Forum FAQ 

Forum is an embodied, lived circle—a practice that connects the person speaking to the group listening. It's a structured relational practice where what happens between the presenter and the circle is the work.

The method comes from Zegg Forum, developed in Germany inside a long-standing intentional community that discovered something most organizations already know and rarely name: the interpersonal gets in the way of everything else. Forum was built to address exactly that. What I bring to it is my own—the way I enter a group, read what's underneath, and hold the exchange that needs to happen.

Before we ever sit in a circle, I do my homework. I speak with whoever is bringing me in, and where possible, with others who see the situation differently. I ask questions. I listen for what isn't being said as much as what is. Sometimes I send a short questionnaire to participants in advance.

When we meet, we sit in a circle. Someone speaks—that person is the presenter. Everyone else witnesses. My job as facilitator is to hold the connection between the two: to build it, expand it, and keep everyone's attention oriented toward what the presenter is actually saying, feeling, and showing. It's lived and embodied. You will not be able to perform for very long inside of it. That's the point.

Most first circles begin with surface-level observations and short shares, enough to get a feel for what it is to be inside the circle before anything else.

I'm not a therapist and Forum has its own goals.

What I'm working toward in every circle is movement first—something shifts that couldn't shift before we sat down together. From there, completion becomes possible: the thing that needed to be acknowledged gets acknowledged. When the circle is really working, repair happens—a genuine change in what's possible between people.

I don't promise any of these outcomes. I work toward all of them.

Most people walking into my circles have never done anything like this.

I ask for presence. A willingness to be in the room, to witness others, and to try, even briefly. Everything inside the circle is consent-based. You choose to speak. You choose to receive feedback. You choose how far in you go.

Forum can live inside a workshop. Forum can be the heart of a retreat. The format is flexible, what stays constant is the practice itself.

I come in as a complete outsider with no stake in your internal dynamics and no history with your people. What we work with is what you bring—the tension, the pattern, the thing nobody's been able to say out loud yet. That material only exists in that room, with those people, on that day.

Conflict is often exactly what we're there for.

When something difficult surfaces, that's the circle doing what it's supposed to do. Getting triggered is a possibility. Working through the trigger, in the presence of the group, is part of the process. It happening in a held, witnessed space is what makes it land differently than every conversation that's already been had.

My role is to hold the container steady while that moves.

If your group has the people and something still isn't moving — this is probably worth a conversation.

It works for groups just forming and for groups that have been together for years. It works when the problem is obvious and when nobody can quite name what's wrong. The existing dynamics, including the difficult ones, are the material.

Reach out and tell me about your group. I'll tell you honestly whether this is the right fit.