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Calling the Circle : The First and Future Culture
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Author: Christina Baldwin
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap)
Back cover (view larger image)Actual Dimensions: 0.61 x 8.95 x 6.06 See all 26 sample pages Or Use 1-ClickSign in to turn on 1-Click ordering. Book Description The original small-press edition of Calling the Circle has become one of the key resources for the rapidly-growing "circle" movement. This newly revised edition brings Christina Baldwins groundbreaking work to an even broader audience ranging from womens spirituality groups to corporate development teams. 50,000 years ago, women and men gathered around campfires to decide the key issues in their lives. Today, groups everywhere are discovering a new form of this ancient ritual for communication, mutual support, teamwork, and social change. Now, in a book as consciousness-changing as Riane Eislers The Chalice and the Blade or Peter Senges The Fifth Discipline, Christina Baldwin offers this powerful new tool to everyone who longs for a community based on honesty, equality, and spiritual integrity.In this simple, profound practice, participants sit in a circle, pass a talking piece from person to person, and speak and listen from the heart. Christina Baldwin gives detailed instructions and suggestions for getting started, setting goals, and solving disagreements safely and respectfully. She also offers inspiring examples of circles in action: a womens spirituality group, a father and son in crisis, a PTA group that averts a school strike and a work project team that accesses a new level of creativity and caring. Customer ReviewsAvg. Customer Review: Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.What the world needs now!, October 15, 2001Reviewer:Catherine Wilson(see more about me)from Brooklyn Park, MN United StatesThis is a book for our times. Christina provides a much needed paradigm - a new container within which human interaction can happen in a spirit of respect and tolerance. It is an important answer for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a peace maker in their own lives and in the world. I have used what Christina teaches, and it enhances every interaction all the way from talks with my spouse to large organizational meetings. It is useful at every level of life. It is beautifully written, and it leaves you with highly useful tools in your hand and hope in your heart.Was this review helpful to you? Calling the Circle: The First and Future culture, October 5, 2001Reviewer:Sarah N. MacDougallfrom Taylors Falls, MN United StatesChristina Baldwins Calling the Circle is a book that offers information critical to our survival as a human community. How do we break through our cultural barriers and relearn how to treat one another with respect and honor the collective wisdom that we so desperately need at this time in our history? Read this book to find a proven methodology, a way of being together that, when practiced allows us to connect on a heart level, to honor and understand one another even though we may disagree. We need this information now more than ever.Was this review helpful to you? 2 of 12 people found the following review helpful:Lovely Bookl, October 3, 2000Reviewer:A readerThis was simply a lovely book I recommend it to everyoneWas this review helpful to you? 17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:It Works! From individuals into a community of sharing., November 19, 1999Reviewer:Judy OLeary (gmcouncil@aol.com)from Tucson, ArizonaThe Council of Grandmothers Planning Committee for the Annual Gathering of October 1999 in Oracle, Arizona made a commitment to use Christina Baldwins "Calling The Circle", along with "A Guide to Peerspirit Circle" by Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea as the foundation of their Gathering. Creating a center for safety, placing our sacred objects, using a talking piece to lovingly speak our truths, the importance of the timekeeper, using a bell to go within, the self monitoring, and the listening, really listening, worked and it was rewarding and magical! The evaluations of these women on their small circles of 12 to 13 along with the large circles of 50 include words such as "supportive, empowering, want to continue them in my other life, very harmonious, non-ego dominated, very compassionate group, good as a teaching tool for this kind of process." I recommend Christinas Circle book for any organization, corporation, school or group, any age and all ages, male and female. It successfully brought women who had never met before to a level of sharing, working and bonding, previously not realized at our Gatherings. Thank you Christina and Ann! Judy OLeary, The Weaver, Council of Grandmothers.Was this review helpful to you? 11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:An outstanding piece on bringing people together in council., September 14, 1999Reviewer:Pamela Sampel (psampel@kcts.org)from Seattle, WashingtonBaldwins "Calling the Circle" is by far the best book and methodology out there on using the "circle" as a form of bringing people together into communities and teams with clear intention(s), respect, compassion and openness. This process is also marvelous in helping people in conflict situations to be able to hold those "challenging conversations" with honesty and integrity. A truly outstanding piece of work that is a must read for todays business and community leaders who need to deal with so many critical issues with very diverse communities of people.Was this review helpful to you? This book has 26 sample pages. Excerpt (view larger image)Actual Dimensions: 0.61 x 8.95 x 6.06 See all 26 sample pages Or Use 1-ClickSign in to turn on 1-Click ordering. 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:this book changed how I talk with everyone, May 17, 1999Reviewer:Connie McGregor from Vancouver Island, BCI read this book and started my own circle of older women. We call ourselves the Grandmothers Circle. Using the simple and yet profound structure of Christinas work, we are finding ways to support each other in all issues that face us. The circle is what holds our concerns and provides enough safety for people to share with each other. Christina talks about the circle in a lot of different settings, this is the one that is most meaningful to me.Was this review helpful to you? Excellent introduction to the use of shared leadership, April 14, 1998Reviewer:rebscar(see more about me)from Shrewsbury, NJThis is an excellent introduction to the use of shared leadership techniques in groups of all kinds from business to spiritual groups.Was this review helpful to you? 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:The Circle can strengthen your bonds of friendship or work., August 20, 1996Reviewer:A readerAs the millenium ends, many of us are searching... searchingfor spiritual and social awareness. Christina Baldwinshows that we may strengthen both our spiritual and socialties through the circle. She links the circle back to prehistoric camp fires, but also shows its usefullness inthe quest for better software development. Her circle hasthree components: rotating leadership, shared responsibility,and a reliance on the spiritual. Whether you are planning aone-time business meeting or seeking a long-term groupbonding, you may find your Calling in the Circle.. . . .Read More
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