One of the goals of Circle Connections is to link organizations
that share a broad common vision of the power of circles, an appreciation
of our individual uniqueness and an understanding of our collective
strength. If your organization shares these ideals, we invite you to
partner with us through reciprocal cross-listing of circle related
events and projects. For more information, please DOWNLOAD our
co-creators application. Following are a list of our co-creators
presented in alphabetical order.
3rd
International Women’s
Peace Conference in Dallas, TX, is sponsored
by Peacemakers Incorporated, a Texas non-profit, 501(c)(3)
organization founded and incorporated in March, 1987
to sponsor international women’s conferences on
peace. The mission is to create paths of peace by example
and positive action, both locally and globally, through
encouragement, communication, education and friendship.
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Circles
of Ten is a grassroots, non-profit
organization that emphasizes the empowerment
of women to create a culture of peace at home,
in schools, in their communities, and in the
world. |
Circles
are a unit of community: a co-creative learning-teaching
environment, a place for the development of emotional
intelligence, interdependence, cooperation and social
evolution. The mission of Circles
Work is to
start small, egalitarian Circles for personal support,
growth and development of leadership potential, linked
to the Millionth Circle network. |
The
vision of Crones
Counsel is to reclaim the
Crone archetype through the creation of gatherings of
women which model processes that:
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promote equality,
• encourage diversity
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support personal empowerment, and
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honor the value to society of older women's
wisdom and
accomplishments |

Gather
the Women Global Matrix is a gathering place
for women and women's organizations who share a belief that
the time is now to activate the incredible power of women's
wisdom on a planetary scale.
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Global
Family, founded in 1986, is a non-profit
international network of individuals and groups who choose
to experience themselves as members of one human family and
who desire to actualize their true life purpose through joining
with others in compassionate action for the benefit of all...
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Global
Goddess is a church registered
in the State of Texas as a religious non-profit
corporation for women who honor a feminine
aspect of deity. Our mission is to provide
spiritual support and practical assistance
to Goddess women helping women worldwide.
They do this by providing an online internet
forum or sets of forums as places of refuge
and dialogue for such women. Through these
forums and in some cases in person at actual
meetings or gatherings they seek to promote
the ongoing and active participation in dialogue,
personal communications, and a sense of community
for the purpose of supporting each other as
they each do their work in their own communities
and in the world at large.
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Kryta
Deere is a holistic Retreat & Learning Center dedicated
to nurturing, healing, conscious-raising and wisdom
sharing. Through our programs, focused on The
Art of Soulful Living. We provide the space and stimulation
with the desire to help our guests integrate Body, Mind and
Spirit. |
Mama
na Dada-Africa is a non-profit, non-governmental organization
formed by and for African women to support the empowerment
of the African girl child. We are a registered charity
in Bondo District and Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa. Our
mission is to reduce the vulnerability to exploitation
of girls in Africa through: Research into the barriers
to girl’s education and development; Promotion
of access to education, both formal and informal; Training
to build self-esteem and learn life skills.
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The
Millionth Circle Intention Statement:
Circles
encourage connection and cooperation among their
members and inspire compassionate solutions to
individual, community and world problems. We believe
that circles support each member:
- to find her
or his own voice and to live more courageously,
and intend: to
seed and nurture circles, wherever possible, in
order to cultivate equality, sustainable livelihoods,
preservation of the earth and peace for all
- to bring the circle process
into United Nations accredited non-governmental
organizations and the 5th UN World Conference
on Women, and
- to connect circles so
they may know themselves as a part of a larger movement
to shift consciousness in the world.
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Offerings
Publications is a member-supported
endeavor whose goal is to provide its members
with original and innovative content and services
that are exciting, informative and thought-provoking,
through its website, its creative works and
its online and face-to-face gatherings. By
focusing on the issues that matter most to
women today, we hope to celebrate and be celebrated
by the evolving women to whom Offerings is
dedicated.
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The
mission of PEACE
X PEACE is to improve the status of women
and build sustainable peace. We assist women in reaching
their full potential as leaders and decision-makers
alongside men by providing women with an innovative
tool: our Internet-based Global Network, which facilitates
direct online communications between women-led groups
("Circles") across the United States and Sister
Circles around the world.
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PeerSpirit is
an education and service company that believes council,
or circle, to be the common root of all cultures, a
tradition that can take us from the campfire to the
future. Council facilitates a level of conversation
that allows groups of people to accomplish goals through
an integrated experience of heart and mind.
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The Red
Web Foundation a non-profit
501(c)3 organization dedicated to supporting a positive
societal view of girls' and women's bodies and menstrual
cycles from first menstruation (called menarche) through
menopause. Members of The Red Web Foundation form a
network of women committed to promoting menstrual health
in their personal and professional lives. These “menstrual
health advocates” offer a diverse range of products,
workshops, and educational materials and include artists,
mental health professionals, businesswomen, moms, students,
teachers, and health care providers. The Foundation
is committed to including a diversity of cultural views
and experiences of the menstrual life-cycle. We honor
individual and cultural practices of the present day
and the past which promote a healthy outlook for women
and society.
The “Women's World Conference:
Sophia, Women and Wisdom,” (SWWC) to take place
in Sofia, Bulgaria on May 25-29, 2010, builds on the
United Nations four World Conferences on Women and the
UN Platform for Action Declaration-Beijing 1995. |
The
Sophia Women's World Conference (SWWC) is planned to
take place in Sofia, Bulgaria on May 25-29, 2010. It
builds on the United Nations four World Conferences
on Women and the UN Platform for Action Declaration-Beijing
1995. For more information and/or to get involved in
the planning, visit the website at www.sophiawwc.org.
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Spheres
Women's Circles Magazine is a connecting tool
that serves as an expanding resource and forum
for the expression of the feminine heart.
It's all about connecting for the benefit of ALL!
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SpiralMuse is
an organization to connect and inspire women as
community, manifesting their visions and living
their dreams. We celebrate depth and partnership,
health and healing, and each woman's full expression
for all to see, feel and experience. We honor wisdom,
tradition and legacy through women sharing stories,
revealing each other's essence and acknowledging
our gifts. We invite you to connect with other
women and add your unique vision to the evolving
canvas of dreams. Together, we are creating a masterpiece
of fulfilled visions. We are an expression
of woman as muse, authentic femininity weaving
itself into a powerful community, a community we
call SpiralMuse. |
United
States Social Forum (USSF): Under
the banner of ‘Another World is Possible,’ tens
of thousands of community organizers, trade unionists,
students/youth, NGO representatives, elected officials
and social movements gather for a weeklong conference
filled with dialogues, workshops, debates, marches,
rallies, and cultural events. The World Social
Forum (WSF) was created to provide an open platform
to discuss alternatives to the economic plans created
by multi-national corporations and the governments
at the World Economic Forum that often result in
strategies that suppress workers and human rights,
and undermine national and Indigenous sovereignty.
The USSF has since become an annual event, hosting
up to 100,000 people each year.
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The
mission of US
Women Connect is to connect all US women
for a larger, louder, more powerful and collective voice
in polices critical to women and our families. Building
bridges from the ground up, USWC is linking state coalitions
and alliances across county lines into state networks
for support of a US women’s agenda and the Beijing+10
Platform for Action for equality, development and peace.
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Vessels
of Peace is an international spiritual development and
service network for women. Our intention is to be embodiments
of peace and to presence that peace in our lives and
in the world, through service to divinity, humanity
and the earth. We serve through our inner transformation,
our outer example, and our individual and collective
intention. Vessels of Peace is not affiliated with any
one religion or path; women from many different backgrounds
participate, and all are welcome. We are committed to
exploring and co-creating with Divine Feminine Presence,
believing this to be a necessary step to creating lasting
peace within ourselves and in our world.
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WOMEN'S
INTERCULTURAL NETWORK (WIN)
connects women and girls through CALLING the CIRCLE, our
ground-breaking program that is currently linking women from
the U.S., Afghanistan, Uganda, and Japan for full participation
in Democracy. WIN also coordinates the California Women's
Agenda (CAWA), a million women network that organizes - not
an organization that networks. CAWA and CALLING the CIRCLE
are ways in which WIN is working to implement the Beijing
Platform of Action, the document created from the 4th United
Nations Conference on Women, 1995, and reaffirmed by 189
nations in March, 2005. CAWA is a partner with nine other
state hubs in US Women Connect (USWC).
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