About Heart Circle
Heart Circle Basics
What’s a heart circle, you ask? Faeries sit together while one speaks from the heart, witnessed by the others. The primary activity in heart circle is listening. In the workshop, facilitators pass a talisman so that one person can share, and so it goes around the circle until a round is complete.
Heart circles are a brilliant piece of human technology that have been used in various cultures for millennia. A heart circle creates a space of active listening for all attending. Sitting with one’s feelings as one waits for one’s turn to speak induces a reflective attitude about emotions that otherwise might create a strong reaction.
Reflect, not React
Awareness of Our Commonality
A heart circle can create a space in which to explore the inner life in a mutually co-arising expression of common humanity and caring. We ALL have doubts ; we all suffer pains, whether physical, emotional or psychic; we all worry; we all experience joys and triumphs in many manifestations.
Sharing embodies the experience and allows participants to be more easily themselves in the presence of others. As one reflects, the shared emotions create a paradox of both safety and vulnerability in the speaker and in the witness. Differences can turn into compassion or curiosity.
- Sitting in heart circle is essential to the workshop.
- We do not circle unless everyone is present, and we will spend most of every day in heart circle.
- Prior heart-circle experience is required, or at least experience in similar formats.
- Heart circles are facilitated – the facilitators may ask questions or offer help to guide and focus sharing toward our common intention.
Heart Circle during Sex Magick
