From Hierarchical Model

to Circle Model

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Circles are innate to women.

Though women have always come together in Circle in one way or another, we have been pressured for many years to live under a predominantly Hierarchical Model of structures and leadership. It is a ‘top-down’ model that is still the structure found in most schools, organizations, corporations, businesses and in traditional families.

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In a The Hierarchal Model there is a top, a middle and bottom:

• The top is the CEO, president, principle, director and in traditional families father. The top knows best and tells others what to do.

• There is a middle. This is the manager, supervisor, teacher chairperson and in traditional families mother. The middle conveys the decisions and messages from the top to the bottom. They make sure those on the bottom do what they are told.

• There is a bottom. They are the workers, members, students, and in traditional families children.

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The Circle Model…

is a more collaborative model that has room for an emergent design. It is an egalitarian way of being with one another where everyone works together and is honored for their gifts. The power, the resources, the decision-making, and the work all are shared. This ensures full participation, personal growth and unlimited creativity.

In Circle:

• There is no top and no bottom, just one fluid dynamic system
• The network is formed around a common passion
• Leaders emerge naturally and only inspire to direct and make the group cohesive. They act as a guiding part of a greater whole, not as a director over.
• Groups are more fluid and act from a common commitment to Circle Principles
• Self-sustaining
• Reorganizations happen organically all the time and are easy.
• Conflict resolution and Win/Win Communication is innate in the structure

Through Circle:

• We become better communicators
  
• Build healthier relationships, deepen trust, and appreciate differences
  
• Become more compassionate decision makers and problem solvers
  
• Develop more balanced, meaningful, and passionate lives
  
• Contribute to our communities
  
• Expand our authenticity, build confidence and a empower healthy self esteem

Circles provide the common ground for all to be truly heard and offers a respectful way of coming together to find new solutions to problems, co-create new resources, events and programs, and close the gap between opposing sides. The Circle Process shifts the focus from ‘forcing’ and ‘power-over’ to ‘allowing’ and ‘power-with’.

It seems that the challenges we face today are calling for a shift to a more gentle and conscious way of being with one another if we are to connect and create a new earth.

Circle Connections is committed to bringing forward Circles as mainstream and promote compassionate connections as the means through which we will mutually creating a new earth. Connecting in Circle and living by Circle Principles in all facets of our lives is a proactive response to what we have experienced at the hands of a Hierarchical Model of structures and leadership that no longer serves us. The Circle Process and Circle Principles offer an age old healthy form of communication and governance that allows for an alchemy of the masculine and the feminine. It enlivens YinPowerment and strengthens the foundation for Shared Leadership.

Stop running in circles and become a part of one!

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