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Circling Weekend Berlin
Surrendered Leadership Paradigm
13-15.02.2026
In Circling, we bring meditative acceptance and awareness to what’s happening in the moment in us and between us.
We research what interconnectivity is and explore our perception of reality from moment to moment. What develops can contain the full spectrum of human experience, stretching from emotional revelations, connection and boundaries, spiritual insights, heightened sensory receptivity, non-ordinary states of awareness, and various expressions of aliveness.
When we slow down, focus, and reveal what’s going on between us here and now, we create space for deeper meetings with the people around us, deeper intimacy with ourselves, and the reality we live in.
👁 We invite you for the 2.5-day journey into deep presence, exploration of authenticity in relationships, and embodiment. 👁
Who is it for?
Do you have a longing to slow down, rest in the presence of a group, and be received just as you are? Would you like to practice exploring other people’s realities with openness and acceptance? Do you wonder what it is like to express yourself from within your heart with fewer expectations and judgments? If so, this practice can be for you.
Join if you want to:
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learn about and transform your relational patterns
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connect with expanded, embodied awareness and show up from it
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practice self-leadership and maturing in relating to the world
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refine the connection to the body and see how it is to follow its impulses
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visit interpersonal and transpersonal territories of your consciousness
This event is suited for people trying Circling & Surrendered Leadership for the first time and any experienced participant. The group always (so far) consists of a mix of people at all levels of experience with the practice.
If you have any questions about the weekend or want to try Circling:
What is Circling and Surrendered Leadership (SL)?
Circling, also referred to as Transformational Connection (TC) is about bringing our presence, aliveness, and vulnerability into connection with one or more people or a whole group. Through practice, we develop sensitivity, the skills to communicate our internal states effectively, our needs and boundaries to the world, and the capacity to regulate and lead ourselves in connection with others.
Surrendered Leadership (SL) involves following the immediacy of relational flow that emerges within a group. It is a paradigm of leadership that transcends the presumption that a leader's role is to impose a certain direction or structure. Instead, we focus on developing the capacity to attune to what is already happening and explore it with presence, thereby opening up organic and deep developmental potential. It is a cross-paradigmatic approach that addresses various aspects of human growth potential, using categories from Integral Theory: Cleaning-up, Waking-up, and Growing-up.
The practice is best explored by experiencing it. You do not need to understand what Circling or SL is before you attend, and you are very welcome to ask any questions and ask for support throughout the weekend, as well as before or after it. You are invited to come in contact with a direct knowing, available here and now, for everyone, guided by the emergent nature of reality.
📖More Resources About the Practice
What will happen?
The core practices we will introduce and explore are Circling and Surrendered Leadership, practiced in the lineage of the Transformational Connection organization. To read more about these approaches, look at the section above.
We will introduce a variety of exercises that can support grounding in the practice, getting to know its fundamentals and atmosphere. These exercises will often happen in pairs or small groups. We will learn by doing and create spaces of sense-making and debriefing, while also befriending states of not-knowing.
The good share of the weekend we will likely spend in the form of the practice called Surrendered Leadership, or Flow. This is when we come as a group and explore the emergence of the present moment from the place of surrender. It appears to be a deeply touching, potent, and transformative approach that invites us to embrace polarities and paradoxes, outgrow our own habituated ways of being, bring forth gifts of our hearts and souls, and confront our blind spots.
Program & Location
Location: Eisenbahnstraße 11, 10997 Berlin (Holographic Healing Nest)
Max group size: 20
Dates: 13-15.02.2026
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Friday 19:00-21:30
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Saturday 10:00 - 18:00
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Sunday 10:00 - 18:00
Lunch breaks are 13:30-15:00. Please bring food for yourself, or enjoy nearby restaurants.
Tickets
The ticket price is 175 Euro for an early bird until 31.12, and later 210 Euro for a regular price.
If you wish to join the weekend but cannot afford the price, don't hesitate to contact Mateusz, and let me know about your situation. You can do it by submitting the form without choosing a payment option and describing your situation in the corresponding field.
You can pay by credit card or PayPal after submitting your sign-up form.
Do you have any questions?
If you have any questions about the weekend, or maybe want to practice Circling for 25 minutes, feel welcome to book an intro call.
Facilitators Team
The team
The weekend will join a group of 2-6 experienced circling practitioners who will support our group process with their surrendered leadership. To the team are invited other certified practice leaders, or people who have spent a handful of time in the circling paradigm or other similar approaches.
Mateusz’s Circling passion started in 2019, and since 2022 he has hosted the practice regularly and completed several trainings in Circling facilitation.
He works as a Copenhagen-based somatic therapist and focuses on modalities rooted in touch, breath, presence, and inquiry. He carries a deep curiosity and wonder about the nature of reality, consciousness, and the potential that exists in human awareness, including interpersonal and transpersonal states. His training includes BioDynamic Breathwork, Myofascial Energetic Release bodywork, Compassionate Inquiry by Gabor Maté, Circling, and a background in Internal Family Systems. He is passionate about dancing, the integration of spirituality and contemporary psychology, non-ordinary states of consciousness, and community building.
'' (...) there are some big shifts that have happened in my life in the last couple of weeks, and I think that’s mostly thanks to what I released during the Circling weekend. I felt very connected to everything and everyone afterwards, and like I had accessed some higher state of consciousness. (...) ''
"The rawness of this wave of honesty! And the intensity of it. And the 'being present' with all there is. Wow. I am blown away! And deeply humbled! Such an undemanding state of 'doing'! And yet, it is so lacking in the everyday."
"I am deeply grateful for learning the circling technique at this event. Just two days later, I can already feel it transforming how I interact with others in everyday life."
