Are you in a COMFORT TRAP?
Aug 11, 2019
4 minutes
Text ©The Sunday Times
Would you choose to spend your hard-earned spare time sitting in a circle with a group of strangers gathered to tell you exactly what they think of you? It might be as innocuous as, “Actually, you’ve got a bit of a resting bitch face” or take the form of a round of “I don’t like you” and “I don’t like you, either”. This is ‘circling’, in which people share their honest perceptions of each other – and the franker, the better.
‘CIRCLING’ CREATES CONNECTION AND EXPANDS PEOPLE’S CAPACITY TO TOLERATE MORE.
Why on earth would you endure that, you may well ask. After all, isn’t this the age of self-care, and if you’d
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