear as I can what Circling is and isn’t.
Responsibility:
We see you as a free agent capable of honest self-assessment and responsible choice
This is an invitation to take responsibility for:
- yourself and your experience
- choices you’re making about what you’re accepting as true and significant
- how you’re participating in and helping to sustain your situation
- the beliefs and choices you’re bringing to the situation (wittingly or unwittingly) that are informing your experience.
We refer generally to the willingness to take responsibility in these terms as “owning your experience.”
Not Psychotherapy:
Circling as we practice it leads to transformational growth, but we do this through surrender, self-leadership, and interconnection rather than aiming for healing outcomes directly (like many modalities do). While honouring a wide variety of wisdom and psychological discernments from many schools of thought, we do not follow a therapeutic model of diagnosis and treatment. Our method is educational. Our emphasis is connection.
We are guides in a journey of presence, connection, and aliveness. We do not prescribe choices or actions. We do not see you as being in a therapeutic relationship with me. We work in the present moment, assuming wholeness that can include greater wholeness, exploring connection, staying mindful to notice the cost of reality choices and labels that too easily lead to misunderstanding or pathologizing. We bring a fresh set of eyes to what is happening, with the aim of understanding how updating our beliefs about what is happening can update our reality.
Circling is a practice of connection and meditation
- Focusing on the present moment.
- Maintaining a non-goal orientation that is encapsulated in the principle of “being with the other in their world."
Is this Right for You?
Circling can be intense. People encounter places, states, emotions, beliefs, and sensations in themselves and others that are sometimes unfamiliar. We explore the unknown, the volatile, the ambiguous, as well as welcome emotions many deem as “negative” or “inappropriate” such as feelings of inadequacy, anger, sexuality, and joy. We refer to the willingness to feel difficult and uncomfortable truths as the “commitment to connection,” which of course includes a willingness to set appropriate boundaries, and speak a desire for space, distance, and non-contact. By attending you take responsibility for choosing to leave the practice or participate in any given moment—which might include getting intimate with these kinds of experiences.
We will often explore multiple sides of seeming opposites at once, such as independence and interdependence, chaos and order, agreement and disagreement. We believe this can reveal an underlying unity of the immediacy of experience.
If the above description of Circling sounds potentially overwhelming or destabilizing for you, if you have mental illness or significant emotional challenges that you feel may be exacerbated by this type of transformational environment, or if you are not sure that you can be self-directed in taking care of your needs during the event, then you are advised not to enrol.
By registering you acknowledge that you have read and agree to abide by these Terms of Service. Please contact me if you have any questions.