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CULTURE, CLIMATE & COURAGE

Stories bring
us together.

Stronger relationships. More human learning.
Communities ready to grow.

CircleBridge helps schools and organizations build trust, listen across difference, and turn shared stories into meaningful change.

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Four books. A shared relational foundation.
STORYLISTENINGTRUSTBELONGING

YOUR PARTNERS IN THE WORK

Meet Scott & Sharla.

Compass Culture, Climate & Courage

Our work draws on preparation in Center for Courage & Renewal facilitation and the Intercultural Development Inventory.

Meet our thought partners & advisory board

Partners whose experience and perspectives have helped shape the CircleBridge approach.

James O'Meara

James O'Meara

Winton Boyd

Winton Boyd

Casey Sovo

Casey Sovo

Dan Jesse

Dan Jesse

Michelle Accardi

Michelle Accardi

Lucy Fredericks

Lucy Fredericks

BEGIN WITH RELATIONSHIP

A bridge begins
with listening.

“Building a CircleBridge is not a destination but a continuous process—a dynamic, evolving journey shaped by every relationship, interaction, and decision.”

— Dr. Scott Simpson & Sharla Steever
CircleBridge: How Stories Bring Us Together
Chapter 18: Walking the Bridge

The wisdom a community needs often lives within the people already gathered there.

“Every individual’s experience carries wisdom, and through shared narratives, we can transcend cultural divides, nurture empathy, and foster collective growth.”

— Dr. Scott Simpson & Sharla Steever
CircleBridge: How Stories Bring Us Together
“CircleBridge Manifesto,” Preamble

We create space for people to share experiences, meet differences with curiosity, and discover principles they can put into practice together. Our work reaches classrooms, leadership teams, organizations and communities.

01 Share your story02 Listen with curiosity03 Grow trust together

EXPLORE • REFLECT • APPLY

Find your way in.

Choose the book that meets your needs.
Follow its companion site for deeper exploration.

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CIRCLEBRIDGE

CircleBridge

How Stories Bring Us Together

Build understanding across difference.

“We believe that human connection is rooted in the power of stories. Every individual’s experience carries wisdom, and through shared narratives, we can transcend cultural divides, nurture empathy, and foster collective growth. The CircleBridge approach is a call to bridge differences through understanding, intentionality, and shared learning.”

— Dr. Scott Simpson & Sharla Steever
CircleBridge: How Stories Bring Us Together
“CircleBridge Manifesto,” Preamble

A good place to begin for: Educators, facilitators and communities seeking connection.

More resources for CircleBridge
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RELATIONAL LANDSCAPING

Relational Landscaping

The Human Terrain of Organizations

Tend the relationships that shape your culture.

“Relational Landscaping is the art and practice of tending the human terrain of an organization. It invites us to see workplaces not as static structures of policy and procedure, but as living ecosystems—dynamic, interdependent, and always growing or changing in response to the environment around them.”

— Dr. Scott Simpson & Sharla Steever
Relational Landscaping: The Human Terrain of Organizations
Introduction: Welcome to the Living Landscape

A good place to begin for: Leaders, teams and organizations navigating change.

More resources for Relational Landscaping
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HUMAN SHAPED LEARNING

Human Shaped Learning

Beings Before Doings

Put the human experience at the heart of learning.

“This book is about remembering what we already know in our bones: that education is not first and foremost about performance or productivity. It’s about presence. It’s about relationship. It’s about placing beings before doings.”

— Dr. Scott Simpson & Sharla Steever
Human Shaped Learning: Beings Before Doings
Introduction: Beings Before Doings

A good place to begin for: Teachers, school leaders and staff learning together.

More resources for Human Shaped Learning
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STORYWORK

Storywork

A Dynamic, Story-Based Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum

Turn lived stories into meaningful SEL.

“The true purpose of Storywork Dynamic Story-Based SEL Curriculum (and the reason we call it “dynamic”) is to invite you—the educator—to become a story-shaper yourself. It’s not just about teaching social-emotional concepts; it’s about living them, telling them, making them real in the context of your own experience and your classroom community.”

— Dr. Scott Simpson & Sharla Steever
Storywork: A Dynamic Story-Based Social-Emotional Learning Curriculum
Introduction

A good place to begin for: K–12 educators, counselors, parents and homeschoolers.

More resources for Storywork

Some of our training and learning opportunities

WATCH & LISTEN

Our films & documentaries.

Voices, places and experiences that inform our work.

LET’S FIND A WAY FORWARD

What could grow
in your community?

Bring us your questions about belonging, cultural responsiveness, leadership, organizational change or learning. We’ll begin by listening.

Accessibility and assistance
USE FOR KINDLING

By Dr. Scott Simpson · Use for Kindling: Poems that Gather Us

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