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The Circle is excited to be offering a year long fellowship program called "Partners in Reciprocity" (PiR) - a thoughtfully designed peer learning program dedicated to supporting philanthropic peers in a reorientation toward equity and justice. PiR will be comprised of four gatherings, one for each season: Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. PiR will culminate with a large gathering in Fall 2021 where the Collective Harvest will be shared with peers in the sector. 

Partners in Reciprocity is a new way of working. While we aim to teach and deliver content (described below), the flow of the program will also be determined by what is needed by the participants and what the current context is calling for. The program will iterate and evolve throughout the year, and all of you will be a part of that process. 

What you need to know:

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THE PROGRAM: 
  • PiR is a 12 month commitment: January 2021 - December 2021​
  • ​PiR will consist of four virtual day-long gatherings: 
    • January 26 2021
    • April 27 2021
    • August 31 2021
    • November 30 2021
  • Each session will have pre-reading and pre-work, and that will be sent out at least one week in advance of the session.
  • There is an expectation of personal reflection and work inside each organization in between each session. We suggest at least a full day per month be set aside for this purpose. This could be an organizational commitment (i.e. not just the participating team), and could take the form of board meetings, executive leadership meetings, staff retreats, etc. 
  • Individual/team/organizational coaching from the facilitation team may be available between sessions  ​
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- 3 additional half days will be scheduled for March 2021, June 2021 , and October 2021
- PiR Faculty will be offering Office Hours for one-on-one coaching with teams to support their work incorporating their learnings into their institutions
TEAM COMPOSITION:
  • Each team should include a minimum of two people and a maximum of four
  • At least one team member must come from organizational leadership (e.g. members of the Executive team, Board members, Steering Committee members, etc.)​
* If you are stuck as to who should participate on your Organizational Team, consider the following:
  1. PiR is a hands on program with the core intention of actioning learnings to directly impact strategy, practice, and policy. With that in mind we invite you to engage members of your staff who have the power and positionally to uphold that intention.
  2. You are invited to prioritize Black, Indigenous, and people of colour (BIPOC) staffers and board members - be sure to consider a balance between positional power and BIPOC staff - and ensure staff have the safety to participate in this program and power to integrate their learnings. In addition to PiR programming, we will host BIPOC only caucus spaces for the duration of the program.

PROGRAMMING DETAILS:

HERE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS WE HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH: 
  • To create and implement specific actions that individuals and organizations can take to enter into reciprocal relationships with Indigenous individuals, organizations and communities. 
  • To share what we learned through those actions, whether they went as planned or not. Sharing will be with PiR participants as well as more publicly within the sector. 
  • To build the individual reflective practice necessary to undertake shared action towards reciprocity.
  • To teach, create, and share new approaches, tools, and methodologies that participants can use as they travel along a pathway of reciprocity. 

HERE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS YOU WILL LEARN:
  • Models and Frameworks for working with a systems approach in complexity - Cynefin and Two Loops
  • The Circle’s Four Spheres of Influence
  • Four Fold Practice and Art of Hosting practices - The Circle Way, World Cafe, Open Space Technology
  • Decentering whiteness. Feeling white supremacy in our bodies. Embodied work and somatic practice.
  • Decolonial analysis
  • The Work (Byron Katie)
  • Reciprocal and relationship-based models of leadership
  • Shared sense-making 

EACH SESSION WILL INCLUDE:
  • Teaching of a specific tool or method
  • Time for group reflection/processing
  • Work on questions, data collection and mechanisms of accountability
  • Plan for upcoming season 

Program Fees:

PiR is included in The Circle's membership.
Unsure of your membership status? You can check here.

Non-Circle Members: 
$2,000 CAD per Organizational Team 
* invoices will be sent directly to the primary email address shared 

APPLICATIONS CLOSED

Applicants have been notified of their status.