What is The Circle Project?

We provide innovative learning experiences in communities and organizations by creating surprise, energy, depth, and relationship around difficult issues like diversity and inclusive leadership. We do so using story, theatre and experiential processes, forming creative and safe spaces where people don't have to be clever, but are free to truly learn and explore.

We help individuals in organizations deepen their working relationships across difference, transforming how they work together in the process and enhancing their capacity for innovation. Our work is more oriented toward learning (a process that leaves us  changed) than toward problem-solving (a process focused on changing our surroundings) because we believe that changing our surroundings can only come after we ourselves are changed in some way.

The Circle Project has several key objectives:

• To help people build inclusive  organizations that connect, collaborate, and create
• To access group wisdom for inspired results
• To provide a solid grounding in diversity  and inclusion issues and how they impact individuals and organizations
• To help people have open and honest dialogue about things that matter
• To show how culture affects all of us, all the time, and how it affects our work
• To involve people in creating  an inclusive environment, not just hearing about it

Our work is centered on our deep understanding and twenty years of experience with a broad array of diversity dimensions such as race, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, geographical location, tenure, management status, and title or rank, among others. We pay particular attention to the Self and Other, privilege, status and rankism, dominant culture, and the impact of culture and culture change.

 

Comments

[Patricia Ryan Madson]

What an honor to be featured on your booklist. Your mission is an important one, and I'm glad to be part of your work.
Warm thanks,
Patricia Ryan Madson
Improv Wisdom