Calling the Circle:first+future Culture

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The circle has been used as a spiritual & social form since the first campfires. People gather into circles to call on Spirit, to celebrate, to hold council, to create community, to govern by consensus, to make cooperative decisions & take action. In her definitive new work, activist author Christina Baldwin introduces a structure for calling the circle & exploring its potential to empower us in our ordinary lives. Using three principles - ROTATING LEADERSHIP, SHARED RESPONSIBILITY & ATTENTION TO SPIRIT - Baldwin constructs a model for circling she's named PEERSPIRIT & shows how this model may be applied at home, work, school & in civic & religious organizations. In the past twenty-five years, through self-help, therapy & recovery, millions of people have experienced a shift in personal awareness. This book extends the shift to include spiritual & political awareness. Chapter by chapter, Baldwin builds her vision of a society where the circle is used in everyday life to empower personal action. This book illustrates how skills learned in the human potential movement can be used in circle to create spiritually-based social change. The exquisite cover is by renowned artist Susan Boulet.