CIRCLE OFFERS YOU OPPORTUNITIES TO . . .
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Gather trusted people discussing what matters most to you
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Develop your leadership potential
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Take risks with support
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Create abundance by expressing appreciation for self and others.
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Cultivate love instead of fear, telling each other what we need to hear.
CircleCulture: Tools for Cooperative Work
A 12-Week Guide to Building Connection, Equality, and Cooperative Power
This book is a step-by-step, 12-week practical walkthrough for launching and sustaining a successful circle. Designed by senior facilitators and clinical psychologists with four decades of experience, it moves you beyond theory by providing a clear weekly roadmap, actionable communication tools, and proven methods for resolving conflict and sharing leadership.
Whether you are starting a local community group, an organizational team, or a personal support circle, this guide provides the exact framework needed to navigate your 12-week journey from isolation to purpose-driven connection.
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Drawing on the authors’ 40 years of experience as senior facilitators, clinical psychologists, and originators of CircleCulture Tools for Cooperative Work, this guide presents detailed instructions for getting started, building communication skills, and solving conflicts.
We invite you to journey from loneliness to compassionate connection and purpose. CircleCulture nurtures the genuine needs and purposes of the whole group, entrusting participants to dialogue about what matters most. As such, CircleCulture is a catalyst for change and democracy.
CircleCulture’s guide to starting your circle is an invitation to confidently start your own safe circle. The tools are in your own hands.
Personal Growth
Understand your stage of development, identify your strengths and gifts, and clarify your chosen direction.
Teaching & Learning
Express your gifts, wisdom and respectful feedback; learn from others’ life experiences; hear how your behavior impacts others, to become your best self.
Community Action
Circle as a means for community gathering for action, an organizing tool where everyone is listened to and contributes to solutions for the greater good.
A deeply human capacity for cooperation naturally emerges as people practice listening without judgment and speaking truth without fear.
CircleCulture tools provide a framework — a common language and practical techniques for cooperative work — to get you started and support you along the way as you build a circle that accomplishes its purpose and, at the same time, consistently works for everyone.
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CircleWorkshop –
2hr Zoom
CircleExperience –
8 week participation
Leader Training-
6 week sponsorship
Consultation –
Group or Organization
Supportive
Materials
Book –
The guide for facilitators of circles: CircleCulture: Tools for Cooperative Work. Foreword by Jean Houston, PhD.
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PocketGuide –
Handheld guide for all participants practicing CircleCulture
Supportive Documents –
Scribes, Agreements, Tools
Staying Connected
Connect with and learn more about the Author and CircleCulture cultivator, Lauren Oliver, PhD on LinkedIn.
Staying Connected to Circle Stories and Tips, Community Health, Trauma and Healing World Worries and Relief in a Blog by Dr. Lauren Oliver.
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Dr. Lauren Oliver and the Circle Culture on Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube
“Each person’s voice is acknowledged. We each bring our energy and truth, and witness others. The whole circle – greater than the sum of its members – gains a unique power to enhance collective well-being.”
—Nicolette Cautero, Circle Facilitator
“Lauren Oliver has a particular talent for intuiting the spark of what can be appreciated in each group member, thereby modeling a crucial and underused form of ‘glue’ for group cohesion.”
—Karen Lawson
“CircleCulture inspires us, answers our questions, evokes new possibilities, and provides pathways and principles toward fulfilling some of today’s most poignant needs: for companionship, connection, and abiding friendship.”
—Jean Houston, PhD