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            • Your Story is Your Brand
            • Racial Justice in Our Lives and Our Work
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            • Gratitude as transformational practice
            • How do we respond to sudden change?
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              • Intuitive Organizational Diagnostic
              • Using Chalk Talk in consulting
            • What does collaboration feel like in consulting practice?
            • Cross Cultural Insights and Reflections - July 2015
            • The Art of Transformational Consulting - June 2015
            • Conversations around equity and justice - May 2015
            • Exploring Asset-Based Community Development - April 2015
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              • Asset-Based Community Development
              • Center for World-Changing Organizations
              • Global Dexterity
              • Mutual Aid Networks
            • How can we become the change we want to see in the world? - February 2015
            • How do we focus on the most important things? Or, "What conversations are we yearning for?" Part II. - January 2015
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            • What conversations are we yearning for? - December 2014
            • Toward a deeper consulting community - November 2014
            • More eye-opening frameworks and models - October 2014 >
              • Articulating Purpose
              • Zentangle
              • Participatory Flowcharting
              • The Turtle Approach to Measurement
              • Intuitive Organizational Diagnosis
              • Problem Abatement Model
              • Hot Action Model
            • Power differentials and how they affect our work - September 2014
            • Be the change: personal qualities of effective consultants - August 2014
            • Toward a Deeper Consulting Community/Focused Conversation Techniques - July 2014
            • Testing
            • More Eye-Opening Models and Frameworks - June 2014
            • Engaging in super-sensitive conversations - from theory to practice - May 2014
            • Toward a Consulting Community - April 2014
            • Eye-opening models and frameworks - March 2014
            • Engaging in super-sensitive conversations - Feb. 2014
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      • The Field of Transformational Change by Becca Krantz
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Please join us for the CORE 
Circle of Transformational Practice!
Gatherings convene
9:30am-11:30am
2nd Friday of the Month
Madison Central Public Library 
201 W. Mifflin Street, Room 302
(see below for specific dates and topics) 

CORE’s Circle of Transformatio​nal Practice (CORE Circle) strengthens community change-making that promotes the wellbeing of all through practices that link personal and social transformation. We welcome all who share an interest in our commitment to deep transformation, radical equity, and enduring resilience. CORE Circle's format and offerings will evolve to meet the needs, aspirations, and interests of diverse communities.

CORE Circle provides opportunities for: 
  • Personal and collective reflection;
  • Building meaningful connections with others; 
  • Honoring and awakening to the diverse skills and strengths in our community;
  • Mind, heart, and/or body-centered work; ​
  • Sharing and trying out new ideas, skills, and practices;
  • Moving towards equitable, respectful mutuality and interdependence.

Upcoming CORE Circle Conversations 9:30am-11:30am, 2nd Fridays of the month
Madison Central Public Library, 201 W Mifflin St


September 8th - Accountable Inspiration: Venus Washington and Jasmine Timmons will share on how to empower the self and be responsible for the life we live by way of being inspired by the world around us and the world we desire. 

October 13th - Making the invisible visible: how visuals support transformational change. Imagine if you could use images to help groups understand complex ideas quickly, see new perspectives, have fun, and be more effective. Find out how! This CORE Circle will introduce you to the benefits of visual practice.   Facilitators: Stephanie Steigerwaldt and Julie Swanson from What's Possible Now? 

​November 10th - Facilitators Mary Hoddy and Mary Kay Reinman

December 8th - TBD
No RSVP required. Newcomers are always welcome!

To learn more about topics covered in our previous Consultants' Circles, go to Gathering Harvests. 
(Includes summaries of shared learning, agendas, and other notes.) 

SUPPORT THE CORE
​CIRCLE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL PRACTICE


Nothing but your presence is required to participate. Nothing. And we ask that those who find value consider making a donation to defray costs. Go to our donation page to make a secure contribution online. 
Contact Julie for more information and how to get involved. 
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Inner and outer transformation: 
The Circle of Transformational Practice is grounded in our belief that we shift the system and culture of social change work by changing how we understand ourselves and relate to one another. Lasting change requires work at multiple levels, including reflective practices that invite deeper awareness of our own habits of heart and mind; letting go and opening to new ways of being; trying, practicing, and learning new behaviors; building relationships and being present to what is emerging through them; and co-creating new structures to sustain the changes.

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Core elements of CORE Circle: Reflection and relationship building are cornerstones of the CORE Circle experience, essential actions themselves that contribute to more effectiveness in other actions. We invite participants to experience and practice reflection and relationship building within CORE Circle, strengthening our individual and collective capacities to engage these skills in other settings as well.  

We use the following touchstones to help define how we relate to each other in CORE Circle, to create the conditions for the best of each person to show up and contribute:  
➢ Be present in the fullness of who you are  
➢ Hold brave/courageous space together 
➢ Listen deeply to self and to others 
➢ Speak with intention and from your own experience
➢ Cultivate curiosity 
➢ Keep confidentiality – the story belongs to the teller, the        lessons belong to us all
➢ Create spaciousness in our being together 
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CORE  explores and cultivates core practices for social transformation
to heal ourselves, our communities, and our world
. www.corechange.us  ​