News from CirclesWork!
                                              October, 2012
In This Issue
Monica Sharma
Upcoming Events
October 17
Joanne Shenandosh
Call Schedule
Stories from the Field
About Us
Peacemaker Circles
Our Next Speaker
Monica Sharma
Monica Sharma
trained as a physician and epidemiologist, worked for the United Nations for 22 years. Currently, she engages worldwide as an International Expert and Practitioner on Leadership Development for Sustainable Change.  She fosters results-oriented partnerships with governments, civil society, business, media and United Nations. As a practitioner, her proven track record of generating measurable results at scale, as well as enhancing leadership on every continent, is unique.

 

UPCOMING EVENTS
Oct 10, 5:30pm PT (2nd Wed)
Circle Culture Carriers Call
Assist New Circles

Oct 17, 5:30pm PT (3rd Wed)
MONICA SHARMA, MD
Eminent Peacemaker Teleconference
Seeing the Deep Face: Purpose and Source

Oct 24, 5:30 PT
(4th Wed)
Circle Forum Call

Nov 14
(3rd Wed)
STARHAWK
Eminent Peacemaker
Teleconference

 

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Welcome friends, and new Peacemakers who circled with us in San Francisco and Petaluma this month. I hope you enjoy the "new look" of the CirclesWork! newsletter. Our exciting calls with Eminent Peacemakers are recorded and available. Invite a friend to listen -- and to join for FREE our next TeleCircle with Dr. Monica Sharma. Check out the updates and circle stories from the Field below.
Monica Sharma
Seeing the True Face: Purpose and Source
Monica Sharma & Lauren Oliver
I recently joined Monica Sharma at her Transformational Leadership Workshop in NYC

In her unique and bold fashion, Monica Sharma will weave for us greater understanding of the theme of Manual For the Peacemaker, Chapter IV, focused on seeing the True Face of self and others.  We must be willing to Name our Purpose, Declare our Truth, and Mirror The True Face, encouraging self and others to act with conscience, mindfulness, and compassion.

Seeing the True Face is Making the Invisible Visible...
"You must learn to look at the world twice. First, you must bring your eyes together in front so you can see each droplet of rain on the grass, so you can see the smoke rising from an anthill in the sunshine. Nothing should escape your notice. But you must learn to look again, with your eyes at the very edge of what is visible. Now you must see dimly if you wish to see things that are dim-visions, mist, and cloud people, animals which hurry past you in the dark. You must learn to look at the world twice if you wish to see all that there is to see."       ~ Navajo Elder, from Manual for the Peacemaker

Previous Speaker
Joanne Shenandoah's Iroquois Message
Joanne Shenandoah
"Awake, stand up, be counted" called Joanne Shenandoah, leading our September 19 TeleCircle with rich stories of growing up in the Iroquois culture, a legacy of the Great Peacemaker.  She described her shock -- when she "went out into the world" to college - at how women poorly are treated.  Iroquois women are equals and active; they choose the leaders, and remove them if they are not serving the will of the people.  Women decide about going to war, asking "How many women would want to give up their children to war?"  Hear Joanne's recording on CirclesWork!.  With two of her songs!  Enjoy.
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1) Eminent Peacemaker TeleConference each 3rd Wednesday.  Hold your pin for recurring calls, even w/ a different phone number from Maestro. Get a new pin any time by clicking on any calls on the left.
2) Circle Forum call, the 4th Wednesday of each month, offers teaching exchange and discussion, with more details on how to set up, launch and run your circle.  Great dialogues! Sign up to left for Circle Forum pin.
3) Circle Culture Carriers call, the 2nd Wednesday of the month, is for coach-practitioners: those in a circle who wish to help themselves or others start new circles.   

 

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Stories from the Field
How I Prepare Personally for a Virtual Circle
By Jeanna Ruppel, Windsor, CA

Clear my space and light a candle.  
Gather my notebook and pen.
Sit with silence for at least 10 min prior to calling in.
Notice breath and center and open to the learning and possibilities.
Set my intentions to Show Up, Be Present, and Stay Open.
Have my personal guidelines in front of me - my guidelines always in circle:
Listen from the Heart, Speak from the Heart, Trust I will know what to say, Say just enough.

A Perfect Shape
By Ginger, member of one of Jeanna's circles.

I think of a circle as a perfect shape, there is not a starting place or an ending place, just a continuum. People sitting in a circle are equals, with no one in front or behind anyone else. Everyone has a perfect view of whoever is speaking.

I think of all the places in nature where we see circles - the sun, moon and planets, the cross-section of the trunk of a tree, flowers, mushrooms, fruit - circles in nature are abundant.

When I am part of a circle of people, I feel connected to the others there with me in a way I never feel when I am in the configuration of a typical classroom; with a presenter at the front, and everyone in rows.

I feel power in a circle, and maybe that power comes from the feeling that all voices in the circle are important and equal.
We want to hear from you and speak to what you want. Would you like a Circle Culture Carrier to help you start an action circle?  Please send us YOUR stories from the Field to [email protected]. Share your peacemaking contributions to your community. We can co-create the world we want to see.

 

Peace and Abbondanza in Circle,


Lauren Oliver
CirclesWork!
 
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