This was such a good read. Thank you for the links, too - I visited each one as well. So much to learn about the Circle process. Brenda Salgado's Awakin interview recently spoke to this. She asks her circle, "what do you want for your community?" Two weeks ago, I sent this question to seven of my wise friends and got some deep and nurturing and teaching responses. So I began "Village Fire" - a small newsletter for these sharings and hopefully a virtual call every month or so. I went deeper into this restorative question to bring community into family remembering Mother Theresa's quote, "If you want to bring about world peace, go home and love your family." This circle is in our living room now. The "yes" is so much more healing. I hope I can learn to communicate with everyone from this peaceful place, and to mend the fractured relationships a lifetime of living in perplexity has created starting with people in my family first. Thank you for this beautiful share. It really is so good to know there are teachers like you and others working weave these peaceful circles into our schools and to teach our kids what we never learned there. Kudos. ♥. Micky