The Change Circle survey has closed, but...
...you can still read about the plans for Change Circle below, visit the blog for updates, and send me your comments there.
Welcome to the kitchen
You might remember that back in April, I promised I'd be consulting with you a lot on future offerings from Clarity. No more springing products on you fully-baked from some secret kitchen round the back of the business. So the surveys I've been running, like the one for Change Circle, come from somewhere in or around Clarity's kitchen. This one helped to create a recipe for...
Change Circle
- a budget-priced monthly membership for people who want to deepen and strengthen their connection with the Yijing.
Basic nutrition
People want to consult with the Yijing and come away with a clear understanding of its response. Once you have that clear understanding, you can start to use it to make changes and live better. The thing is - and this is something I've become more and more convinced of over the years - that kind of clarity doesn't tend to happen in a vacuum. It's more likely to emerge from a sustained relationship with Yi.
Though I hadn't realised it, I've been working on this basis since I first started offering readings some time in the last millennium, and building on it when I created the 'I Ching mentoring' service. The whole idea of these is to let people use my experience and relationship with Yi as a basis to develop their own - and that turns out to work very well :) .
With Change Circle, we're creating a community resource that offers the same kind of support for its members. Instead of relying on a single diviner, this will rest on the secure basis of a whole, interconnected community of diviners, with all their gathered skills, insight and experience. It'll be like a smaller, warmer room at the heart of the current I Ching Community, where people can settle in for longer conversations and steady mutual support. And because I won't be the only one providing that support, this can cost a very tiny fraction of the price for mentoring. Which is nice.
Core ingredients
The bedrock of Change Circle is - of course - the circle: the community itself. The first thing the new service needs to do is provide robust, easy-to-use ways for that community to work. I started out with two core ingredients in mind:
- a 'Reading Circle' in a private forum
- a Wiki
The final recipe?
It turns out that the survey respondents are drawn to the same basic ingredients I am: the Reading Circle forum and above all the WikiWing. But they're also particularly keen to have a 'room' (a virtual one) for live meetings, and personal journals. So those will be included, too. You can read more about the survey results here, and let me know what would be of the greatest practical use in helping you create and deepen a robust, dependable relationship with Yi.
This is going to be a feast... there is so much we can do with this, building connections, sharing information and insights, exploring in-depth - I'm really looking forward to getting underway. Technology permitting (!), the doors will open by the end of July. Provided you're signed up to receive Friends' Notes (which you can do on the subscriptions page), you'll be one of the first to know.