THE ART & PRACTICE OF CIRCLES

Thursday 21st May & Friday 22nd May, 2026, St Ethelburgas, London
THE ART & PRACTICE OF CIRCLES: A TWO DAY TRAINING
For those called to facilitate beginnings, thresholds and endings, with depth, maturity and care

Every training teaches the content. Not all training teaches capacity and experience.

You can be skilled at your craft and still find yourself at a loss when the group gets real. When the room goes quiet in the wrong way. When something heavy arrives and you don't know whether to move toward it or let it pass. When you sense the energy shifting and don't quite know what to do with what you're feeling.

This isn't a failure of knowledge. It's a lack of embodiment. We don't have a lack of information. We have a lack of capacity to feel, sense, and be unafraid to approach. To allow what wants to emerge come out into the open and be present for its time.

That's what this gathering is for.

Circle isn't a methodology. It isn't a set of steps. To quote Quanita: “Circle isn't a thing — it's a thing that holds things.”

It's a way of tending to a group with the group. Not above it, not outside it, but as an integral part of it. 

Most of us already know this. We've felt it around a kitchen table, in a room where something real happened, in a conversation that changed us. We know it in our bones even when we can't name it. This training is less about learning something new and more about remembering something old, together. Developing the capacity to find our way back to connection when it matters most.

In these times of confusion, fracture and paradox, we need people who know how to be with each other in the hard and tender places. Not to fix or solve but to witness. To tend. To welcome silence in the space, and perhaps a loudness in the body to rest in the collective field of us.

To remember that how we go together matters far more than where.

This is for someone who is hungry for more aliveness. Who has felt the difference between a group that is genuinely alive and one that is just going through the motions. It is for those who want to understand the how and the why.

Seekers and searchers. People in comfort and people in discomfort. Managers, facilitators, team leaders, consultants, coaches, entrepreneurs. Educators, artists, poets, musicians, faith community leaders. Community organisers, social change activists, therapists, architects. The olders and the youngers, and those who work with both. Men, women, the in-betweens and the undecideds. All people hungry for a deeper wisdom of heart, mind and belly.

You might work in any field that puts you in front of groups. What matters isn't your background. It's the sense that something is missing in how you are in a room, not just in what you know.

No prior experience of Circle is required.

Over two days, you will work with:

The core principles and leadership roles within Circle

This is applied learning. You will feel it before you name it. You will practise, reflect and integrate — not simply observe.

We won't be teaching you a formula. We will be opening up an opportunity for depth and connection. What moves in you over these two days we can't predict — the shift won't be the same for everyone. What we can tell you is that something moves.

St Ethelburga's was bombed, restored and made into a centre for peace and reconciliation. The building itself carries the work. It is, as one of us put it, another host.

Thursday 21st & Friday 22nd May 2026. Doors open 9am. 9.30am–5pm both days. Tea, coffee and light refreshments provided. Lunch options nearby. St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG Fully wheelchair accessible. Contact us for specific requirements.

We offer three pricing bands to reflect the different economic realities within our community. We trust you to choose what genuinely reflects your circumstances — this is itself part of the practice.

You are welcome to contribute above the ask. If none of these is accessible, please reach out.

Monthly payment plans available — contact [email protected]

A small number of bursary places are available. To apply, send a few sentences or a short video about why you want to come. We'll listen to every one.

Cancellations and Refunds

Up to 30 days prior to the start date of the training, you can have a full refund minus any processing fee's which can be up to 7.5%. During the 30 days leading up to the event, no refund is possible. We invite you to find a replacement to join the training, or we can offer it to anyone on the waiting list, and that person can reimburse you.

The Team

Quanita Roberson - Facilitator
For more than two decades, Quanita has facilitated transformative workshops, rites of passage and leadership programmes across the United States and internationally, working at the intersection of grief, initiation, race and spiritual maturity. A master teacher shaped by deep indigenous mentorship and integral theory, she carries an uncommon capacity to hold complexity, reconcile differences and guide groups through profound emotional and systemic work with steadiness and authority.

Jamie Colston - Facilitator
Over the past 15 years, Jamie has trained extensively in Systemic Constellations and Art of Hosting participatory process, supporting and designing training while curating and facilitating innovative and intergenerational community learning spaces. An artist, poet and ritual maker, he brings rigorous systemic practice together with embodied creativity, enabling groups to move beyond conversation into lived, relational experience.

Nic Seuren - Facilitator
Nic is a systemic coach and facilitator who works in the crucible of structure, relationship and lived experience. With roots in commercial strategy and training in family and organisational constellations, she combines structural clarity with a grounded, attentive presence and a deep sensitivity. Much of what she knows about circle she has developed around her kitchen table — gathering people, feeding them, creating the conditions where something real can happen. She brings steadiness, discernment and practical wisdom — and an instinct for creating spaces where people can actually be themselves.

Moi Tu - Wisdom Artist
Moi is an artist, consultant and facilitator who works at the intersection of creativity and collective sense-making. She supports groups in workplaces and communities to collaborate with more imagination, meaning and human connection, especially when the work is complex or emotionally charged. Her practice draws on visual and artful dialogue methods that loosen knots, surface hidden stories and make space for voices that are often overlooked.