At Kettering Church we find an increasing number of people are becoming interested in working more directly on their spiritual development. As a Spiritualist church, we wish to encourage our Circle students to start their journey along a pathway of discovery in communicating with the spirit world, finding and developing their talents. We teach the difference in our Circles between spirit communication and psychic links. In our 4 Circles, we sometimes use psychic exercises to help the student recognise the different types of link. A pure psychic will link in with a person's energies / aura and read at this level, sometimes able to read along the time-line of a person's life to access events (or possible eventualities) in the future. A spiritual medium will link to a communicator in spirit and then give information regarding the spirit communicator via clairvoyance (clear seeing), clairaudience (clear hearing) and clairsentience (clear feeling / sensing). A medium will often use a combination of all three senses to pick up information but it can be dependent upon the methods the communicator uses to get their message across as well as how strongly developed a medium is in a particular sense. It is the spirit communicator that provides the information about themselves, their lives and the life of the recipient of the message.

Our Circles are 'closed', which means that in order to join one you have to be a member of the church. Acceptance into membership is fully explained on our 'Membership' page but relies upon your regular attendance at the church over a period of time. Once you have become a member, after a period of approximately 3 months (or at the discretion of the Committee), you have the opportunity to fill in a Circle Application Form. It may be that you will have to wait a period of time to, enter a Circle as we often have a waiting list, but we try to place you as soon as possible.

Our Circles cover beginners level, personal development level and rostrum level. The beginner's Circle works at a gentle pace, concentrating on the ability to work safely and to blend with each other and spirit.

There are two personal development circles, the function of which are to provide an opportunity for students who do not necessary wish to work rostrum to still further their spiritual development. However, if a student decides they wish to progress in the direction of serving churches and they are at a level that is appropiate, the opportunity to move into the rostrum circle is available.

The rostrum level circle concentrates on further developing the professional mediumship skills of the students with prayers, philosophy and mediumship to a standard where they can go out and work in other churches. There are opportunities for students who reach the required level to go out with working mediums. Our aim is to produce the highest quality mediums possible.

Placement of students is at the discretion of the circle leaders. Circles run on Wednesday and Thursdays on alternate weeks and attendance costs £3 per session.