stone circles’ Curriculum is based on 20 years of helping thousands of people transforming their work for social change. You can download the following highlights here:
Spirituality and Social Change: Capacities and the Role of Practice
Maps and Stories: A workshop for groups
Inner Work of Leadership: An Assessment
Exploring Sustainability: A workshop for groups
The curriculum will soon be available in 5 zines:
1. Spirituality and Social Justice: An Overview
- Introduction, gifts of the path, overview of core capacities
- Indicators of Impact and examples from around the country
- Language and words
- Sustainability and organizing, social transformation, faith and social justice, interfaith dialogue.
2. The Path of Self-Inquiry
- WORKSHOPS: Maps and Stories, Values Exploration, Finding Voice, Clearness Session
- REFLECTIONS: Intentions, Time
- ASSESSMENTS: Inner Work of Leadership, Use of Time
- TOOLS: Values List, Inner Work
3. The Path of Sustainability
- WORKSHOPS: Developing a Practice, Introducing Silence, Realities of Balance, Exploring Sustainability, Sustainability through Story
- ASSESSMENTS: Understanding Stress
- REFLECTION: Stress and Burnout, The Role of Healing, Working with Deep Emotions, Riding the Wave
- TOOLS: Cause and Effect, Mindfulness, Inner and Outer Work, Retreat
4. The Role of Practice in Social Change
- WORKSHOPS: Developing a Practice, Inner and Outer Work, Transformational Practice in Organizations, The Nature of Change, Organizational Culture and Values, Healthy Teamwork
- ASSESSMENTS: Organizational Strengths & Edges, Change Readiness
- REFLECTION: Examples of Strengths and Edges, Metaphors, Case Study on Organizational Culture & Practice
- TOOLS: Mindfulness, Transformational Practices, Five Ways to Shift Organizational Culture
5. Facilitation for Group Liberation
- FOUNDATION: Preparation, Core skills, Stages of Community-Building, Paradigms that Operate in Groups, Reading a Group
- REFLECTION: Facilitation Factors of Success, Understanding Groups through Various Lenses, Dynamic Tensions, Using Power, Suffering and Liberation in Groups
- TOOLS: Spiritual Protocol, Reflection and Evaluation, Paired Dialogue, Kinesthetic Channel Creative Process, Guided Meditation, Small Groups, Stations of Reflection, Writing, Bringing it Home, Liberatory Interventions
