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- Brief orientation to the Design Guide
- Introductory overview and basic walkthrough
- Best for people who want a quick starting point
CircleCraft™ Relationship Circles Practitioner Certificate Self-paced Course (Pre-orders now OPEN)
$99.97
Restorative Justice Relationship Circles Practitioner Certificate Provided
✔️ 3-hour self-paced course
✔️ Includes a Detailed Restorative Justice 101 Information
✔️ Includes Restorative Justice Indigenous Roots Module
✔️FREE Tools & Strategies
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CircleCraft™ Relationship Circles Practitioner Certificate Self-paced Course (Pre-orders now OPEN)
$99.97
CircleUp® Signature Practitioner Training
Learn to design and guide relationship circles with purpose, clarity, and confidence.
Go beyond a brief introduction to the CircleCraft™ Design Guide. This comprehensive self-paced course teaches the restorative justice foundations, design decisions, facilitation tools, and applied skills you need to prepare for relationship-circle practice.
Self-paced
Quizzes and assessments
Applied circle-design practice
Certificate upon successful completion
Nearly 12 years
shaped by real-world use and input from thousands of practitioners and experts
Practitioner Certificate
earned after completing required lessons, quizzes, and assessments
12
Nearly 12 years of course development and continuous refinement
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Foundational relationship-circle applications for proactive practice
10
Steps in the CircleCraft™ circle-design process
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Practitioner Certificate of Completion after successful course completion
Move from understanding the guide to making thoughtful practitioner decisions in real group settings.
The Full Practitioner Course
Companion Course
This Practitioner Course
This is not the mini introduction.
The companion courses help participants become familiar with the CircleCraft™ Design Guide. This course goes deeper by teaching the knowledge, judgment, preparation, and practice behind effective relationship-circle design and facilitation.
Build the practice behind the guide
- Comprehensive restorative justice foundations
- Applied design and facilitation instruction
- Quizzes, assessments, examples, and practice
- Practitioner Certificate of Completion
What You’ll Learn
A complete foundation for thoughtful relationship-circle practice.
Learn the concepts, language, design decisions, and practitioner tools that help circles feel purposeful—not improvised, performative, or disconnected from the people participating.
Restorative Justice Foundations
Understand essential restorative justice and restorative practices concepts, terms, principles, and proactive applications.
Relationship vs. Conflict Circles
Learn why proactive relationship circles and responsive conflict circles have different purposes, framing, preparation, and expectations.
Four Circle Applications
Explore circles used to establish relationships, build community, prevent conflict, and hold important or difficult conversations.
Facilitator Preparation
Strengthen how you prepare, explain the process, build participant trust, support engagement, and guide the experience.
Circle Design and Customization
Use the CircleCraft™ process to build circles that respond to a specific group, purpose, setting, culture, and community context.
Common Challenges and Solutions
Learn practical approaches for improving participation, refining questions, strengthening structure, and adapting when a circle needs support.
Proactive Relationship Circles
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Learn four ways circles can strengthen a community before conflict takes over.
Relationship circles are proactive. They help people connect, communicate, build shared understanding, and create stronger conditions for addressing challenges together.
Establish Relationships
Create intentional opportunities for people to learn about one another and begin building trust.
Build Community
Strengthen belonging, shared identity, connection, collaboration, and group culture.
Prevent Conflict
Develop communication, agreements, understanding, and relationships that reduce avoidable breakdowns.
Discuss Important Topics
Guide meaningful conversations about complex, sensitive, or difficult subjects with greater care.
Adapt the process for schools, workplaces, organizations, teams, therapeutic settings, and community groups.
CircleCraft™ 10-Step Design Process
Turn a good intention into a thoughtfully designed circle.
Across the 10-step process, you will practice how to make the design choices that shape a circle’s purpose, flow, participation, relevance, and impact.
Choose the Relationship Circle That’s Best for Your Participants
Choose the relationship circle framework that best fits your group’s needs, goals, and reason for coming together.
Review the Framework You Chose & All of the Parts of the Circle
Review the framework, the theme, and the parts of the circle, and decide whether you are designing a single circle or a circle series.
Identify Barriers, Considerations, & Constraints
Reflect on participant dynamics, personal considerations, the space, timing, accessibility needs, and any constraints that should shape your plan.
Choose the Theme of the Circle
Select the central focus that sets the tone and connects the opening, core activity, reflections, and closing into one cohesive experience.
Decide on a Core Activity That Aligns With the Theme
Choose and adapt the main activity so it directly supports the circle’s theme and the needs of your group.
Determine How Much Time You Have for Each Part
Map out how much time to give each part of the circle so the experience feels realistic, balanced, and purposeful.
Choose the Remaining Parts of the Circle and Modify Them
Choose the opening, introduction, agreements, reflection, closing, and transitions, then modify each part so it reflects the theme.
Make a List of Materials Needed for the Circle
List every material, setup item, handout, and tool you need, and consider quantities, accessibility, and creative substitutions.
Perform an Equity and Self-Care Check and Practice the Circle
Review the full plan for fairness, balance, inclusion, personal readiness, and possible sensitivities, and practice the circle if needed.
Guide Your Group Through the Circle and Evaluate the Process
Prepare participants, guide the circle with flexibility and care, and evaluate the experience so future circles can be even stronger.
How You’ll Learn
Designed for active learning—not passive watching.
The course combines clear instruction with analysis, reflection, practice, and assessment so you can test your understanding and apply what you learn.
Instructional Videos
Learn core concepts and practitioner strategies at your own pace.
Guided Walkthroughs
See how the CircleCraft™ Design Guide supports intentional choices.
Sample Circle Analysis
Assess examples and identify design strengths, gaps, and adaptations.
Applied Design Practice
Create and customize circles for the communities you serve.
Knowledge Checks
Reinforce important terms, distinctions, and practitioner decisions.
Required Assessments
Demonstrate course knowledge before receiving your certificate.
Core Course Resource
Use the CircleCraft™ Design Guide as a practical tool—not just a book on the shelf.
From Design to Practice
Learn to notice what makes a circle feel intentional, relevant, and responsive.
Examine the physical setting, facilitator role, prompts, participation structure, talking pieces, centerpiece, and overall experience through a practitioner lens.
Who This Course Is For
Built for new practitioners—and valuable for experienced ones.
Use this course to establish a strong beginning, refresh your practice, solve recurring design challenges, or develop new approaches for the groups and communities you support.
Restorative Justice Practitioners
Educators
School Administrators
Counselors
Therapists
Community Organizers
Consultants
Trainers
Team Leaders
Supervisors
Human Resources Professionals
Youth Development Professionals
Facilitators
Organizational Leaders
Social Service Professionals
Beginning Practitioners
Build the foundational language, structure, examples, and practitioner tools needed to begin designing relationship circles with greater clarity and confidence.
Intermediate and Advanced Practitioners
Refresh essential knowledge, examine common challenges, strengthen design decisions, and develop new ways to enhance established work.
Complete. Demonstrate. Earn.
Finish the course with documented proof of your training.
To earn your CircleCraft™ Relationship Circles Practitioner Certificate of Completion, complete the required lessons, quizzes, knowledge checks, and course assessments.
- Complete the required self-paced course lessons
- Test your understanding through quizzes and knowledge checks
- Demonstrate course knowledge through required assessments
- Receive your certificate after successful completion of all requirements
This credential is a practitioner Certificate of Completion documenting successful completion of CircleUp®’s CircleCraft™ Relationship Circles training. It is not an independent professional license or government-issued credential.
Frequently Asked Questions
Choose the course that matches your goal.
Is this the same as the CircleCraft™ Design Guide companion course?
No. The companion course is a brief orientation to the Design Guide. This practitioner course provides comprehensive instruction in restorative justice foundations, circle applications, facilitation tools, the 10-step design process, applied practice, quizzes, assessments, and certificate requirements.
Do I need restorative justice experience before enrolling?
No. The course is designed to give beginners a strong foundation while also providing useful tools, refreshers, challenge-solving strategies, and new approaches for experienced practitioners.
What kind of certificate will I receive?
After successfully completing the required lessons, quizzes, knowledge checks, and assessments, you will receive a CircleCraft™ Relationship Circles Practitioner Certificate of Completion from CircleUp®.
Will the course teach conflict-circle facilitation?
The course explains the important difference between proactive relationship circles and responsive conflict circles so you can identify, frame, and select the appropriate process. Its central focus is designing and guiding relationship circles.
Do I need the CircleCraft™ Design Guide?
The course is designed around the CircleCraft™ Relationship Circles Design Guide. Review the purchase options in the main product area above to confirm whether your selected option includes a guide or whether it should be purchased separately.
How will I access the course after purchasing?
After purchase, you will receive course access and enrollment instructions by email. Use the same email address at checkout that you want connected to your course enrollment.
Begin Your Practitioner Training
Move beyond knowing what a circle is. Learn how to design one with intention.
Build your restorative justice foundation, practice the CircleCraft™ 10-step design process, test your knowledge, and earn your Practitioner Certificate of Completion.
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