The Ecological Us circle recordings are designed to bring listeners a fly-on-the-wall experience of being in a circle from start to finish. To keep the experience as authentic as possible, these recordings utilise Zoom instead of a podcasting studio (since so many of us are used to Zoom) and this means that the sound quality isn’t great. You’ll also join us when we sit in silence and reflection.
In this episode, Daphne, Emily, Nynke, and I sat in circle and explored hope and grief.
You’ll join us as we:
➵ ‘check-in’, sharing our names, location, pronouns, and how we are as we arrive in the circle.
➵ journey into our hair as an emboded gateway into the relationality and interbeing that we humans move within as ecological creatures.
➵ dive into the enquiry with questions alive in Daphne: How do I allow myself to thrive in a world that is so full of brokenness? How much do I allow myself to fully live, want the best for myself and my children, and really walk my stride in as much expansion as I can while really understanding the context and the heartbreak that is going on around me and in me?
➵ ‘check-out’, sharing how we are as we leave the circle and what we’ll be carrying with us from our time together.
(Note: this circle chose not to co-create circle agreements - normally you would hear us share and be guided by these.)
Circle Members
Nynke Vos is an expert in group dynamics, works with a systemic perspective, and is trained in grief counseling. She has a special interest in rituals for grief, mourning and death. She has led groups of teenagers and young adults over 15 years, supporting them in their transition into adulthood. Currently she works as a coach in youth care and as a grief counselor. She hosts on- and off-line conversations about grief and death, and organises ‘grief and dance’, an evening where grievers come to dance.
Daphne van Run grew up in The Netherlands where she was thoroughly educated in the world of law and business. She then moved to Devon, UK, to immerse herself in sustainable living. For 13 years, relational awareness is at the heart of her work with leaders, change makers, and groups. Learn more about Daphne here.
Emily Bazalgette helps people to collaborate in regenerative ways and design graceful endings through facilitation, coaching, organisational design and grief tending. She is a co-host of
, connecting women more deeply with creative energy, and the writer of , a project that explores chronic illness grief. Emily also authors the substack.Anna-Marie Swan’s ongoing discovery of herself as an ecological creature saturates her work, interests, and perspectives. She walks herself home in Devon, UK, alongside her husband, W and navigating health challenges throughout her adult life has widened her gaze into animism, interbeing, the more-than-human, living systems, place, ecology, and more.
