Meeting Start – Welcome

[Up to 5 min]

[1 ring of the bell]

• Welcoming everyone (free use of tea, get comfortable in your seat, mute your phone…)
• About MindfulCircles

We are a community-led mindfulness group. We meet here every week to dedicate an hour of our busy calendars for Meditation, authentic connections and personal growth. Feel free to join us anytime you find yourself free on a Tuesday evening at 7pm. Also your co-founders, best friends or favourite colleagues 😉 are welcome but please ask them to signup online before joining their first meeting.

• Meeting format (90 minutes total consisting of: Silent meditation, book  summary read, sharing section and main guided meditation)

Quick Intro Round

[Up to 5 min]
We start each meeting with a short introduction round.

Please share with us your name and if you like to what is the mission of the company you are working at? If you are working on a new idea or considering a career change, you can share that too.

Anti-Discrimination and Confidentiality commitment

[Up to 5 min]

• Ask someone to read. Link here.

Welcome Silent Meditation

[Up to 7 min]

• Silent meditation (how long)
• Short Meditation preamble about silence meditation

I will time 5 minutes, and I would kindly ask you to sit still and observe what feelings and thoughts might arise in you.

Meditation might bring powerful emotions. Please be gentle to yourself, it is always ok to take care of yourself during the meditation. If you feel uncomfortable at any moment, you can try taking a deep breath, you can put your hand on your heart, you can shift or change your position or you can quietly leave the room and join us back after the meditation.

I will start the meditation with three rings of the bell and end it with three rings of the bell.

Book of the Week Summary Read

[Up to 10 min]

• Ask someone (or the group) to read the pre-prepared summary. Link here
• Ask one Ice-Breaker question to be answered in a round that relates to the topic of the book (e.g. What is spirituality for you?). The question should invite people to reflect internally in an intimate way. More Examples.

[ask the question of your choice, and take a few seconds of silence for reflection]

• Make sure to bring to their attention the time:
  • Optionally you could use a timer app to track depending of number of attendees and your preferences

Anyone could start and then we go clockwise. Please keep your share to maximum one minute, I will keep track of the time and notify you if you ran out of time.

Weekly Reflection Questions:

[Up to 15 min]

I would like to ask now quick rating questions for us all as group reflecting on our past and upcoming week, where you can use your hand to indicate the answer.

• The first question,

Reflecting on your past seven days, think meetings, deadlines, achievements, events, personal-happenings..etc, and by showing the hand, on a scale from 1 to 5, how eventful for you was the last week?

[Wait a few seconds]

Second question,

• on a scale from 1 to 5, how satisfied you are with the way you handled last week?

  [Wait a few seconds]

  • Anyone would like to share about the happenings of the past week? We don't need to go on a clockwise anymore but please be mindful of the time. What would you share about your last week?

[depending on time and number of attendees]

• Ok now in regards to the upcoming 7 days, on a scale from 1 to 5, how eventful the week will be for you?

  • Anyone would like to share about their upcoming week?

• [if time allows]

  • Anyone would like to ask the circle a question about a challenge they are facing or a new experience they will be facing soon?

  • Anyone would like to comment on the shares?

• Any tool, app, website, book, event or podcast that has been especially helpful for you lately?

Thank you and Welcome everyone.

Main Guided Meditation – Preamble

• 5 min break (renew, adjust position, stretch, get pillow as we prepare for meditation)

[1 ring of the bell] [5 min break] [1 ring of the bell]

• Intro about the meditation (title and length)
• Invite them to be relaxed and release expectations

[3 rings of the bell ]

[Guided Meditation]

[3 rings of the bell ]

Meeting Closing

• Thanking everyone
• Dana (payments)

Dana in Sanskrit means generosity. If you have benefited from our meeting today we kindly ask you to pay what you can today in the following jar. The fund is used for donations as well as for administrative costs and beverage costs. MindfulCircles is a community-led, non-profit organisation and you all are welcome to be an active part of our community. If you are not part of our group chats, talk to the team members (please raise your hands) to be added after the meeting ends.

• • Next week’s book survey (any wishes?)
  • cleaning the room

Also please let's keep the room they we find it. Cups in the kitchen, cushions and blankets are returned to where they were. And let's continue any remaining conversation outside the temple.

• Meeting dedication

We dedicate the time of our meeting to a better world filled with compassion, loving kindness, equanimity and appreciative joy. Inwards and outwards.

Have a nice evening everyone!

[bell rings]