Circles can vary extremely widely based on who’s in them and how skilled the facilitators are, so it’s not surprising that people have both widely varying experiences and widely varying senses of the possible range of experiences. (Again, the analogy to sex is helpful here.) I want to generally caution everyone in this discussion, both promoters and detractors, to avoid updating too strongly based only on their own circles.
I can repeat from my other comment that circling has been extremely helpful for me personally and also that this is probably in large part because I’ve gotten to work with unusually skilled facilitators. I’m not surprised to hear that other people have very different and neutral or even much more negative experiences. A facilitator who’s Goodharting on the wrong thing can be very bad, especially if no one else in the circle is experienced enough to notice and call them out on it.
Circles can vary extremely widely based on who’s in them and how skilled the facilitators are, so it’s not surprising that people have both widely varying experiences and widely varying senses of the possible range of experiences. (Again, the analogy to sex is helpful here.) I want to generally caution everyone in this discussion, both promoters and detractors, to avoid updating too strongly based only on their own circles.
I can repeat from my other comment that circling has been extremely helpful for me personally and also that this is probably in large part because I’ve gotten to work with unusually skilled facilitators. I’m not surprised to hear that other people have very different and neutral or even much more negative experiences. A facilitator who’s Goodharting on the wrong thing can be very bad, especially if no one else in the circle is experienced enough to notice and call them out on it.