
Calling the Circle
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50,000 years ago, women and men gathered around campfires to decide the key issues in their lives. Today, groups everywhere are discovering a new form of this ancient ritual for communication, mutual support, teamwork, and social change. Now, in a book as consciousness-changing as Riane Eisler's The Chalice and the Blade or Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline, Christina Baldwin offers this powerful new tool to everyone who longs for a community based on honesty, equality, and spiritual integrity.
In this simple, profound practice, participants sit in a circle, pass a talking piece from person to person, and speak and listen from the heart. Christina Baldwin gives detailed instructions and suggestions for getting started, setting goals, and solving disagreements safely and respectfully. She also offers inspiring examples of circles in action: a women's spirituality group, a father and son in crisis, a PTA group that averts a school strike and a work project team that accesses a new level of creativity and caring.
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- Intro
- Other Books By This Author
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface To The New Edition
- What Is A Circle?
- Chapter 1 - Awakening-Where We Are Now
- The Experiment
- Calling the Circle
- Circles of Recovery and Healing: The Bridge
- Living in Context
- Chapter 2 - The Circle: Past, Present, and Future
- Remembering the First Culture
- The Power of One Circle
- Second Culture: The Modern World
- Third Culture: The Circle and the Triangle
- Chapter 3 - The Sacred as Center in Everyday Life
- The Authentic Gesture
- The Loss and Reclaiming of Ritual
- Becoming Indigenous
- Circle as Spiritual Practice
- Chapter 4 - Holding the Rim
- Moving to the Edge
- The Circle as Social Practice
- The Three Principles of Circle
- Forms of Council
- The Three Practices of Council
- Generic PeerSpirit Agreements
- Guardian of the Circle
- Covenants of the Circle
- Body Practices
- Circle Energetics
- Chapter 5 - Preparing to Call the Circle
- Preparations for Calling the Circle
- Setting Intention
- Gathering Feedback
- Envisioning the Group
- Chapter 6 - The First Gathering
- Sitting in Circle
- Telling the Story of the Idea
- Making Sacred Center
- Setting Circle Agreements
- Fears and Expectations
- First Time Around the Rim
- Closing the Circle with Respect
- Chapter 7 - Sustaining the PeerSpirit Circle
- The Circle Logbook
- Time and Commitment
- The Importance of Familiar Ritual
- The Importance of Real Dialogue
- The Importance of Real Accomplishment
- The Importance of Authentic Conflict
- Appreciation Council
- The Importance of Closure
- Chapter 8 - Challenges in the Circle
- Refuge
- Safety and Challenge
- Projection-It Ain't the Movies
- Protocol for Reconciliation
- Shadow
- Psychic Housekeeping
- Chapter 9 - When the Circle Shatters
- Unbondedness
- A Rock to Stand On
- Entering the I/Eye of the Storm
- Full Council
- The Sting of Otherness
- Chapter 10 - Citizen or the Circle
- Becoming PeerSpirit: Circles in Evolution
- Circle as Social Movement
- An Island and the World
- The Calling
- Resources And Endpieces
- Guide to Peerspirit Circling
- Appendix A - Peerspirit Circle Agreements
- Appendix B - Checklist For Peerspirit Circle Agenda
- Appendix C - Protocol For Reconciliation In Peerspirit Circles
- Bibliography And Circle Resources
- Acknowledgments
- Permissions
- About the Author
- About the Artist
- Copyright
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