Summary
Collective Presencing is a group dialogue practice, built on sitting in circle, in which people try to be fully present ‘with body, heart and mind’ and make sense of things together. Ria Baeck developed it with a group of women over six years and thirteen gatherings, and wrote it up in the book ‘Collective Presencing’.
It builds on Art of Hosting’s circle practice, Theory U’s kinds of listening and the Quaker habit of speaking only when moved. Baeck describes two phases: learning to be present to oneself and the group, then widening awareness to “the wider context of soul, time and space”. Its regular online sessions are free.
Rationale
A small instance of what Part 2 asks of any work: does it “provide opportunities to embody experience or reshape relationships”? Here that is the whole offer. Whether it touches deep dispositions, we can’t say.