How to become one.

Keeping a circle is skilled work, and lonely work if nobody is holding the keeper. The Fund offers mentorship and community among keepers doing this work across the southeastern United States and beyond: regular supervision, a place to bring the hard sessions, and training in the practices our circles use.

Keepers may be survivors, healers, organizers, facilitators, clinicians, or community members with lived experience and deep care. As circles close, new keepers are trained from among the people who sat in them.

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Most circle keeping in this country is unpaid or underpaid: held after work, between shifts, on top of everything else. Keeper stipends are direct payments to circle keepers doing otherwise un- or underfunded work, so the people holding circles can afford to keep holding them.

This is the Fund's first funding priority. Stipends will be modest, transparent, and tied to real circles being held, with the emotional and logistical labor of keeping counted as work.

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Most keepers begin as participants. The path runs through a full circle as a member, a conversation about what you carry and why you want to hold it, co-keeping alongside an experienced keeper, and then a circle of your own with supervision behind you. There is no application form; there is a conversation.