re: "As best you can, try not to worry about the other participants' experience, when it is your turn to be the focus of the circle...." I think it's pretty important to hit this point strongly in the initial context setting part, ala "Then (even if everyone present has already been in a Hamming circle before!) it helps to have someone explicitly set context, and to remind the group".
Even though you had the paragraph referenced above and the paragraph with "The idea is that, for the duration of the circle, instead of having ac... (read more)
This is a great write-up!
re: "As best you can, try not to worry about the other participants' experience, when it is your turn to be the focus of the circle...."
I think it's pretty important to hit this point strongly in the initial context setting part, ala "Then (even if everyone present has already been in a Hamming circle before!) it helps to have someone explicitly set context, and to remind the group".
Even though you had the paragraph referenced above and the paragraph with "The idea is that, for the duration of the circle, instead of having ac... (read more)