Practice Circle 3: Failures and Setbacks

A candid and honest conversation on failures & setback, featuring guest speaker Warren Humphries, his story of hard-won resilience.

What Is Practice Circle?

Practice Circle is a guided sharing space where we explore the real, unpolished parts of being human, together.

Each session centres on a theme that matters but rarely gets spoken about openly. Through facilitated conversation, personal reflection and the warmth of a like-minded community, we create a space where vulnerability is welcomed, and growth becomes possible.

No expertise required. No perfect stories needed. Just you, showing up honestly.

Topic of the Month: Failures and Setbacks

We are often taught to celebrate success and push through failure as quickly as possible. But what happens when failure does not pass quickly? When a setback reshapes your identity, your relationships, your sense of what is possible?

This session invites you to sit with those questions, not to find easy answers, but to explore them with honesty and compassion, alongside others who understand.

Meet Our Guest Speaker: Warren Sheldon Humphries

Warren's story is not one of smooth reinvention. It is one of real loss, quiet survival, and hard-won resilience.

At 47, Warren began noticing changes in his body: weakness, an unsteady gait, a grip that was slowly giving way. For years, his condition went undiagnosed, leaving him searching for answers while his world shifted around him. In 2020, he was finally diagnosed with Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, a rare hereditary neurological disorder that causes progressive muscle weakness and loss of sensation.

Warren lost his job, his marriage, and nearly his life — so what made him decide to become someone who inspires others and shows them the way?