Curricula

Supporting youth through challenging times just got easier. Digital stand-alone sessions of All Together Rising are now available. Target the immediate needs of your Circle by purchasing a single facilitator-guided session on the specific forms of adversity your group members may be experiencing: Community Violence, Loss/Grief, Housing Insecurity ...

Presenting One Circle Foundation’s Inaugural Annual Report: Honoring Wisdom! We are excited to share our first annual report, Honoring Wisdom, which encapsulates our most notable achievements in 2023 and our vision for the future. Within this report, you’ll discover our impactful initiatives and accomplishments over the year, and ...

In a diverse and dynamic world, facilitators are encouraged to adapt certain aspects of One Circle Foundation curricula to meet the needs of a wide range of participants. While always using the 6 or 7 steps to maintain the fidelity of the model you are using, there are adjustments that can be made to the content to meet the needs of the youth you’re working with... Read More ...

Maintaining healthy friendships can sometimes be challenging due to exclusion, intolerance, and feuding. One Circle Foundation’s Friendship Activity Guide is a comprehensive curriculum that addresses ... Read More ...

September 15th – October 15th is National Hispanic Heritage Month, when Americans celebrate the “histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America.” One Circle Foundation is dedicated to ensuring equal access to Circles for all youth, including Latine youth, who often face higher than normal rates of depression, alcohol and drug abuse according to the American Addiction Center. To create a safe and supportive environment for these young individuals, we... Read More. ...

Supporting LGBTQ+ youth is so important with the rates of suicidal ideation increasing. Guide the youth in your life through the following conversation so they have a chance to identify their role models and values. Let’s help empower youth on their journey of self-discovery. ...

“If we are working toward equity by making a protected space in our groups for the experience of queer kids, we also need to ask ourselves if we are allowing these same queer kids to come with their racial identity, their socioeconomic status, their ability status, their gender identity, their religious affiliation, and everything else that makes them who they are”. ...

We’ve released our first digital activity guide, Mitigating Gender and Racial Bias: Intersectionality and Allyship. You can now purchase this curriculum in digital form and access it with ease from your phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop. Even better, you can share it with up to 5 colleagues! ...

I went through Girls Circle Facilitator Training in 2017, and had the privilege of being trained by the wonderful Victoria Mahand. I remember going up to her after the training and asking her, “How do I do, what you do?” I was referring to her charismatic, inclusive, effective facilitation style. What she did next was model what a facilitator does. She didn’t give advice, she told me, “Danielle, go out and do.” So, that’s what I did for 5 years. I ran circles and grew our program within our community. However, I struggled those first few years with ...

16 years ago I was intimidated, excited, nervous, and honored to be given the opportunity to facilitate my first Girls Circle with eight 16-17-year-old girls, all of whom were on probation. They were required to attend as a condition of their probation and we met in a classroom on their high school campus right after school each Wednesday. Going into that first session, I did all of the extra things that I could think of ...