In this podcast, we bring you insights into circle holding, whether you are an (aspiring) circle facilitator or attendee, through interviews with experienced circle holders and conversations between Julia and Tessa, the founders of Circle Holding.

Our book Circle Holding: A Practical Guide to Facilitating Talking Circles is available at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Circle-Holding-Practical-Facilitating-Talking/dp/1805013157/

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This week's guests are Alexander Pope and Sjanie Hugo-Wurlitzer, the founders of Red School and authors of Wild Power and Wise Power, who are excellent space holders in their trainings.

In this episode we talked about:

• How co-facilitation can flow

• How preparation is key in forming the container to hold space and arrive empty to attune to what happens in the gathering

• How holding space is a creative process that also creates a new you

• A held space is a safe one, but also an emergent space for something new to happen

• That inner work is an essential part of being a facilitator

• Allowing your humanness is a gift to others when you are a facilitator and humanness in leadership is radical

• Bringing compassion to facilitation is essential because we will make mistakes.