Calling the Circle The First and Future Culture Format: Paperback

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Publication Year: 1998 gtin13: 9780553379006 Item Height: 0.6 in Language: English Narrative Type: book Item Width: 6 in Format: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780553379006 Topic: Communication Studies, Personal Growth / General, Communication & Social Skills, Decision-Making & Problem Solving, General, Interpersonal Relations Item Weight: 10 oz Item Length: 9 in Publisher: Random House Publishing Group Type: book Number of Pages: 256 Pages Intended Audience: General/trade Author: Christina Baldwin Book Title: Calling the Circle : the First and Future Culture Genre: Religion, Language Arts & Disciplines, Self-Help, Education, Psychology Illustrator: Yes Features: Revised

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 Baldwin's groundbreaking work to an even broader audience ranging from women's 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 Eisler's The Chalice and the Blade or Peter Senge's 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 women's 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.