Circlecraft: A practical training in the words, structure, and presence that make healing circles work
This is a Virtual 3-Hour Training
For anyone who wants to learn how to facilitate healing circles. Come discover where language, ritual, and ethics meet. All levels welcome. Liliana has been facilitating healing circles for over 25 years and wrote the book, Mending The Circle, published in 2018.
ROLES: Guide and Participant
What is the role of a Circle Guide?
Your role as a guide is much like being a guide in the wilderness. We think of the prompts as a way to keep us on the trail and prepare for changing terrain. We are not responsible for our participants healing or the content that they share.  It's between them and nature. (What is the landscape the circle will be journeying to? How does the terrain evolve? Watching the river and knowing it’s features)
You have curated prompts that are appropriate for building authentic connections. Allowing for emergent wisdom to rise up. The circle solves it’s own problems.
Tools that we invoke as guides: Lotus Lantern Healing Arts ABC+D Tools (grounding rooms and self, matching pictures, levels of responsibility).
Participants Perspective
What happens in the circle from a Participant's Perspective? They arrive to the circle potentially feeling anxious, fearful → the medicine of the circle can transform this to a feeling of belonging and healing thru the power of storytelling. From their perspective our prompts are random.Â
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Circle Guides Perspective
What happens in the circle from a Guide’s Perspective? (Presence, self-compassion, trust in the circle) You have spent time asking yourself what the circle needs? Using the Five Elements chart, developing prompts to create easeful progress, deciding who will deliver a prompt, how you will deliver it, curating your story telling response and debriefing afterwards.
