Transformative Circles

- Finding our authentic voice

Collaborative workshops
focussing on the current processes of change in ourselves and the world,
towards a more generous and creative future.
While many of us are aware that the systems we are living with are not serving the
interests of the majority of humanity, and are actually damaging the foundations of life
on this planet, we can be overwhelmed with feeling helpless to change direction.
Our dependency on these systems in providing our everyday needs, traps us into
supporting them. Lulled into a stupor by media, drugs and shopping,
we are complicit in our own destruction.
With increasing world-wide communication, our collective concern for the human
family and the whole biosphere, brings an awareness of ourselves as integral to
the web of life. This understanding sees in the current crises the possibility of a
new consciousness breaking through old habits of thought and patterns of
behaviour, to produce a more just and sustainable future.

Can we become agents instead of victims?

You are invited to join a circle online.

What transforms a meeting into a circle is the willingness of people to shift from
informal socializing or opinionated discussion, into a receptive attitude of
thoughtful speaking and deep listening.
(http://www.peerspirit.com)
Collective thinking is fundamentally opposed to the current system which is managed by
the individualist thought. For this, we need time, it is a long-term process. It is usually
common that, when considering a decision, two people with contrary ideas will tend to
bring themselves into conflict and they will defend their ideas fiercely, with the single
objective of convincing, winning or, at the most, reaching middle ground.
The main objective of collective thinking is constructing. This meaning, two people with
different ideas combining their energy in order to build something. Then, it is not about my
idea or yours. It will be the two ideas together that produce a new outcome that we did
not know about in the first place. This is why active listening in which we are not just
preparing for our next intervention is so necessary. Collective thinking is born once we
understand that every opinion, ours and those different to ours, all of them, are needed in
order to generate the idea of consensus; an idea which, after being indirectly constructed,
will transform us.
(http://www.99posto.org/english/dynamisation-text-for-the-local-peoples-assemblies-in-serbia)