Tamarack Song - The Talking Circle

A Heart-Centered Approach to Conflict, Community and Healing

Learn how to use this highly effective communication and decision-making process that has been passed down from our ancestors, and is still used today in indigenous cultures. Yet the Talking Circle works just as well in our contemporary lives, as it is the way we are designed to come to one voice. You’ll get instructions for incorporating the Talking Circle process into relationship, family, therapy, work, school, political, social, and cultural settings.

There can be the desire to listen, but there also needs to be the ability to listen. The Talking Circle process automatically creates a safe listening environment, where everybody’s voice is heard, and everybody’s opinion counts.

• Take the first big step: transitioning from ego to Circle consciousness.
• Incorporate how other social animals use the Talking Circle.
• Plan and hold a Talking Circle: 
  • The best ways to call a Talking Circle
  • Use of the Talking Stick
  • The role of consensus
  • Opening and closing rituals
  • Troubleshooting tips
• And more

During the workshop, we practice what we are learning by holding Talking Circles to discuss relevant issues in your life, and in the world. And we look at each workshop participants’ unique circumstances, to figure out how the Talking Circle can be best utilized.

Caution: The Talking Circle is known to bring about deep healing, peacefully resolve conflict, and create a warm and safe sense of community. Enroll in this workshop only if you are sure this is what you want.