The Art & Practice of Circles: A Two Day Training Course

For those called to facilitate beginnings, thresholds and endings, with depth, maturity and care

In these times of multiple truths and paradoxes, we need collective spaces to sense integrity, widen our understanding, and re-member ourselves to each other and the greater story of us.

This training explores the practice of Circle, as a facilitation form and a way of being together. Designed for those who facilitate groups of any size, it responds to a growing need for depth, maturity and responsibility in group work. 

As a team of three facilitators, offering different cultural lenses, lived experiences, and working histories, we will develop collective listening, container-building and energetic perception of groups.

Participants will experience a Circle held by experienced practitioners while engaging in applied learning — practising the core principles, leadership roles and design elements that enable powerful questions, meaningful ritual, and space hosting which resources the work. Through story, structured practice and reflection, you will not only understand Circle — you will work with it. This is an invitation not simply to facilitate Circle, but to live it with dignity, clarity and care, and begin applying it to more areas of life.

Venue

St Ethelburga’s Center for Reconcilation and Peace destroyed by an IRA bomb in 1993,

resurrected as a centre for reconciliation and peace in 2002, St Ethelburga's is a symbol of hope from the ashes.

78 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4AG

Accessibility

St Ethelburga’s is a wheelchair accessible venue. In the instance you have specific requirements please contact us.

Who is this for?

Seekers, searchers, people in comfort, people in discomfort.

We welcome people from all walks of life, all professions.

Managers, facilitators, team leaders, consultants, coaches, entrepreneurs.

Educators, artists, poets, musicians, faith community leaders, and government.

Community organizers, social change activists, therapists.

We welcome the older and the youngers, and people working with the olders and those working with the youngers.

We welcome men, women, the in-betweens, and the undecideds.

All people seeking a substantially better wisdom of heart, mind, and belly.

Over two days, you will work with:

• The core principles and leadership roles within Circle

• Collective listening as a living practice

• Container-building: how to open, hold and close a space well

• Crafting powerful, clean questions that invite depth rather than debate

• Working with group energetics - sensing what is emerging and responding with steadiness

• Deep and meaningful ritual that supports integration

• Practical space hosting - structure, rhythm, pacing and transition

• The relationship between hosting yourself and hosting others

This is applied learning. You will practice, reflect, experiment and integrate — not simply observe.

Quanita Roberson - Facilitator

For more than two decades, Quanita has facilitated transformative workshops, rites of passage and leadership programmes across the United States and internationally, working at the intersection of grief, initiation, race and spiritual maturity. A master teacher shaped by deep indigenous mentorship and integral theory, she carries an uncommon capacity to hold complexity, reconcile differences and guide groups through profound emotional and systemic work with steadiness and authority.

Jamie Colston - Facilitator

Over the past 15 years, Jamie has trained extensively in Systemic Constellations and Art of Hosting participatory process, supporting and designing training while curating and facilitating innovative and intergenerational community learning spaces. An artist, poet and ritual maker, he brings rigorous systemic practice together with embodied creativity, enabling groups to move beyond conversation into lived, relational experience.

Nic Seuren - Facilitator

Nic is a systemic coach and facilitator who works in the crucible of structure, relationship and lived experience. Attentive to the patterns shaping both people and the spaces they gather in, with roots in commercial strategy and training in family and organisational constellations, she combines structural clarity with a grounded, attentive presence and a deep sensitivity. She brings steadiness, discernment and practical wisdom to to facilitating people and place, time and space.

Moi Tu - Wisdom Artist

Moi is an artist, consultant and facilitator who works at the intersection of creativity and collective sense-making. She supports groups in workplaces and communities to collaborate with more imagination, meaning and human connection, especially when the work is complex or emotionally charged. Her practice draws on visual and artful dialogue methods that loosen knots, surface hidden stories and make space for voices that are often overlooked.

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