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THE SUPPORT CIRCLE
You are not the only one sitting with this.
A quarterly gathering for parents and educators navigating the same questions.
Online or in person. Four times a year — one gathering per season. A space designed for honest conversation. Not a support group. Not a workshop.
WHO IT'S FOR
Two chairs at the same table
For parents and guardians
● You're holding questions about your child's learning that no one else seems to be holding.
● You've read, searched, asked — and still feel alone in the decisions.
● You want a room where you don't have to explain the whole story first.
● You're tired of advice. You want company.
● You want to hear how other parents are actually doing it.
For Professionals
● You care deeply, and the care is starting to weigh.
● You're navigating students whose needs don't fit the system you work in.
● You want to think out loud with people who understand the work.
● You're looking for language, not lectures.
● You want to leave with one thing you can actually use on Monday.
The shape of the gathering
01
Know
We open together. Who's in the room. What we're carrying.
Each person names one thing — said out loud, witnessed, no fixing.
See
02
We go into one shared theme. Honest, not performed.
Plan
03
One specific thing to take home — named, owned, ready to act on.
Build
04
We close in gratitude. The community holds.
Hold
05
Online or in person. ASELearn facilitates. Sometimes a guest joins.
WHAT YOU LEAVE WITH
Four things, every time
Something you didn't know walking in — named, clear, yours to keep.
Knowledge
Structure
A frame for what you're carrying — so it stops being a fog.
Clarity
Less noise. One thing in focus. The next honest step.
A Plan
Not a generic checklist — one specific move you've already started in the room.
FOUR TIME A YEAR
One gathering per season
Beginning again — what we're carrying into the year.
Spring
Summer
Pause and pattern — naming what's actually happening.
Fall
Settling in — what's working, what isn't, what needs to shift.
Winter
Closing the year in community — together, not alone.
NOW THE ROOM IS HELD
Not an expert at the front. Someone holding the thread — and stepping back so the room can speak.
The Circle is facilitated, not lectured. The shape is held; the conversation belongs to the people in it. Sometimes a guest joins. Most often, the room is enough.
“It's the simplicity --- the down to earth and quietness that she approached things. It was easy working with everyone. I understood without being told that one doesn't have to talk much, be in the center of things, or be seen to have impact. You can get things done in quietness. My experience.”
Sara T. --I'm not a Parent (yet) or an Educator. But I
loved the meeting and took something back with me.
"The families who close the year in community carry something the ones who close it alone do not."
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