The space remained sacred. I knew it had different rules, and did my best to follow them. When I was incorrect, they explained. Use ‘I’ statements. Things about your own beliefs, your models, your feelings. Things you know to be true. Pay attention to your body, and how it is feeling, where things come from, what they are like. Report it.
I’m slightly confused about whether the first (or second) conversation was a circle in the Circling sense.
Sure seems like it was:
I consider both to be continuations of the same Circle. Both definitely counted.