Online Heart Circle — Well-Being Wednesday
“It’s through our heart that the deepest learning can occur. When a group's hearts grow together beautiful things happen—shared interest can blossom into shared understanding, belonging naturally becomes togetherness, and shared purpose can be discovered.”
Derick Carter, Heart Circle Facilitator
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 — 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM (U.S. Eastern Time Zone)
Online, Zoom — Free Event
Join us to explore and deepen our own personal understanding of well-being through heart-centered storytelling and listening. Over the years, we have all probably experienced moments of well-being, even if we didn’t have the words to describe what we were feeling at the time.
Reflecting and sharing as a group can help us to recognize and reshape our own attitudes, experiences and priorities about well-being, which helps us more easily integrate it into our daily lives. By hearing other stories of well-being, we can expand our understanding of well-being and the impact it has on us and those around us.
Please contact me with any questions. I look forward to connecting with you soon and exploring well-being together!
The Benefits of Joining a Learning Circle
Circles are an age-old practice inspired by storytelling traditions that foster speaking and listening from the heart. They naturally people together to bear witness and share authentically.
A circle is an intentional relational space that offers a safe place to meet and collectively nurture our own well-being, which increases our capacity to do good in the world.
The circle approach supports a deep sense of community, shared understanding and interconnectedness. It allows space for individuals to find their voice and share their stories, cultivate a compassionate response to anger, defensiveness and violence as well as strengthen emotional health and resilience.
Through experiencing deep listening and sharing from the heart, the circle builds positive relationships and neutralizes hierarchical dynamics formed by the inequality of status, race, or other social factors.
We agree to speak one-at-a-time and share our personal stories and experiences—rather than opinions—and listen non-judgmentally while others do the same. In sharing and listening to universal stories about love, loss, fear, triumph, challenge, hope and other experiences, we can realize that despite our many differences we have much in common.
What emerges from the Circle reflects our shared humanity and collective wisdom.
Circles are a natural foundation for heart-centered connection. I feel one of the most valuable benefits that circles offer is the opportunity to share, learn and understand each other with our heart. Based on my experience as a heart-centered leadership trainer, I have found that the heart is the key to bringing a group together in a way that naturally shifts us to a more relationship-focused orientation. From here, we are able to see ourselves and our connection to each other more clearly, realizing that we are not separate. This change in perspective is huge as people can feel when we have their interests and/or the larger community needs at heart and this way of relating quickly spread within a circle.