Psychology · 1 work here

Co-author of a 2022 Lund University psychology thesis evaluating an Authentic Relating weekend course.

Psychology · 1 work here

Co-author of a 2022 Lund University psychology thesis evaluating an Authentic Relating weekend course.

Sociology · Western New Mexico University · 1 work here

Sociologist of emotions, religion and family whose ethnography is the only peer-reviewed study of Authentic Relating and Circling communities.

Social services · 1 work here

Author of a 2025 guide for facilitators of Authentic Relating connection games, written as a thesis at Häme University of Applied Sciences.

Sustainability leadership · 1 work here

Originator of the Deep Adaptation concept and founder of the Deep Adaptation Forum; co-author of the account of Deep Relating.

Facilitation · 1 work here

A founding member of the Deep Adaptation Forum’s core team and co-author of the account of Deep Relating.

Philosophy and performance · 1 work here

Philosopher and performance artist who studies conversation as a medium for inquiry; a co-founder of The School of Making Thinking, trained in Circling and Authentic Relating.

Participatory design · 1 work here

Design researcher who studies relational sensitivity in participatory design; PhD from Mälardalen University (2023).

Education and participatory research · 1 work here

Participatory-research specialist who brought Circling principles into the training of peer researchers in disability research.

Philosophy · Kingsborough Community College, CUNY · 1 work here

Philosopher who lists Circling and Authentic Relating among the tools of philosophical counselling.

Cognitive science · University of Toronto · 1 work here

Cognitive scientist who has developed dialogue practices with Guy Sengstock and uses authentic relating exercises in teaching.

Dreamwork · 1 work here

Dreamwork practitioner, certified in Integral Circling, who developed Dream Circling.

Social psychology · Stony Brook University · 1 work here

Social psychologist of close relationships, known for the self-expansion model and the closeness procedure behind the “36 questions”.

Psychology · 1 work here

Research psychologist known for work on sensory-processing sensitivity; co-author of the closeness-generating procedure.

Social psychology · 1 work here

Social psychologist and first author of the ReSource Project’s study of contemplative dyads.

Management and organisation · Stockholm School of Economics · 4 works here

Management researcher who studies how managers carry meditation into their working lives, and designs contemplative exercises for teaching self-awareness and empathy.

Social neuroscience · 1 work here

First author of the 2024 randomised trial of online partner practice and loneliness, run at the Max Planck Society’s Social Neuroscience Lab.

Social neuroscience · Social Neuroscience Lab, Max Planck Society · 3 works here

Social neuroscientist who founded and led the ReSource Project, where contemplative dyads were developed and tested.

Physics and philosophy · 1917–1992 · 1 work here

Theoretical physicist who, late in life, developed a group practice of dialogue built on suspending assumptions so a group can examine them together.

Philosophy of dialogue · 1878–1965 · 1 work here

Austrian-born Jewish philosopher of dialogue. His distinction between I–It and I–Thou is the clearest account of what it means to meet another person.

Philosophy and cognitive science · 1 work here

Philosopher and cognitive scientist who developed participatory sense-making with Ezequiel Di Paolo: an account of how people understand one another through their bodies and the dynamics of their interaction.

Enactive cognitive science · IAS-Research Centre, University of the Basque Country · 1 work here

Cognitive scientist and philosopher of enaction who developed participatory sense-making with Hanne De Jaegher.

Phenomenology · 1929–2017 · 1 work here

American philosopher at the University of California, Berkeley, whose commentary made Heidegger’s account of everyday life readable.

Philosophy and psychotherapy · 1926–2017 · 1 work here

Philosopher and psychotherapist who worked with Carl Rogers at the University of Chicago and developed Focusing, a practice of attending to the felt sense.

Phenomenology · 1889–1976 · 1 work here

German philosopher whose accounts of being-with, solicitude and attunement offer a vocabulary for what happens between people in a circle.

Phenomenology and ethics · 1906–1995 · 1 work here

Lithuanian-born French philosopher for whom the encounter with another person, who always exceeds our understanding, is the origin of ethics.

Phenomenology · 1908–1961 · 1 work here

French phenomenologist who placed the lived body at the centre of perception, and of our understanding of other people.

Moral philosophy · 1919–1999 · 1 work here

Irish-born British philosopher and novelist who made attention, the patient and just looking at another person, central to ethics.

Circling and Authentic Relating

Co-founder of the early San Francisco community Soul2Soul, the Authentic Man Program and The Integral Center.

Circling

Co-creator of Circling with Guy Sengstock; together they led the first Circling weekends, the Arete Experience, from 1998.

Circling

Co-founder of Authentic World and The Integral Center in Boulder, where the Integral Circling approach and its trainer programme were developed.

Authentic Relating · ART International

Co-founder of Authentic Relating Training International and author of a short history of the practice.

Authentic Relating · ART International

Co-founder of Authentic Relating Training International and author of a practitioner guide to Authentic Relating (2022).

Circling

Co-founder of The Integral Center in Boulder in 2011, home of the Integral Circling approach.

Authentic Relating · Authentic Revolution

Founder of Authentic Revolution and creator of the Authentic Relating Games Manual.

Gestalt therapy · 1893–1970 · 2 works here

German-born psychoanalyst who developed Gestalt therapy and, at Esalen in the 1960s, its “hot seat” workshops. Circling’s own histories name Gestalt among the practice’s roots.

Circling · The Circling Institute

Co-creator of Circling with Jerry Candelaria in San Francisco in the late 1990s, and founder of The Circling Institute.

Circling · Transformational Connection

Co-founder of Circling Europe, now Transformational Connection; credited with Circling’s five principles and with Surrendered Leadership.

Circling · Transformational Connection

Co-founder of Circling Europe, now Transformational Connection.