Build your Circle with the relational tools here.

Cultivating the relational and group management skills to successfully run a Beloved Community Circle takes work. Below, find a very non-exhaustive list of books, articles, and videos that help with building strong relationships and communities.

Please find here tools and articles to help you build your Circle.

1. FVN Handbook. The Fierce Vulnerability Network

2. Unbroken Wholeness: Six Pathways to the Beloved Community. John Bell

3. Effective Group Process. John Bell

4. Interaction Institute. Levels of Decision-Making, graphic

5. DARCI Decision-Making Model

6. Introduction to Sociocracy

7. Rationale for the Beloved Community Circles Project

8. An Integrated Approach to Responding to the Climate Emergency

9. Gift Economics Principles [from FVN Handbook]

10. Circle Self-Assessment Process Description. [from East Point Peace Academy]

11. A Reparations Self-Audit [from FVN Handbook]

12. Mindfulness and Emotional Healing [John Bell]

13. Envisioning the Beloved Community [John Bell]

14. How to Raise Money. Tips for doing low hanging fruit type of fundraising for your project

15. Building Resilient Organization by Mo Mitchell, Nat’l Dir, Working Families Party.

16. MOCHA Project Management Model

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