What do we do with sexual harm, if we don’t turn to police, prisons, or forced silence?
We sit down together.The Fund holds circles that respond to sexual harm with care instead of punishment, and resources the practice of the people who keep them.
We hold circles, explain the practices behind them, gather what's worth reading, and resource the people who keep them.
Circles
Participant-led, community-held, free, always. The list grows as communities ask for them.
- In Search of Peace healing circlesCentral Virginia & onlineCommunity-rooted circles for those who have experienced harm, those who have caused it, support people, and community members. Free, always.
- Tenderfeet CirclesComing soonPeer-led healing circles for people who were sexually abused as children in the Boy Scouts, and for the people who love them. Modeled on Hidden Water.
- Community DialoguesAcross the Southeast & beyondLarger inquiry circles that ask the hardest question out loud, and connect the practitioners and communities already answering it.
Practice
For anyone: participants, keepers, communities, funders. The same practices, read from different seats.
- The field of practicesSeven familiesWhat we do instead, named plainly: safety planning, boundaries and needs, accompaniment, affinity, dialogue, integration, visionary work.
- What it takesIn progressWhat do we need to offer a community response to sexual harm that centers healing? The conditions, and the communities that have met them.
- We BeginCurriculum · in developmentA community justice curriculum organized around the seven practice families, for print, web, and the room.
- Feelings & Needsfeelingsandneeds.orgFind the word for how you feel, and see what you might need. A free tool built on the work of Marshall B. Rosenberg.
Library
Other people's work, and our own letters. Searchable, free, growing.
- Reading room500+ entriesBooks, articles, reports, toolkits, zines, films, and organizations on community responses to sexual harm, searchable by shelf, type, and topic.
- A few places to beginFive organizationsHidden Water, Hollow Water, the CHAT Project, Community Justice Initiatives, the Ahimsa Collective.
- LettersFrom the FundOpen letters from inside the work: what we're learning, what stays unresolved, what we're asking of each other.
Keepers
The people who hold circles, and what it takes to pay, train, and keep company with them.
- Training & mentorshipOngoingTraining, supervision, and company for the people holding this work across the southeastern United States and beyond.
- Keeper stipendsIn developmentDirect stipends to circle keepers doing otherwise un- or underfunded work, so the people holding circles can afford to keep holding them.
- Becoming a keeperStart a conversationKeepers share the lived experience of the circle they keep. If you feel called to hold this kind of space, let's talk.
A circle is a social technology of listening.
A place where questions can breathe, stories can be honored, histories held, and new growth can emerge. Circles take three shapes.
Parallel
Sometimes circles are only for survivors, or only for those who've caused harm, or only for loved ones. Separate rooms, the same questions.
Overlapping
When readiness, safety, and relationship allow, circles overlap — and people who were kept apart by harm sit in the same room.
Held
Every circle is shaped by the people in it and held by a keeper: not a neutral facilitator, but someone grounded, attuned, and in relationship.
Where this goes
A world in which communities respond to sexual harm through collective care, not punishment. Where no one is discarded, and accountability is a relational process, not a legal destination.
Eleven commitments.
Letters
Open letters from inside the work: what we're learning, what stays unresolved, what we're asking of each other. By email, free, whenever there's something worth saying.
Support
We are building something slow, brave, and essential. Circles don't run on goodwill alone.
Every circle is free to join. Your support is what makes that true: keeper stipends, interpretation, transportation, child care, the slow work of seeding circles where no other community-based option exists.
The Fund is held by Wilfred Henry, a circle keeper and community justice practitioner in Central Virginia, with a growing network of co-keepers, collaborators, and advisors across the southeastern United States and beyond.