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Deepening with Council Ways Through the Body

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April 4, 2025
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April 7, 2025
This simple ceremony is an opportunity to absorb ourselves in a way of being that opens us to the deepest listening. We invite our awareness beyond what we think we know, what we like or dislike. This allows us to connect body/heart/mind/soul and release deep rooted habitual tensions. It’s about stopping, waiting and allowing without an agenda, without an intention; Read more...
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Council I – Introduction to the Way of Council

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April 4, 2025, 5:00 pm
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April 6, 2025, 4:00 pm
An in-person, residential weekend training event to encounter, learn to love Council, and learn how to share Council. A 2-3 day training that allows you to experience this powerful set of group practices, and to learn the basics of facilitating your own Council circles. This is experiential learning, where we learn by doing, gradually going deeper as our skills and Read more...

Council in Education, Pedagogy and Practice – bringing a Rites of Passage Framework into the Educational Mainstream

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April 8, 2025
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April 10, 2025
8th -10th April 2025. Council in Education, Pedagogy and Practice – Bringing a Rites of Passage Framework into the Educational Mainstream It is exciting to have Joe Provisor of Circle Ways coming to offer this workshop at Bracken Tor Youth Hostel, Okehampton, Devon. This is both a fringe event/pre workshop for the Wilderness Guides Gathering 2025, and also open to Read more...

Practice of Council in Nature

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June 20, 2025
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June 27, 2025
Speaking and Listening from the Heart and the Heart of the Earth Council is an ancient form and a modern practice rooted in nature and the land. Sitting in Council offers a way of communicating that encourages both attentive listening and honest compassionate expression. This practice recognizes that we all share a piece of the truth, that we all have Read more...
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Council I – Introduction to the Way of Council

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September 5, 2025, 10:00 am
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September 7, 2025, 5:00 pm
Building on last year’s Council1 course, and the forming of a local community around the Way of Council practice, we are holding Council 1 again at the wonderful Timberyard Farm in Suffolk (a short drive from Norwich or Ipswich, and only just over 1 hour by train from London). In 2026 we plan to offer a Council 2 Going Deeper Read more...

Way of Council & Community

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October 24, 2025
Way of Council – Creating Community Peace & Refuge in uncertain times  “Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing” – Rollo May   What is Council? When needing to discuss and come to an understanding about issues relating to the community, many of our ancestors sat in Council. Their inclusive and non-hierarchical approach honoured the diversity Read more...