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 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 three Development Circles are 'closed', which means that in order to join one you have to become a member of the church as fully explained on our 'Membership' page, which mainly relies upon your regular attendance at the church over a period of time. Once a member and 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 Development Circle as we often have a waiting list, but we try to place you as soon as possible. For those uncertain of whether or not they want to join a Development Circle or wanting more information before making a decision, we have a monthly "Awareness Circle" that does not require full church membership to attend.

Our circles start with a beginners level circle, used to assess ability and identify in which direction people would like to develop their gift, and two development circles focusing on personal development through to rostrum level for those who want to become mediums. The beginner's circle works at a gentle pace, concentrating on the ability to work safely and to blend with each other and with spirit.

The development circles give those who may not wish to develop rostrum mediumship the opportunity to further their spiritual development as far as possible, working alongside those who are working toward an appropriate level of development to serve churches as a medium.

For those students who wish to concentrate on developing professional mediumship skills, the training focuses on developing their 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 and agreement of the circle leaders. Our closed circles are held on alternate Wednesdays and Thursdays. The open "awareness circle" is held on the first Tuesday of each month. Attendance for all circles costs £3 per session.

Kettering Church prides itself on its training in all aspects of Spiritualism and whilst we realise that not every student will become a working medium, we teach all students to approach their work with spirit with sincerity and professionalism. Our Circle members become very supportive of each other and whilst we do make sure everyone works hard, Circles are friendly and uplifting gatherings.

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