Adam and Miriam co-founded Open Circle in 2017. They are experts in transformational education, specializing in participatory leadership.

Over the past ten years, they’ve trained hundreds of leaders in guiding change and worked with a wide range of organizations and industries. Through this work, they’ve distilled core principles and methodologies for guiding transformation in individuals and groups, grounded in an ecosystem model for change.

Open Circle’s participatory leadership expertise includes:

• Listening Circle facilitation and training

• Certified Council Training

• Group shadow exploration

• Dynamic governance and group decision-making

• Guiding rites of passage

• Power intelligence

• Immunity to change

• Somatic trauma processes

They have worked deliberately with organizations, communities, and leaders across diverse environments and cultural contexts, including:

• Government, military, and community collaborations

• Veterans and first responders

• At-risk youth and associated nonprofits

• Peer recovery coaches and mentors

• Environmental organizations and networks

• Startups and high-growth businesses

• Mergers and acquisitions

• Grassroots community action movements

• Religious and spiritual communities, including priests and military chaplains

• Graduate psychology programs

• Health professionals

• Prisons

• International guide and facilitation networks