This Circle is designed for mid-career social and environmental impact professionals who feel a strong call to update or reimagine their vision for life, leadership, and impact.

The circle is open to people from different fields and backgrounds such as education, research, law, public health, social work, environmental conservation, arts and culture, spiritual leadership, public service, nonprofit leadership, and community organizing.

What connects participants is a shared commitment to equity, justice, sustainability, collective well-being, and contributing to the common good.

You may be a fit for this Circle if you recognize yourself in many of the following:

• You've spent years developing your knowledge, experience, and capabilities in preparation for making a meaningful contribution.

• You remain deeply committed to equity, justice, sustainability, community, or collective well-being, even as you reconsider how best to advance those commitments.

• You're moving into a season of greater responsibility, leadership, and stewardship, and want to be deliberate about what you dedicate yourself to.

• You're beginning to think about your contribution beyond any particular job, title, institution, or professional identity.

• You’ve experienced the world change in ways that have complicated the future you once imagined.

• You want to make the next chapter of your life count, while also building a life that sustains your well-being, relationships, and quality of life.

• You're open to exploring multiple possibilities, questioning assumptions, and testing new directions before making significant commitments.

• You're willing to listen deeply, engage honestly across differences, and contribute your perspectives, care, and support to the growth of others.

Weekly full circle gatherings form the majority of the program experience, with occasional weeks dedicated to listening and coaching sessions.

Because the experience depends on connection and trust developed from week to week, consistent participation matters.

You should plan to participate in all gatherings and sessions.

You'll also need to make time between sessions for guided reflection, purposeful conversations, and manageable real-world experiments.

The intention isn't to create another overwhelming obligation, but to invite a meaningful investment of attention and action in questions that matter to your life.

The Investment is $800

An early bird price of $627 is applied until November 6th.

This includes the complete three-month experience: facilitated group gatherings, the virtual retreat, three private coaching sessions, and guided life-design practices and experiments.

Payment arrangements and a limited number of reduced-rate places will be available, with consideration given to financial need and cohort fit.

You can request consideration for a reduced-rate place in your application. Financial documentation is not required.

Not exactly.

The Circle is about discerning the contribution you want to make in the next chapter of your life, and designing a meaningful, sustainable direction for pursuing it.

For some participants, that may involve exploring a new career, professional role, independent practice, or starting an organization.

For others, it may involve approaching existing work differently, becoming more active in a community, strengthening an existing institution, or contributing to a collective effort.

The central question isn't simply what job you should pursue next, but what work, relationships, and commitments deserve your capacities and attention in the years ahead.

Dialogue is central to the experience, but it's not the only activity.

The Circle combines facilitated conversation with guided life design, individual coaching, peer listening partnerships, reflection, experimentation, and practical planning.

You'll have opportunities to explore possibilities through small, but impactful real-world actions.

No, but you have to want to find out.

You may begin with a strong sense of possibility, several competing interests, or more questions than answers.

The process is designed to help you explore those possibilities, examine what's meaningful and realistic, and develop a direction through reflection, dialogue, and experimentation.

You don't need to arrive with a plan. Developing one is part of what we'll work toward together.

The Circle is designed for people who want to examine their future with greater intention, whether or not they're considering an immediate transition.

You may discover that your most meaningful next step is to deepen an existing commitment or bring greater alignment to how you're already living and leading.

The facilitated experience concludes in March 2027, but there will be opportunities for group reunion and reconnection, as well as continued individual coaching and support.

The connections and relationships that emerge may continue to develop beyond our formal time together (If you want them to).

Begin with the reflective application.

You'll be invited to share a little about your current chapter of life, the questions or possibilities you're exploring, and what draws you to the Circle.

The application is also an opportunity to discern if Year on Purpose would serve you well in this moment.