Affectively - Circle Practice: A Format to Model Self-Organizing with Ria Baeck | The HOW
Channel: Greaterthan
Date: 2024-02-28

In this episode of Affectively Alicía interviews Ria Baeck, a long-term self-organising, collective presencing, and trauma-informed practitioner, as well as a coach and therapist. 

We go back to the basics of hosting and self-organising by diving into “Circle Practice”. Ria walks us through the basics, common-pitfalls, dos and don’ts and we explore together the role of emotions in this key collective practice.  It was a treat for me to go through this sort of gentle and deep masterclass. It’s always good to review some “basics” and, especially, when such a simple format can hold and offer so much depth and complexity. It’s always a learning process. 

The research for this podcast has received support from project Cosmolocalism, funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 802512) and hosted by the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology. 

00:00:00 Begin
00:00:10 Introduction
00:03:12 The basics of circle practice
00:11:11 Principles of circle practice
00:16:36 The sizes for Circle Practice
00:18:50 Circle Practice in what occasions?
00:22:41 Why circle practice?
00:25:32 In what structures and cultures can we do circle practice? What are the conditions?
00:32:07 Circle Practice as a way of experimenting and learning
00:33:43 Emotional experiences during and around Circle Practice and self-organising
00:51:21 Humane organisations and limits
00:52:32 Systemic tensions manifesting in teams
00:58:14 Humane organisations and limits part II
01:09:36 Common Pitfalls of Circle Practice
01:12:27 Self-organising and Circle Practice
01:17:23 Closing remarks


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