Shadow Keeping/Navigating our Shadows/Leaving the Agenda at the Door
Mode: 90 minutes held for this Module. Question and answer will be held afterward.
Use: Participants create a list of all the un-easeful responses during the rock formation exercise. The participants are asked to consider how their responses could affect the circle if they were facilitators. The Newburgh Model of circle keeping asks that circle keepers to leave their agenda at the door and hold space for members of our communities to work together in a new way. Thus identifying shadows, examining them, and releasing them are integral parts of the circle facilitation process. Discussion will follow on what it means to be a facilitator/circle keeper. When running circles, facilitators will learn that a community circle requires for them to be patient, leave their own agenda at the door, and address any other personal internal conflicts so that the community has a clear space to be together to access their dormant wisdom.
Goal: To learn what it means to be a facilitator/circle keeper and how The Restorative Center’s model is different than other models that exist.
Objectives: Participants will:
- list the challenges they experienced during the rock exercise;
- discuss how to navigate the challenges that emerge from sharing power in a group;
- understand their own personal responsibility is to clear their space to hold a bigger space for the
Method: List making will occur and time will be allotted for open discussions.