Online Foundational Circle Training

FOUNDATIONAL TRAINING: This training teaches the basic components of Circle Keeping, as well as give everyone an experience of being in circle. We cover both community building and building safety in a circle, basic processes and prompts. By the end of this training, each student should be ready to hold a simple circle on their own in a safe setting. This training goes deep and while this training is a mix of Hidden Water Keepers in-training and participants coming to learn for their own personal or professional reasons, topics of child sexual abuse or other traumas may come up. Ted Wallach Bio Ted Before Circle: Ted Wallach cut his teeth under Martin Scorsese. Then he Directed and produced movies for over a decade in Bollywood, Hollywood, the Middle East, and Europe. The original Creative Director of WeWork, Ted, created campaigns for ending oil subsidies to building wells in Africa with Charity Water. After working with several marketing agencies in NYC, he created The AMEX Trifecta of Upward Mobility with the ‘Small Business Saturday’ team. He became CSO and then CEO of TimeRepublik, a global digital time bank. He returned to THNK: School for Creative Leaders, where he did his post-graduate work as an expert in residence, supporting fledgling ventures with digital alternative currency strategies. Ted Since Circle: Ted was trained and still studies with Elizabeth Clemants. After being certified by Elizabeth and studying advanced Circle keeping under Kay Pranis, he developed his version of Circle for Men as a visiting scholar at Stanford's Peace Innovation Lab and brought this work to the United Nations. As a coach, he teaches his clients this work to bring to their families, communities, companies, and beyond because of its profound and lasting effect on relationships and communication. Elizabeth Clemants Bio Elizabeth is a social worker at heart. She has always been interested in the intersection of social issues and the law. She attended Columbia University School of Social Work where she graduated with a MSW and a Minor in Law. She immediately went to work in the field of conflict resolution and has been practicing alternative dispute resolution (ADR) since 1997. Elizabeth is the Executive Director of Hidden Water, a restorative justice response to childhood sexual abuse, a non-profit she founded in 2014. Elizabeth is also the Founder and Principal Trainer at Planning Change, whose mission it is to educate and empower individuals to affect meaningful change in the conflicts around them. In addition to those endeavors, Elizabeth has been an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School since 2005. She works as a professional mediator and speaks regularly at events and conferences. She lives with her husband and three children in Brooklyn.