Working in Circle develops attention to the fact of producing together and creates the conditions necessary for everyone to be an actor in the events. The practice of the Circle favours the circulation of ideas, facilitates the sharing of knowledge, makes experiences more dynamic, improves involvement and strongly reinforces the links between co-actors in the situations experienced.
The rules of the Circle constitute a structuring and reassuring framework within which everyone can express themselves freely. The framework is not rigid; it can evolve and change as needs emerge from the reflection and experience of the Circle.
The experience of the Circle invites everyone to work on questioning our behaviour and our relationship to communication, responsibility, sovereignty, power and authority. The challenge is also to propose an alternative to the classic pyramidal mode of governance made up of a more or less formal combination of majority votes and autocratic decisions.
This is why two other modes of decision making are recommended in order to best fuel the activation of Collective Intelligence.
