Christina Baldwin Livres

Collaboration and group cohesion are vital to any healthy enterprise. In collaborative environments, good ideas can come from everywhere. Today’s thoughtful leaders support interpersonal experiences that ensure clear speaking, open-minded listening, and well-grounded decision making.Reintroducing our most ancient social process, the circle, welcomes everyone to equal participation. Here, two international leaders of circle as a modern methodology offer a comprehensive guide to this foundational human interaction.The Circle Way lays out the basics of circle conversation based on the authors’ nearly two decades of experience implementing circle practice in organizations. Through illustrative stories that show the circle in action and delve into its deepest aspects, Baldwin and Linnea provide detailed instructions for getting started, setting intention, and resolving conflicts. Their work illuminates the profound impact of circle on people who participate in it.

“The wisdom is timeless and the updates fresh as Christina Baldwin brings this classic into a new century. Her clear, calm vision for writing as spiritual practice emanates from every page.”—Kathleen Adams, author of Journal to the Self In this classic book you will discover the intimate journey of personal and spiritual development that is possible through the practice of journal writing. In Life’s Companion, acclaimed author Christina Baldwin offers readers guidance and inspiration to this powerful way of expanding our inner horizons and opening our minds and spirits to a deeper relationship with the world and the people around us. Complete with enlightening quotations, exercises, sample journal entries, and techniques to nurture and encourage the writer and seeker within you, Life’s Companion will help you transform journaling into a powerful tool for self-growth, heightened awareness, and personal fulfillment.

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 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.

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Meetings in the round have become the preferred tool for moving individual commitment into group action. This book lays out the structure of circle conversation, based on the original work of the authors who have standardized the essential elements that constitute circle practice.

Unsere zerstreute und hektische Zeit benötigt eine neue Form von Gesprächen und Meetings: Circle. Diese Methode ist mehr als nur eine andere Anordnung der Stühle. Im Kreis sind alle Teilnehmer Führende, definierte Positionen werden rotierend wahrgenommen und nach Bedarf eingesetzt. Dies schafft einen Raum der Konzentration, in dem wir mit anderen, mit uns und mit unserer Intuition in Kontakt kommen und in dem wir aus unserer Mitte sprechen und agieren. Im Circle hören wir ungewöhnlich gut zu, denken mit hoher Achtsamkeit gemeinsam nach und lernen voneinander. Die Methode unterstützt dabei, komplexe Themen angemessen zu bearbeiten, zu guten Lösungen zu kommen und dabei zu einer Gemeinschaft zusammenzuwachsen. Circle ist daher ein wegweisendes Werkzeug sowohl für Moderatoren und Berater als auch für alle, die Gruppen und Organisationen führen. Die international bekannten Autorinnen Christina Baldwin und Ann Linnea haben über zwei Jahrzehnte hinweg die Methode »Circle« zu einem Werkzeug entwickelt, das sowohl in Workshops und Konferenzen als auch in den alltäglichen Meetings von Führungskräften eingesetzt werden kann. Aus dem Inhalt: Die Elemente des Kreises Abwechselnd wahrgenommene Führungsrollen im Kreis Verantwortlichkeit durch Vereinbarungen, Praktiken und Prinzipien Der Kreis als Paradigmenwechsel Geleitwort zur deutschen Ausgabe von Matthias zur Bonsen, Jutta Herzog und Myriam Mathys