Berlin Circling & Surrendered Leadership Weekends

In Circling, we bring meditative acceptance and awareness to what’s happening in the moment, in us and between us. We research what interconnectivity is and explore our perception of reality from moment to moment. What develops can contain the full spectrum of human experience, stretching from emotional expression, connection and boundaries, through spiritual insights, heightened sensory receptivity and non-ordinary states of awareness, to various manifestations of aliveness. Surrendered Leadership (SL) involves following the immediacy of the relational flow that emerges within a group. It is a paradigm of leadership that transcends the presumption that a leader’s role is to impose a certain direction or structure. Instead, we focus on developing the capacity to attune to what is already happening and to explore it with presence, thereby opening up organic and deep developmental potential.

Join if you want to:

• learn about and develop your relational patterns
• connect with expanded, embodied awareness and show up from it
• practise self-leadership and take responsibility for how you relate to the world and others
• refine your connection to the body and see what it is like to follow its guidance
• visit interpersonal and transpersonal territories of your consciousness

Who can join?
This event is suited to people trying Circling (also known as Transformational Connection) and Surrendered Leadership for the first time, as well as to experienced participants.
If you have any questions about the weekend, or want to try the practice with the host, you are welcome to join Mateusz for a 30-minute Circling intro call. More info on the event landing page.

https://www.embodiedrelease.dk/circling-berlin-january

What will happen?
The core practices we will introduce and explore are Circling and Surrendered Leadership, practised in the lineage of the Transformational Connection organisation. To read more about these approaches, visit the event landing page.
We will introduce a variety of exercises that support grounding in the practice and getting to know its fundamentals and atmosphere. These exercises will often happen in pairs or small groups. We will learn by doing, and create spaces for sense-making and debriefing, while also befriending states of not-knowing. The content and structure of our collective process will be mostly emergent, meaning that it will be tailored as well as possible to meet what participants are facing, and to support the expression of what we want and long for.
A good share of the weekend we will likely spend in the form of the practice called Surrendered Leadership, or Flow. This is when we come together as a group and explore the emergence of the present moment from a place of surrender. It is a deeply touching, potent and transformative approach that invites us to embrace polarities and paradoxes, to outgrow our habituated ways of being, to bring forth the gifts of our hearts and souls, and to confront our blind spots.

Facilitator team
Mateusz’s Circling passion started in 2019, and since 2022 he has hosted the practice regularly and completed multiple trainings in Circling and Surrendered Leadership facilitation.
He works as a somatic therapist and focuses on modalities rooted in touch, breath, presence and psychotherapeutic inquiry. He carries a deep curiosity and wonder about the nature of reality, consciousness, and the potential that exists in human awareness, including interpersonal and transpersonal states. His training includes BioDynamic Breathwork, Myofascial Energetic Release bodywork, Compassionate Inquiry by Gabor Maté, and Circling, with a background in Internal Family Systems and the Work of Byron Katie. Currently he is a student of Gestalt psychotherapy. His style of leadership is strongly informed by following the intelligence of the body, moving from the life force, and a commitment to deep listening and heart-centred awareness. He is passionate about dancing, the integration of spirituality and contemporary psychology, the state of the world, and community building.
The weekend will also be joined by a group of 2–5 experienced Circling or relational practitioners, who will support our group process with their surrendered leadership and humanness. Invited to the team are other certified practice leaders, or people who have spent a good amount of time in the Circling paradigm or other similar approaches.

Price & sing-ups
Early bird ticket is 195 € and regular costs 240 €.
More info and sign-up form available at:
https://www.embodiedrelease.dk/circling-berlin-january