Trust and Surrender: Circling & Surrendered Leadership Weekend Stock

This weekend immersion is an opportunity to get closer to what deeply matters for you and how you can bring it into your life. Explore what it is like for you to really show up with your truth and lead yourself. Find new ways of really being with others and to cultivate connection.

Vision

We lead these relational presencing practices because we have ourselves experienced them to be profoundly supporting of living life from a more free, truthful and loving place. The ability to relate from a place of presence and connection to self is a gamechanger and allows us to actually start being in relationship with reality. In some way it is quite simple. When we start trusting that we are allowed to fully exist with all our feelings, sensations, thoughts and quirky behaviours, we can start engaging with others in a completely different way. 

When we step into the Circling & Surrendered leadership experience we are in some way engaging in a “trust exercise with God”. We attempt to surrender to and bring forth what we are truly experiencing rather than what we believe that others would like to hear. Trusting and Surrendering means getting in touch with being a part of a much larger and more complex system and how to play that part elegantly. Trusting the process while not being able to see the outcome of walking the path. 

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”

― Gospel of Thomas

This weekend will be centered around exploring trust and surrender through Relational Presencing practices, Surrendered Leadership and Embodiment. 

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. 

 

What to expect

Embodiment evening: October 24th from 17.30-21.00
The embodiment evening is meant as an introduction to the weekend, but everyone is welcome to participate. The evening will be focused mostly on embodiment and we will start off with very concretely working with getting in touch with our bodies and then start moving into connection from there. 

Weekend immersion: October 25-26th from 10.00-18.00
On the weekend immersion we will explore trust and surrender through various relational presencing practices, embodiment exercises and Surrendered leadership.


Some of the themes that almost always come up during a weekend like this are: 

• Exploring the difference between living and surviving.
• Seeing how you are likely managing other peoples impressions of you, because you want to be perceived as a good person.
• Getting in touch with the dignity that comes from being human. That simply being you is already quite significant.
• Navigating what you want in life in each moment
   

We will 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.

Pricing options

The price for the event (including the embodiment evening) is: 300 euro (25% discount if you sign up before September 1st 2025).

The price for the embodiment evening only is: 30 euro (25% discount if you sign up before September 1st 2025).

If you feel called to participate, but the price is too high for you, feel free to reach out and we will see what we can figure out. We would want everyone who feels inspired by the event to be able to participate while also honoring the quality of our work. 


Special price for leaders: 200 euro (If you sign up before September 1st 2025). 
If you are yourself a certified and active leader of Circling, Relatefulness or Transformational Connection you are invited at a lower price and you are also invited to the Leadership Development day we have on friday 31st of october from 13.00-17.00. This is an opportunity to explore the dilemmas that show up for you in group leadership and will hopefully give you inspiration on how to bring yourself forth in new ways during the weekend. 

About the Facilitators

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. Apart from my work, I feel most at peace and creative when I dance and go for walks in the forest. You can read more about me or book a call through intopresence.se

The term “Circling®️” is a registered trademark by the Circling Institute.
Mareike Christensen is certified to lead the European Circling Approach, and is licensed by the International Circling Federation to use the term, in accordance with their guidelines.You can read all about the unique distinctions between the three lineages, as well as the standards of service required of licensees, on the International Circling Federation website (internationalcirclingfederation.org)