Dear AGLN Fellows,
I’m excited to join you in seminars at the Action Forum this year on Circl.es which I created after going through my own fellowship experience (HCF-14). At Circl.es, we spread fellowship-level connection and transformative dialogue in a virtual format. We start with the question: Why aren’t more people learning in circles instead of rows? Before COVID, we needed ways to connect teams that generated psychological safety, accountability, connection, inclusion, well-being, idea-flow, good conflict, agency, support, teamwork, engagement. Now, what many thought of as a “someday need” is a today one, as we have to operate exclusively online.
At Action Forum, you’ll experience our video space, but not our backstage: the company, process and platform that makes it easy to design, launch and manage thousands of circles. We’re finding new applications every day: training managers, moving TEDsters from inspiration to action, starting UPenn’s remote students on the right foot in restorative justice circles, fostering connection when there’s no campus at Harvard Business School, helping newly remote companies establish inclusive cultures, convening dozens of YPO forums to help each other survive the Pandemic. We are looking for partners who want to find ways to help their community or organization connect and grow. If you like Circl.es here, let’s talk about how you can bring it home with you.
The Aspen curriculum inspired me, my own fellows and moderators pushed me, and ultimately, invested to make our company happen. Now, the Institute has become a partner. I’m very grateful.
-Dan Hoffman
Chief Executive Officer, Circles Learning Labs, Inc.
Henry Crown Fellowship Program
2014 Bones & Elephants Class
Great platform and experience. You may take over the virtual gathering space. How do I sign up for circles in the K-12 space?
Jack Johnson Pannell
Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys
Hi, Dan. I have enjoyed Circl.es even more today than Sunday. We had opportunities with sound quality initially but with headsets for everyone and apparently stronger signals today it was perfect.
I would really like to try Circl.es with my YPO forum and then recommend to YPO International. Please let me know who I should contact on your staff. I think this could be great tool for not just forum but work groups that are international in nature. Thank you.
Christine Crawford