Turn Insight into Impact - Join a Circle

Issue Area Circles

Looking to deepen your engagement in local social issues alongside a vibrant community of values-driven individuals? Our Circles are designed to help you learn how to approach complex challenges and move towards constructive action while applying a social justice, systemic, and racial justice lens to difficult issues.

Through this program you’ll learn to identify and participate in multiple approaches to take concrete action —both individually and collectively. Most importantly, you’ll be part of building a lasting community of informed, action-oriented advocates for social justice.

How it Works

Each Circle will be comprised of half a dozen members with one or two Circle chairs and will focus on different issues areas including:

  • Climate Change & Justice

  • Housing

  • Economic Inequality

  • Education

Your circle will be the primary group of folks you collaborate, learn, and take action with during the cohort

Sessions

Over the course of 4 months you’ll attend 8 in-person sessions that will be facilitated either by Full Circle staff or your Circle chair using the curriculum and agendas we’ve designed. There will be a few hours of work required between sessions.

Sessions Overview

Sessions 1 - 3: Kickoff with your cohort!

Work with your Circle to identify a problem you want to explore further and begin creating a map of the causes, stakeholders, relationships, and power structures (racism, sexism, etc) that impact it.

Sessions 4 - 6: Learn all about collective action

Collective Action is an action taken together by a group of people working towards a shared goal. Put it into practice with your circle and finally, design a collective action plan focused on your issue area.

Session 7: Present your action

Share your collective action plan with the rest of the cohort for feedback and complete it before the closing session.

Session 8: Celebrate

Recognize all of your hard work and make a plan to stay involved after the 4 months with your cohort wrap-up.

This is a 4-month program and you can expect to spend ~8 hours a month. A typical week in the program would include 1 hour of preparatory work (readings, writing) and 1.5 hours meetings.