Compassion: Circling & Surrendered Leadership Weekend Stockholm

At this weekend immersion we will focus on compassion. What makes compassion awaken in us? What happens when we meet each other and ourselves compassionately?

The quote “compassion awakens conscientiousness” shows how impactful it can be when we are met with compassion. How being compassionate can feel like bravery and really turn tensions and conflict into understanding. What does compassion feel like in our bodies when we cultivate it?

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Vision
The invitation for this circling & Surrendered Leadership weekend is to practice and explore compassion. Both for ourselves and each other.
Compassion does not mean that we just tolerate whatever, but it's a call to see the other person with understanding and love. We can be compassionate while also keeping our boundaries firm. In fact, that might be an act of compassion. 
The same goes for meeting ourselves: to meet ourselves with understanding and love.

Some of the themes that will likely come up this weekend are: 
- Getting in touch with parts of yourself that feel wrong, inappropriate or harmful.
- Trusting and moving with innocence. 
- Listening for the needs in what is being spoken
- Seeing others in their imperfect perfection. 

We will as always be training the muscles of:
- Staying connected to your present moment experience.
- Allowing yourself to be impacted by others and sharing that impact.
- Generously sharing yourself in service of connection.
- Deeply listening to the experience of others.
- Meeting others from a place of love.
- Bringing presence and truth into connection without being attached to the outcome.

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What are relational presencing practices
With relational presencing practices we are pointing to practices  and leadership approaches such as Circling, Relatefulness and Transformational Connection. These practices are great for getting more in touch with our present moment experience together with someone else. It typically involves sharing our thoughts, feelings or bodily sensations as they are happening and then seeing how it impacts the people around us.

What is Surrendered Leadership?
One way of understanding Surrendered Leadership is that it is an opportunity to see your own Karma in action. You get to see how the way you are holding yourself in the world impacts others and thus feeds back to become your experience of the world. More concretely Surrendered Leadership is a group practice where you are invited to surrender/welcome whatever is happening for you in the moment and lead yourself from there.

What is embodiment?
Embodiment points to actually being there, in your body, taking up as much space as you do with whatever is going on for you. The path to more embodiment typically is a process of discovery where we start noticing all the ways in which we are holding ourselves back, suppressing emotions or not trusting that we are welcome.

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Practicalities
The immersion happens on January 17th-18th, 10.00-18.00 at yogarummet Björkhagen in Stockholm. 

The suggested price for the event is 300 euro.

We hold an intention of wanting everyone to be able to participate, regardless of income situation. If you find that the regular price is too high for you, you can choose a price that feels honoring of the work while possible for you to pay.

If on the other hand, the suggested price feels very cheap (if you are thinking that this event  can’t be high quality, because of the price, this is for you), we would appreciate it if you would pay a bit more. This will also help us support those, who are not able to pay the suggested price.  

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Leaders
This weekend is led by Peter Munthe-Kaas and Mareike Christensen.

Peter Munthe-Kaas
I am a Copenhagen based researcher, body therapist, coach and workshop facilitator. I am interested in practices that support me and others in relating and listening better and believe that the ability to relate to myself, others, society and nature is key to living a happy life in service of what is good in the world.

Mareike Christensen
I am a trained integral psychotherapist and offer conflict mediation and coaching and lead embodied and relational presencing workshops. In my workshops which I have led since 2020 people often feel both confronted and called by my truthfulness and deep attunement. I trust deeply in my experience and like to follow a sense of aliveness into the unknown.