7 tweets · February 2023 · 106 likes · 2 retweets · read on Twitter
recently experimented with some friends in doing Not Circling (full name "I Can't Believe It's Not Circling") it's basically like Circling except if there's a conflict between your concept of Circling and what you want or what feels best, you do the latter fucking loved it
maybe Not Circling is an advanced technique, or maybe arguably this is always sort of what Circling is supposed to be, or what Circling is once you take the training wheels off?
idk! I've only done a dozen circles, but I've lived a decade in cultures aiming to live in a way that makes sense all the time and isn't just in a container and this felt like a really potent bridge between the two
some specific examples of things that happened that mightn't've in a Circle: - I moved across the room to be way closer to someone who said he felt disconnected from me - some people played cards in the corner for a bit - someone wrote a theory on a whiteboard all very alive!
video expounding extensively on this topic & adjacent ones
people being like "but Circling where you do what you want is just Circling" smh
even if you're a pro who feels very liberated to do what you want during a circle, if you conceive of yourself as "doing Circling" then that is totally gonna give you a bunch of assumptions about the situation that will constrain your noticings & behavior