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Bulk CircleCraft™ Relationship Circles Design Guide & Self-paced Companion
$429.95
The CircleCraft™ Relationship Circles Design Guide is restorative justice facilitation guide that helps educators, facilitators, counselors, and team leaders plan and lead restorative circles with clarity and purpose. Handmade in Oakland, California & designed for schools, workplaces, and community settings, this restorative circles guide supports community-building circles, team-building circles, SEL activities, classroom circles, and structured group dialogue through a flexible circle design process. With lesson plans, facilitation guidance, circle structure tools, and QR access to eLearning, it gives practitioners a practical system for building trust, strengthening communication, and creating shared agreements that support belonging. Ideal for restorative justice practitioners, school teams, and workplace facilitators who need a customizable circle process tool they can use again and again.
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CircleCraft™ Relationship Circles Design Guide
Stop searching for the perfect preplanned circle. Learn how to craft the right one.
CircleCraft™ gives you a practical, repeatable way to design restorative justice relationship circles around the people who are actually in the room. Consider your purpose, participants, available time, accessibility needs, trust, group dynamics, and community context, then build a circle that fits.
Physical full-color design guide
Downloadable planning resources
Free self-paced companion course
10 steps
A clear process for moving from purpose to a ready-to-use circle plan.
600,000+
Possible circle combinations for flexible, responsive design.
12 years
Developed and refined through more than a decade of real-world use.
2,000+
Educators and community leaders informed the guide's development.
300+
Revisions helped refine the process into a practical system.
A different kind of circle-planning tool
A library gives you circles. CircleCraft™ helps you build the craft.
Preplanned circles can be useful when you need a quick starting point. The challenge is that the same activity, question, or sequence will not fit every classroom, team, workplace, or community. CircleCraft™ is designed to help you make thoughtful decisions instead of relying on a one-size-fits-all script.
Planning need
Preplanned circle collections
CircleCraft™ design system
Starting point
Choose a finished topic or activity that is already written.
Start with your purpose, participants, needs, available time, and context.
Customization
Edit a circle after it has already been designed.
Build the circle intentionally from color-coded options, discussion prompts, and your own aligned activities.
Cohesion
The sequence may need substantial adjustment when your community's needs are different.
A 10-step process helps each part connect to the purpose and to the parts that come before and after it.
Skill building
Provides ready-to-use ideas and examples.
Builds a repeatable planning habit so you become more skilled at designing circles over time.
Long-term use
Best when the existing circle already fits the situation.
Designed for ongoing use across new groups, topics, settings, time limits, and community needs.
This is not about never using a preplanned circle. It is about knowing how to evaluate, adapt, and design circles with enough structure to support fidelity and enough flexibility to respond to real people.
The 10-step CircleCraft™ Design Process
Turn circle design into a process you can repeat, teach, and improve.
CircleCraft™ breaks the mechanics of relationship-circle design into a sequence that is easier to understand and use. Developed by educators and facilitators, then refined with feedback from thousands of people doing this work, the guide makes the planning process visible instead of treating great facilitation as something that only comes from instinct or a special gift.
Clarify why you are gathering. Define the purpose and the type of relationship-building circle you actually need.
Design for the people in front of you. Consider participants, trust, accessibility, interpersonal dynamics, and community context.
Choose each part intentionally. Use color-coded sections to locate activities and shape the flow of your circle.
Work within real time limits. Build a circle that is meaningful, cohesive, and realistically time-bound.
Turn the design into a facilitation plan. Use the downloadable planning sheets to create a complete, ready-to-use lesson or session plan.
Practice builds craftsmanship. In our work with educators, we have seen circle designs become more intentional and cohesive as practitioners repeat the CircleCraft™ process across their first several circles. The system is designed to help you learn while you use it.
It goes far beyond choosing activities. The process also prompts you to identify barriers and constraints, plan for accessibility and time, prepare materials, complete an equity and self-care check, practice the circle, adapt while facilitating, and evaluate the experience afterward.
It goes far beyond choosing activities. The process also prompts you to identify barriers and constraints, plan for accessibility and time, prepare materials, complete an equity and self-care check, practice the circle, adapt while facilitating, and evaluate the experience afterward.
Four relationship-circle frameworks
First decide why people are coming together. Then build the circle around that purpose.
CircleCraft™ teaches four distinct relationship-building circle frameworks. The framework acts as the base that holds the experience together, helping you choose activities, questions, timing, and transitions that support the reason your group is gathering.
Community Agreement Circle
Turn shared values and needs into clear expectations, boundaries, and agreements for how a classroom, team, or community will work, learn, or coexist together.
Team Building Circle
Strengthen connection, trust, understanding, and collaboration, especially for new groups or groups that need a stronger relational foundation.
Discussion Circle
Create structured space for meaningful dialogue around an issue, experience, challenge, event, concern, or celebration using intentional discussion rounds.
Design one circle or a connected series. Once you understand the framework, CircleCraft™ also introduces how multiple circles can build around one shared theme so each experience can intentionally build on the last. The free companion course models a complete circle for each of the four frameworks and includes a planning example for each.
What is inside the guide
Everything you need to move from “we should do a circle” to a circle you are ready to facilitate.
The guide combines restorative justice foundations, practical circle mechanics, activity options, design guidance, and planning tools in one full-color published resource.
Restorative justice foundations
An accessible introduction to restorative justice, relationship circles, and common terms that help you understand the practice behind the activities.
10-step design process
A repeatable sequence that helps you think through purpose, people, timing, flow, and the decisions that make a circle feel intentional.
Color-coded activity sections
Quickly locate options for different parts of a circle, then select, modify, or replace activities based on what your community needs.
Discussion-round support
Guidance for developing discussion rounds and questions so conversations have enough structure without becoming rigid or disconnected.
Example circle types
See modeled examples that help you understand how different relationship-building circles can be structured and why the pieces change.
Durable full-color pages
A physical guide printed in full color on durable glossy pages so the color-coded process is easy to navigate during planning and facilitation.
See CircleCraft™ in under a minute
See how the guide turns hundreds of options into one clear circle-planning process.
Watch a quick overview of the color-coded activities, 10-step process, downloadable planning resources, full-color guide, and free companion course.
Included free
CircleCraft™ Design Guide Companion Course
You do not have to figure out the guide alone.
Your CircleCraft™ guide includes a free self-paced companion course that walks through the design process step by step and models how to build four different types of relationship-building circles.
Learn how to use the design guide from start to finish.
See all four relationship-building circle types modeled and receive a planning example for each.
Explore how time, accessibility, trust, and group dynamics can change design decisions.
Build confidence whether you are new to circles or refining an established practice.
The course is free because restorative justice training should be more accessible. You can also share the companion course with colleagues who want to understand the CircleCraft™ process.
Plan on paper or on your device
Design the circle, turn it into a plan, and bring that plan with you.
QR codes in the guide connect you to downloadable circle-planning sheets. Use the printable version when you want to write by hand, or use the digital planning resource to prepare a circle and keep it available on a phone, tablet, or computer while you facilitate.
Because the planning sheet is editable, you can make small changes as your group, timing, or facilitation needs shift. The goal is structure without locking you into a script.
Community agreements
Values exploration
Team building
Group discussions
Relationship building
Reflection circles
Retreats
Classroom community
Built for real communities
From kindergarten classrooms to city departments, the process adapts to the people you serve.
CircleCraft™ grew through years of use and feedback across schools, workplaces, public agencies, nonprofits, community settings, and professional learning environments. The same design process can support a beginning facilitator and an experienced practitioner because the choices change with the context.
Teachers & classroom educators
Restorative justice practitioners
School counselors & administrators
Therapists & helping professionals
Managers & team leaders
Public-sector employees
Nonprofit & community leaders
Facilitators & circle keepers
Need more than one guide?
Start with the guide. Scale the practice when your team is ready.
This page is for one CircleCraft™ Relationship Circles Design Guide. If you are equipping a school, department, organization, or facilitator cohort, CircleUp® also offers institutional packs and practitioner training.
Equip your full team with the same planning process.
Bulk pack sizes from 5 through 1,000 guides can be purchased online. For purchase orders, very large quantities, pallet delivery coordination, or additional 500+ quantity discounts, the CircleUp® team can help.
Want guided practice designing and facilitating circles?
Explore CircleUp® restorative justice training for deeper practice in relationship-circle design and facilitation, including live online and onsite learning options and practitioner certificate pathways.
Quick answers before you order
CircleCraft™ FAQ
Is CircleCraft™ a book of preplanned circles?
No. CircleCraft™ is not a book of preplanned circles. It teaches you the process for designing circles. The guide gives you four frameworks, a 10-step design process, and a variety of activities that fit into different parts of the circle so you can mix, match, modify, and combine them to create the experience your group needs. If you want to see fully planned examples, the free CircleCraft™ companion course models a circle for each of the four frameworks and includes a planning example for each.
How long does it take to design a circle?
Once you are familiar with the process, many relationship-building circles can be customized and planned in about 15 minutes. More advanced circles may take approximately 30 to 35 minutes, depending on the topic, group dynamics, accessibility needs, timing, and level of customization. To make activity selection even faster, pair the guide with the Relationship-Building Cue Cards™, which give you additional card-based options for different parts of the circle. Ordering for a team? View bulk Cue Card packs.
Do I need restorative justice experience to use the guide?
No. The guide includes introductory restorative justice and relationship-circle information, and the free companion course walks through the design process step by step. Experienced practitioners can also use the system to make their planning more consistent, intentional, and easier to adapt.
Does the guide come with digital resources?
Yes. QR codes provide access to downloadable circle-planning sheets that can be printed or used digitally. The guide also comes with a free self-paced companion course that provides guided instruction for using the CircleCraft™ process and models the four relationship-circle frameworks. Explore or register for the free companion course.
Can I use CircleCraft™ outside of schools?
Yes. CircleCraft™ can support relationship-building sessions, team meetings, retreats, group discussions, community experiences, workplace circles, restorative practices, and other facilitated experiences where trust, connection, voice, reflection, and shared understanding matter.
Can my organization order guides in bulk?
Yes. Institutional packs are available online, with pack sizes from 5 through 1,000 guides. CircleUp® can also support purchase orders, large-volume orders, pallet delivery coordination, and additional pricing conversations for orders of 500 or more.
Is the free companion course required?
No. You can use the physical guide on its own. The companion course is included as an additional support so you can see the process modeled and get more guidance while building confidence with CircleCraft™.
Are more ready-to-use CircleCraft™ circles coming?
Yes. A digital resource featuring real circles designed by practitioners using the CircleCraft™ process is planned as a future companion resource. The goal is to share practical examples while still teaching the design thinking behind strong circle practice.
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Ready when you are
Build circles for the people in front of you, not for an imaginary one-size-fits-all group.
Get the CircleCraft™ Relationship Circles Design Guide, use the 10-step process, access the planning resources, and take the free companion course whenever you are ready. One guide can become the planning system you return to every time the people, purpose, or context changes.
Ordering for a school, agency, or organization?
We can help with the logistics.
If the online bulk options do not fully fit your order, schedule a free CircleUp® assessment. We can talk through the quantity, purchasing process, delivery needs, and whether training would make sense alongside the guides.
- Bulk guide packs available online
- Purchase orders accepted
- 500+ quantity pricing conversations
- Pallet delivery coordination for large orders
- CircleCraft™ training and practitioner development options
For one guide, use the purchase button above. This scheduling area is intended for institutional orders, purchase-order questions, very large quantities, or organizations that also want training support.
