Classes & Events
We offer online and in-person classes, wilderness expeditions, and facilitator training, that provide a transformational experience bringing your personal and professional life into alignment.
Classes & Events
Circle Lab
Adapt or Die: The Nature of Change
4pm - 5pm PST, April 2nd, 2025
Virtual
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Free
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Nature thrives through adaptability and resilience, offering profound lessons for personal and organizational change. In this session, we'll explore how principles from the natural world—cycles, interdependence, and adaptation—can inspire strategies for navigating uncertainty and fostering sustainable growth.
*Scholarships Available
Circle Lab
Conflict as a Catalyst
4pm - 5pm PST, May 7, 2025
Virtual
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Free
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Far from being a negative force, tension, and conflict can spark innovation and progress when managed well (and even when managed not so well). This Circle Labs will focus on harnessing the creative energy that arises from disagreement and friction, transforming it into opportunities for growth, understanding, and collaboration.
*Scholarships Available
Seven Devils' Revenge
7am - 1pm, June 7th
Brookings, Oregon
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$150
*
Attention all hybrid, mountain, and tactical athletes! This message is for those driven by a passion that can only be quenched through complete physical and mental exertion. Are you ready to push your limits and join something greater than yourself? You're invited to participate in an exhilarating race that will challenge you and contribute to a larger cause. This is a fundraising event for the Open Circle Foundation to support first responders and front line service workers.
*Scholarships Available
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Beginner
The Listening Circle Training
Mar 27 - Apr 4, 2025 (2 hrs a day for 4 days)
Virtual
$195 DISCOUNTED from $350 for SPRING
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In this online training for organizational and community leaders, you’ll learn how to use the Listening Circle practice and principles to cultivate diverse, trusting groups around a shared mission—driving synergy, innovation, and well-being.
*Scholarships Available
Advanced
Soul and Spirit in Leadership
Oct 16-25, 2025 (9 days)
Lost Sierra Retreat Center, Graeagle California
$1,950
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Join an exclusive group of intrepid leaders, innovators, and pioneers on a new kind of leadership soul and spirit adventure on the banks of the Feather River in Lost Sierras California, with its expansive wilderness, place of abundant winding rivers, rich life, and diverse human community. This training dives deep into what it means to live your purpose through your leadership journey.
*Scholarships Available
Expeditions
Intermediate
Strength to Serve: Leadership Mastery Program
Siskiyou Wilderness, Oregon
June 3rd - July 16th
$3,950
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Strength to Serve is a 2-month journey that will support you to in your journey of service to self, others and in the world with empathy, courage, and renewed sustenance. You will be supported in this journey by resource rich group sessions, guest teachers, 1:1 coaching, and a small mature group of co travelers dedicated to service. Your journey will culminate in a 9-day backpacking retreat in the Siskiyou Wilderness in Southern Oregon.
*Scholarships Available
Intermediate
Solitude: Wild Rogue Men’s Trip 2026
Lower Rogue River Trail, Oregon, USA
Apr 12-17, 2025 (5 days)
$1750
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For men who serve others—leaders, first responders, educators, veterans, and caregivers—this 5-day backpacking journey along Oregon’s legendary Rogue River offers the chance to step away from the day-to-day and reconnect with purpose. Refuel your mind, body, and spirit.
*Scholarships Available
On-Demand Classes
We offer several introductory online classes that you can take at your own pace, whenever it suits your schedule. Our classes include video tutorials, source materials, and exercises to enhance your learning experience.
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Scholarships
We are committed to accessibility and offer scholarships through our foundation to individuals in non-profit social and environmental service roles, veterans, and youth from under-resourced communities.
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Veteran & Youth Programs
Through our foundation, we offer free programs to youth in under-resourced communities and to people who work in service roles, like veterans, nurses, and teachers.
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The Open Circle Experience
Discover the unique qualities that set our programs apart from other professional and personal development classes and events.
Nature Informed
Using nature as a guide, we align your goals with the broader landscape of human experience to build clarity and confidence.
Hands-On Learning
We offer hands-on, human-centered learning with a mix of online resources and live experiences, where you can apply principles in real-world scenarios.
Expert Facilitators
Our facilitators have a mix of academic credentials and practical experience, ensuring a well-rounded and well informed experience.
Collective Wisdom
We work with the collective wisdom of our participants to enrich the learning experience and to foster connection.
Facilitators
At its core, Open Circle’s philosophy is about helping people become the best version of themselves. It’s not just another feel-good experience that fades away; people walk away with important answers, profound shifts, and a renewed sense of self.
- Atz Kilcher, Founder, Heroes Healing Homestead
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