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In this episode, Julia talks to Lee Keylock of Narrative 4 and they covered:
* Storytelling around controversial topics build community through revealing nuance
* How exactly Narrative 4’s Story Exchange works through experiencing radical empathy in circle
* That empathy starts with the courage and generosity to try to listen
* Hearing your story told by someone else lets you see it in a new light
* Facilitation is key to handle the emotional space and a co-facilitator helps keep the flow going
* That there is nothing soft about the skill of facilitation and it improves through practice...

This week we will be answering the question what is circle? 

A circle is a tool that can be used in a whole variety of contexts, some of which you will hear about in other episodes.
In its purest form it is: In person, a group of people sitting in a circle who can all see and hear each other each having the opportunity to listen and talk.
Online it is a group of people who can do the same however the people tend to be in boxes rather than an actual circle.

There is a structure to circle holding...

This episode will be reassuring for new circle facilitators and get lots of nods of recognition from experienced ones. In this episode we talked about:
- Imposter syndrome is normal when moving from 121 to group work
- The difference between a leader, teacher and facilitator
- How you grow capacity to hold space as you do it
- That it’s normal for group process to be messy
- The more you bring yourself as a person to facilitation, the more you enable others to
- Having a clear intention for your circle is paramount
- You don't want the...

In this episode, Julia and Tessa introduce themselves through:
* the circles they've attended,
* how they met
* their favourite circle stories from the book
* why they wrote the book

The first episode of the Circle Holding Podcast.