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How
have we strengthened our relationship with the person at the center of
the circle?
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What
have we learned about accommodating the person so that we are better
able to understand him or her; and so that he or she is better able to
participate in the work of the circle?
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What
assumptions about the person's preferences, interests, or abilities
have we revised? What have we been wrong in believing about the
person? What differences have those of us who are closest to the
person discovered between our own preferences, interests, and values
and those of the person?
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How
have we shared the person's life outside the formal work of the
circle?
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How
has our shared knowledge about the person's identity and desirable
future grown? What has becomes less certain about the future and what
has become more clear to us?
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What
have we agreed to invest in for the person's long-term future?
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What
have we discovered about what works to assist the person with life
changes?
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What
have we done to deepen our understanding of the person?
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What
have we done to better organize our shared action?
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What
actions have we taken that identify and deal with threats to the
person's safety, comfort, and well being?
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What
actions have we taken that stretch us outside our comfort zone?
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What
has the circle put behind itself (for example, resentment at the
responsibilities of circle membership, or fear of sharing dreams, or
denial of unsatisfactory conditions)?
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What
conflicts still get the circle stuck?
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What
do members see and believe that they are afraid to say? What circle
business do people talk about outside the circle that doesn’t get
brought up with the whole circle?
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What
decisions does the circle try to avoid by passing them on to service
agency authority?
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What
issues cause unproductive fights and cue disrespectful treatment of
other circle members or supported living staff?
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| How
has the circle reached out to recruit new members and put them to
work…
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...by
increasing our ability to speak openly and honestly when we disagree?
...by
dealing more creatively with conflicts?
...by
learning how to better understand members with different points of view?
...by
finding ways to inquire more deeply into issues that keep coming up over
and over again without resolution?
...by
noticing when we fail to treat other members respectfully and making
amends?
...by
acknowledging our own ways of getting in the way of the circle's work and
supporting one another to achieve self control?
...through
participation in training related to values issues and positive practices?
...through
research on how to make the systems that affect available opportunities
work for the person?
...in
discussion and exchange with members of other circles?
...by
learning ways to improve the effectiveness of the circle as a creative
problem solving group?
