Product Highlight: Why every Circle Keeper needs the Handbook in this kit

Our Circle Keeper Kit Handbook is a comprehensive and heart-centered guide equipped with practical tools and foundational knowledge for leading restorative circles in schools, organizations, and communities.

Core Components of the Handbook:

• Circle Setup & Key Elements: Offers guidance on physical layout, use of centerpieces and talking pieces, and the importance of co-created commitments.
• Core Principles of Restorative Justice: Emphasizes relationships, shared decision-making, healing, prevention, accountability, and repairing harm.
• The Circle Process: Outlines each step—preparation, opening, check-in, core rounds, closing, and follow-up—to ensure a thoughtful and intentional experience.

Facilitation Support:

• Best Practices & Common Pitfalls
• How to use the Talking Cards
• How to use the books in the kit
• Troubleshooting Guidance: Provides solutions for challenges like lack of participation, disruptive behavior, emotional disclosures, and the need for flexibility or post-circle follow-up.
  
  

Circle Keeper Kit (Pre-Order)

The Circle Keeper Kit is a thoughtfully curated collection of materials, resources, prompts, and guidance designed to support meaningful, restorative, and community-building circles in any setting.

What's Included:

• Centerpiece
• Circle Keeper Kit Handbook
• Talking Piece (actual talking piece may vary)
• 30 Talking Cards (Connection Questions, Quote Cards, & This or That Cards)
• Restorative Community Commitments Handout
• The Little Book of Circle Processes by Kay Pranis
• The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice by Fania E. Davis
• Digital access to our FREE Circle Guide, which includes 3 fully scripted circle plans
• FREE Joy stone (can also be used as a talking piece)
• FREE Restorative Discipline Mindset Handout
• Circle Keeper Kit box