The Open Circle Method: A Weekend of Deep Shadow Work

Vancouver Circling is excited to welcome Josh Putnam to Vancouver for a deeply transformative weekend of emotional honesty and personal truth through deep Shadow Work.

What This Weekend Is About

• Stripping away learned personas and approaching your core, lived truth
• Confronting old narratives, emotional blocks, and limiting beliefs
• Being supported and witnessed in a safe, intentional group setting
• Developing a deeper sense of purpose, courage, and personal accountability
• Rediscovering your humanity beneath trauma, shame, fear, and grief

Who This Is For

• Individuals ready for honest self-exploration
• Anyone feeling stuck, disconnected, or weighed down by old emotional patterns
• People seeking meaningful growth within a supportive community
• Those open to vulnerability, curiosity, and deep relational work

What the Weekend Involves

• Guided group processes and facilitated emotional exploration
• Structured sharing that emphasizes safety, non-violence, and clarity of intention
• Practices that encourage presence, self-inquiry, and genuine connection
• Opportunities to be witnessed, supported, and held in your authentic expression

Note: Lunch is included on Saturday and Sunday

The Open Circle Method

The Open Circle Method is a personal and transformative approach that involves aspects of emotional work through shared experience. This is an unmaking methodology that emphasizes the stripping away of pretenses and defenses. It is an invitation to approach the false persona and speak to the core truth that lives in the heart of every human being.

We recognize that trauma, shame, and narratives about past actions tend to falsely inform our lives in ways that often leave us feeling stuck and in the depths of despair. The Open Circle Method is a call to challenge our false assumptions about who and what we are in a way that allows for us to be supported and witnessed by others in a group setting.

This work isn’t simply about emotional venting, this approach encourages participants to engage with curiosity, courage, rigorous self-examination, and accountability to who they have been, and who they are now. Open Circles are designed to create a safe, structured container where each participant can process their deep-seated trauma, anger, pain, grief, and fear in a non-violent and emotionally open way.

We are dedicated to helping you rediscover your humanity, to find a fresh sense of purpose, and to commit fully to your life. You are invited to enter the Open Circle with the sacred intention to engage in radical vulnerability and honesty.

The Open Circle is never broken because it is always open.

Facilitator

Josh Putnam

Josh Putnam is a spiritual teacher specializing as a Non-Dual Awakening Facilitator, utilizing many modalities and guiding individuals to realize their true nature beyond the sense of a separate self.

His unique background includes over 25 years as a teacher, which developed his skills in direct, clear, personalized guidance and communication.

Josh facilitates retreats and group shadow work events and has held over 3000 one-on-one sessions. Following a profound personal awakening, he dedicated himself to a path of realization, focusing on clear, authentic pointing and experiential inquiry.

His teachings emphasize moving beyond the story of trauma and conditioned narratives to a state of profound awareness and acceptance, often integrating a myriad of shadow work approaches.

Josh actively shares his guidance through his website, SoAwake.org, and the YouTube channel @So-Awake, and is known for collaborating with other non-dual teachers like Angelo Dilullo, and Lisa Cairns.

Presented By

Vancouver Circling

Vancouver Circling is a community dedicated to the practice of Circling — a form of relational meditation where people come together to explore their authentic, present-moment experience. We create warm, grounded spaces where individuals can show up honestly, be deeply seen, and connect through curiosity and shared presence. Through this practice, members strengthen their self-awareness, grow their capacity to express themselves, and build meaningful, nourishing relationships. It’s a place to slow down, listen closely, and experience connection in a way that feels real and alive.

www.vancouvercircling.com