Welcome to

The Circle Project


We open creative space for people who desire to change themselves and their world. We spark creative fire...




What is The Circle Project?

Founded in 2005 by Patti Digh and David Robinson, The Circle Project helps individuals, organizations, and communities create new patterns, new stories, new cultures.

image courtesy of Lora Abernathy

“Working with Patti and David is always a transformative experience. Our teams learn new ways of being that help them reframe issues and seek bold solutions to workplace challenges. The experiences Patti and David provide will leave you energized, inspired and empowered and most importantly, you’ll remember why you’re doing this work.” - Cory Cancila, First Vice President, Human Resources, Equity Residential

We resist elevator speeches because we believe people need to use the stairs. There is a complexity to transformational work that demands some space and reverence. That said: We open creative space for people who desire to change themselves and their world. We help them step toward big questions and uncertainty where they learn to see, think, and act from a new perspective.

We design extraordinary learning opportunities that aren’t transactional but transformative. We create embodied learning and knowing. We’re not just trainers. We are thought leaders and idea instigators and we work with three primary audiences: Individuals, Organizations, and Teachers/Facilitators.

In addition, we work with meeting planners to co-create memorable and meaningful keynotes for their conferences.

 

 

Put down your clever (a free poster)

We have a small gift for you, a poster with one of the core concepts of our work featured on it. Put down your clever, and pick up your ordinary. Because at your ordinary, you are your most potent, your most powerful. We spend a lot of time in our lives trying to be clever, [...]

Conditions for change (and learning)

We worked last week with educators in Hastings, Nebraska, to explore how to reinvent their classrooms to move from a “fixed” to a “growth” mindset. As the group talked about how they could take the work back to their classrooms, I doodled in the back to create this model of the conditions for change and [...]