National Circle Keeper Gathering Reflection

By Mari Ramirez

Last month, Anab shared her reflections about her experience at the annual Circle Keeper Gathering with Kay Pranis and The Circle Center in Nashville TN earlier this Fall. 

This month, check out Mari’s vlog about his big takeaways and lessons learned!

“We often have the urge to “fix” in helping-people-centered work and professions… but there is so much power in allowing people to be in their process and you being in yours…it’s called ”Sitting in your chair” …allowing people to unfold in their process just as you can expect them to allow you to unfold in your process…allow yourself and others around you to be in your own process and being…that is collective power.”

“One of the biggest learnings I had was…understanding how me looking to a circle keeper to check the vibes of a space is in and of itself is a form of policing the space - looking to someone in “power” to control the space - and then finding that power within myself rather than another person. It challenged me to think about the power that I hold in space and the fact that I can share how things are impacting me. I can check the vibes of the circle. Shifting from looking to the circlekeeper to looking within myself, and then I saw so many people sharing their own  views, perspectives– that felt like collective power..."