Learning more about circle:
Resources on circle formats, competencies, and skills

Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture

By Christina Baldwin
A pioneering classic. Christina Baldwin's work offers circle as a means for social change. Offering simple guidelines, including structure and reflection as a central components, this work is a great source for those considering starting a circle.
Visit http://www.peerspirit.com

The Millionth Circle

By Jean Shinoda Bolen
Provides both a guiding metaphor as well as simple, effective guidelines to create circles.
Visit http://www.millionthcircle.org

The Presence of the Circle Being:
Conversation with the Circle of Seven

Collective Wisdom Initiative
Visit http://www.collectivewisdominitiative.org/papers/circleof7_interv.htm

Wisdom Circles:
A Guide to Self-Discovery and Community Building

By Charles Garfield, Cindy Spring and Sedonia Cahill
A guide to a particular form of circle, using questions/inquiry and structure.
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The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter

By Brown, J. and D. Isaacs
A rich resource using the café process to create social change though conversations that matter.
Visit http://theworldcafe.com

Womenprints:

Ann Smith (editor), Lucy Germany, Sister Helen Marie, Nancy Grandfield
About the circle model as the model for "power with" rather than"power over," and the UN Fourth World Conference on Women.
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Women Leading Change:
A Resource for Women's Leadership Journey

A publication of Women's Leadership Circles providing a wealth of information on women's leadership, organizations and circles.
Visit http://www.w-l-c.org/

Offerings Magazine

Offerings is a co-creative field for evolving women, and the men who love, support and partner with them. ¾It provides a space, a place, a time to discover and celebrate the new and emerging story of Woman.
Visit http://offeringspublications.com

OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

The Fetzer Institute
http://www.fetzer.org/

Spheres Women's Circles
http://www.sphereswomenscircles.com/

The Institute of Noetic Sciences
http://www.noetic.org/

Joan Kenley/Circles of Value
http://www.joankenley.com/circles.htm

Glenna Gerard
http://www.glennagerard.net

The National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation
http://thataway.org/

BOOKS ON DIALOGUE

Dialogue: Rediscovering the Transforming Power of Conversation

By Glenna Gerard
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Dialogue at Work: Skills for Leveraging Collective Understanding

By Glenna Gerard and Linda Ellinor
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Wholeness and the Implicate Order

By David Bohm
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Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together

By William Isaacs
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Mindshift: Strategic Dialogue for Breakthrough Thinking

By Bennett, S. and J. Brown (1995). In Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace. S. Chawla and J. Renesch eds. Portland, Oregon, Productivity Press.
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