What we resource.

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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What do we do instead? The field of practices is the long answer: seven families, from safety planning through accompaniment, affinity, dialogue, and integration to visionary work, with the practices in each named plainly. It's the map keepers draw on and the map communities can use to see what's possible.

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We Begin is a curriculum for communities learning to respond to harm without punishment, organized around the seven practice families. It's being expanded into print, web, and presentation materials for listening circles, learning spaces, and keeper training.

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Find the word for how you feel, and see what you might need. A simple, free tool built on the work of Marshall B. Rosenberg and the Center for Nonviolent Communication, made for the moments in and around circles when language is hard to reach. No account, no tracking, nothing sold.

Open feelingsandneeds.org→

Circle keepers are not neutral facilitators. They are grounded, attuned, and in ongoing relationship with the people and communities they serve, and that takes training, supervision, and company. The Fund offers mentorship and community among keepers across the South and beyond, and welcomes potential keepers: survivors, healers, organizers, facilitators, clinicians, and community members with lived experience and deep care.

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What we're learning, what stays unresolved, what we're asking of each other. By email, free, whenever there's something worth saying.

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