Team Agreements

A restorative practices circle for building shared expectations, boundaries, and ways of working together.

Create a stronger foundation for teamwork by helping people name what they need, agree on how they want to show up, and build accountability together.

Key benefits

✔ Build shared expectations before conflict or confusion grows
✔ Help teams name boundaries, values, and communication needs
✔ Create a practical foundation for meetings, projects, and collaboration

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Quick Facts About Team Agreements

This course is available in:
- Live Online Format - We facilitate the course on Zoom.
- Live Onsite Format — We come to your office, school, conference, or community space and facilitate the circle in person.
- Live Onsite | Live Online — 50 minutes to 3 hours
- Each session is customized and tailored to the community, goals, and time available.
- Staff teams
- Supervisors and managers
- Leadership teams
- Boards and committees
- School teams and district staff
- Conference groups and retreat participants
- Cross-functional teams starting a new project
- Any team or community that wants to build a stronger foundation for how they work together
Recommended Group Sizes
- 5–50 participants
- Smaller groups allow for deeper reflection and dialogue
- Larger groups can be facilitated with customized structures depending on time and goals

What Team Agreements Teaches

Team Agreements is a restorative practices circle experience that helps teams and communities explore what they value, what they need, and how they want to exist together.

This circle gives participants a structured way to identify the conditions that support trust, respect, accountability, and collaboration. Rather than assuming everyone has the same expectations, the process helps a group slow down and name what matters most around teamwork, meetings, communication, and shared space.

Participants begin with an exploration round, where they reflect on questions connected to values, needs, expectations, and boundaries. From there, the group moves into an agreement round, where participants collectively identify and commit to the agreements they want upheld in order to work well together.

This circle is often the starting point for a team or community because it creates the foundation for everything that follows. Before team building, problem solving, or hard conversations, people first need shared clarity on how they want to engage.

Pillar 1: Values and Needs Exploration

Participants reflect on what helps them feel respected, heard, included, and able to participate fully.

Pillar 2: Shared Agreements and Boundaries

The group identifies the expectations, norms, and boundaries they want to hold together.

Pillar 3: Collective Accountability

Participants move beyond ideas into commitment by agreeing on how the community will uphold the agreements going forward.

Learning Outcomes

Identify the values and needs that support healthy teamwork and collaboration.
Reflect on the conditions that help them participate honestly, respectfully, and effectively.
Name boundaries and expectations that can strengthen meetings, communication, and project work.
Contribute to a shared set of team or community agreements.
Build a stronger foundation for accountability, trust, and future restorative conversations.

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Tools Participants Learn

Participants leave with practical tools including:

Team agreements framework
Values and needs reflection prompts
Boundary-setting language
Shared expectations process
Restorative circle participation structure
Community accountability language for upholding agreements

Who is Team Agreements for?

This training is Ideal For

Teams that are just beginning to work together
Groups that need clearer expectations for meetings or communication
Teams preparing for a new project, initiative, retreat, or conference
Communities where boundaries are often unclear or overstepped
Organizations that want to create a healthier culture before tension escalates
Groups seeking a restorative foundation before discussion circles, team building, or conflict dialogue

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Available Training Formats

Live Online Training
Facilitated workshop delivered via Zoom.

Live Onsite Training
Facilitated workshop delivered in person at your site.

Each option can be customized for your team.

Testimonials

“This helped our team slow down and actually talk about what we each need in order to work well together. It gave us language for respect, listening, and accountability that we now use in our meetings.”

High School Principal

“We realized we had been assuming shared expectations without ever naming them. This circle helped us create agreements that felt honest, practical, and supportive.”