The Art & Practice of Circles: A Two Day Training Course
Thursday 21st May & Friday 22nd May, 2026
St Ethelburgas, London
For those called to facilitate beginnings, thresholds and endings, with depth, maturity and care
In these confusing times of multiple truths and paradoxes, we need collective spaces to sense integrity, widen our understanding, and re-member ourselves to each other and the greater story of us.
This training explores the human and collective practice of Circle, as a facilitation form and a way of being together. Designed for those who facilitate groups of any size, it responds to a growing need for depth, maturity and responsibility in group work.
As a team of three facilitators, offering different cultural lenses, lived experiences, and working histories, we will develop collective listening, container-building and energetic perception of groups.
Participants will experience a Circle held by experienced practitioners while engaging in applied learning — practising the core principles, leadership roles and design elements that enable powerful questions, meaningful ritual, and space hosting which resources the work. Through story, structured practice and reflection, you will not only understand Circle — you will work with it. This is an invitation not simply to facilitate Circle, but to live it with dignity, clarity and care, and begin applying it to more areas of life.
Who is this for?
Seekers, searchers, people in comfort, people in discomfort.
We welcome people from all walks of life, all professions.
Managers, facilitators, team leaders, consultants, coaches, entrepreneurs.
Educators, artists, poets, musicians, faith community leaders, and government.
Community organizers, social change activists, therapists.
We welcome the older and the youngers, and people working with the olders and those working with the youngers.
We welcome men, women, the in-betweens, and the undecideds.
All people seeking a substantially better wisdom of heart, mind, and belly.
Over two days, you will work with:
The core principles and leadership roles within Circle
Collective listening as a living practice
Container-building: how to open, hold and close a space well
Crafting powerful, clean questions that invite depth rather than debate
Working with group energetics - sensing what is emerging and responding with steadiness
Deep and meaningful ritual that supports integration
Practical space hosting - structure, rhythm, pacing and transition
The relationship between hosting yourself and hosting others
This is applied learning. You will practise, reflect, experiment and integrate — not simply observe.
Practical Information
Thursday 21st May & Friday 22nd May 2026. Doors open at 9am. Start at 9.30am - 5pm both days.
Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be provided for breaks during the day. There are plenty of options around the venue for lunch.
The Venue
St Ethelburga’s Center for Reconcilation and Peace destroyed by an IRA bomb in 1993,
resurrected as a centre for reconciliation and peace in 2002, St Ethelburga's is a symbol of hope from the ashes.
78 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4AG
Accessibility
St Ethelburga’s is a wheelchair accessible venue. In the instance you have specific requirements please contact us.
Ticketing
We are offering three pricing bands to reflect the different economic realities within our community. Each band has a limited number of places, and we trust participants to choose the level that best reflects their circumstances.
Choosing your ticket is part of the practice of responsibility — to yourself and to the wider circle. In all instances, you are welcome to contribute above the ask, you are also invited to contact us if the below is not accessible for you.
For monthly payments please contact us jamie@jamiecolston.com
TICKETS
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.
Our Team
Quanita Roberson
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.
Facilitator
Jamie Colston
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.
Facilitator
Nic is a systemic coach and facilitator who works in the crucible of structure, relationship and lived experience. Attentive to the patterns shaping both people and the spaces they gather in, 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. She brings steadiness, discernment and practical wisdom to to facilitating people and place, time and space.
FacilitatorNic Seuren
Moi Tu
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.
Wisdom ArtistThe Art & Practice of Circle
Join us on one of three calls so that you can experience the practice and see if the May training above is for you.
Each session is a 75 minute online introduction to Jamie’s Circle work.
Experience the practice; meet the group; explore whether the May training is right for you.
We will share a simple structure: framing, check in, a round on what is alive for you and why you feel called to this work, then closing and questions.
Bring a drink; make yourself comfortable; mark the time in a way that feels meaningful.
Invite Jamie & the I Am. We Are. Collective to be Systems Partner & Artists in Residence from Sepember 2026…
From Autumn 2026, Jamie is working with systems on a one year, three year or seven year cycle. The work that is needed in this time is relational, creative, trust orientated and multi-skilled. Jamie brings Participatory Facilitation, Creative Practice, Systemic Constellations, and Modern day ritual practices to sensing complex landscapes. Organisations meeting; politics, home, social care and communities, planetary changes, adaptations and collapse, and more.
We need Artists, System sensors, and wisdom teams to support transitions and thresholds that move us from individual focus and competition, to collective and collaboration. This is who we are and what we do.
We look forward to meeting you.