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Explore CircleUp Education’s complete catalog by topic. Each collection highlights core trainings with dedicated detail pages, followed by additional learning options so you can see the full range of what we offer.
Cultural Competency
Build cultural humility, communicate across differences, and put competency into practice.
These trainings move beyond surface-level awareness by helping participants examine culture, identity, language, norms, values, power, and the everyday communication choices that shape trust and inclusion.
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Crossed Culture™
Examine the intersection of culture and bias, identify hidden assumptions, and learn to navigate cultural misunderstandings without stereotyping, moralizing, or escalating harm.
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Accessible Language in Action™
Learn practical ways to reduce jargon, tailor communication, improve understanding, and engage diverse populations with greater clarity and respect.
More InformationUnraveling Cultural Threads™
Explore how cultural identity, norms, beliefs, and values shape interactions, expectations, and the ways people interpret one another.
More InformationCultural Competency Conversations™
Practice dialogue skills that support cultural curiosity, active listening, self-awareness, cultural humility, and more inclusive relationships.
More InformationCultural Competency in Action™
Apply cultural competency and humility through practical engagement tools, reflective activities, and relationship-building protocols.
More InformationDEI & Workplace Culture
Strengthen inclusion with practical, shame-free tools for recognizing and interrupting bias.
This collection brings CircleUp’s implicit bias, disability, gender, person-centered, systems, and future-focused DEI trainings into one clear section. Legacy Diversity Uncovered and Conscious Conversations listings are intentionally replaced by their newer courses.
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MindTrench™
Explore how explicit and implicit biases, stereotypes, and automatic associations form—and how they can shape workplace behavior, decisions, relationships, and access.
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Mirage™
Make hidden assumptions easier to recognize and practice a self-interruption process for slowing down before implicit bias causes exclusion or harm.
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The Call-In Card™
Learn a structured, non-confrontational conversation process for clarifying questionable comments or actions, interrupting bias, and creating space for accountability and growth.
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Implicitly Yours™
Build a shared foundation for understanding implicit bias, explicit bias, discrimination, and microaggressions in workplace and service settings.
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Disability Uncovered™
Recognize disability-related bias and discrimination, examine how ableism appears in language and systems, and strengthen respectful, accessible practices.
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Gender Uncovered™
Explore gender identity and expression, reduce assumptions, practice inclusive language, and strengthen respectful workplace communication.
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PersonCentrik™
Apply person-centered thinking through an equity and bias-aware lens so plans, goals, language, and recommendations better reflect each person’s voice, identity, and lived experience.
More InformationBiasBlitz™
Design practical bias-awareness reinforcements, reminders, tools, and team habits that extend learning beyond a one-time training and support ongoing behavior change.
More InformationBiascend™ Systems of Power
Examine how bias can become embedded in policies, systems, practices, and decision-making—and identify the power each person can use to interrupt inequity.
More InformationFutureProof DEI™
Review current DEI programs for hidden risks, legal concerns, unintended exclusion, and opportunities to strengthen equity without losing the initiative’s purpose.
More InformationFutureSense DEI™
Clarify essential DEI terms and concepts in practical, respectful language so teams can engage the work with less confusion, shame, or unnecessary controversy.
More InformationFutureForm DEI™
Build or refresh a sustainable, discrimination-free DEI committee with clear purpose, roles, norms, governance, communication practices, and accountability.
More InformationThe CivilRise Collection™
Explore protected classes, discrimination, racism, gender bias, ableism, religious discrimination, workplace inequities, and practical ways to interrupt illegal or unethical practices.
More InformationDEI Foundations
Create shared language, surface concerns, and establish what staff need before launching broader DEI, anti-discrimination, or workplace-culture initiatives.
More InformationSpecialized DEI Training
A highly customized training that adapts CircleUp’s existing DEI content to your organization’s starting point, audience, sector, goals, and assessment findings.
More InformationEquity & Fairness
Clarify what fairness requires when people, systems, and starting points are different.
These trainings help participants distinguish equity from equality, identify hidden barriers, assess policies and practices, and make more thoughtful decisions without stereotyping or lowering standards.
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The EquiScope Lens™
Use a practical equity tool to scan policies, procedures, meetings, plans, and everyday practices for bias, blind spots, uneven starting points, and barriers to fairness.
More InformationUnraveling Equity
Build empathy for different starting points and perspectives while developing an equity lens for assessing actions, behaviors, decisions, and policies.
More InformationEquity-ish™
Explore the difference between equity and equality, how bias creates invisible barriers, and how to pursue fair, ethical, and legally sound solutions.
More InformationRace & Racism Trainings
Build the knowledge, language, and capacity to discuss race and interrupt racism responsibly.
This collection explores racism awareness, race-based bias, privilege and power, interpersonal and structural racism, difficult conversations, and the responses that can prevent people from staying engaged.
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Journey Through Racism Awareness
Use reflective archetypes to explore different stages of racism awareness, build empathy across starting points, and strengthen compassion during difficult learning conversations.
More InformationRacism Uncovered Training™
Examine racism, emotional impact, privilege, power, and the relationship between internalized, interpersonal, institutional, and structural forms of harm.
More InformationRace & Racism Conversations™
Develop language and practical conversation skills for defining, discussing, and responding to race and racism with greater confidence and care.
More InformationDissonance Responses
Identify common dissonance responses that arise during race and equity conversations, understand where they come from, and practice strategies for interrupting them.
More InformationStructural Racism in the Workplace
Identify explicit and implicit structural racism in workplace systems, process its impact, and apply analysis tools to interrupt discriminatory patterns.
More InformationRestorative Justice
Develop restorative systems, conversations, circle design, preparation, and facilitation skills.
CircleUp’s restorative justice collection supports practitioners, schools, agencies, workplaces, and communities that want structured ways to build relationships, assess conflict, prepare participants, respond to harm, and strengthen accountability.
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CircleRestora™ Restorative Justice Systems
Examine justice, accountability, harm, values, and the organizational systems needed to build and sustain restorative practice with greater consistency and integrity.
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CircleRestora™ Restorative Justice Values
Explore the values that make restorative practice meaningful and how beliefs about fairness, relationships, accountability, harm, and repair shape decisions.
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CircleCraft™ Relationship Circles Training
Learn to design and facilitate community-agreement, value-exploration, discussion, and team-building circles that deepen trust, connection, and shared understanding.
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CircleCraft™ Relationship Circles Design Guide Companion Course
Use CircleCraft’s structured process to create intentional relationship-building circles for teams, classrooms, workplaces, and communities.
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CircleCraft™ Conflict Circles Training
Assess readiness, design a conflict circle around participant needs, and practice facilitating restorative conversations for low- to medium-intensity conflict.
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CircleCraft™ Conflict Circles: Pre-Circle Assessment & Preparation
Learn the one-on-one preparation practice used to assess conflict, identify risks and readiness, prepare participants, and gather what is needed to design a safer circle.
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OpenStep™ Restorative Conversations
Use active listening, empathy, validation, restorative questions, and needs-based next steps to help people process difficult moments without rushing to fix them.
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Specialized Restorative Practices Training
A customized restorative justice or restorative practices training built around your team’s experience level, needs, challenges, sector, and implementation goals.
More InformationCircleRestora™ Relationship Circles — Two-Day Training
An in-depth, hands-on experience in relationship-circle structure, design, facilitation, troubleshooting, participant engagement, and adapting circles to a specific context.
More InformationRestorative Conversations: Essentials Course
Build foundational restorative communication skills for listening, paraphrasing, de-escalating tension, asking open-ended questions, and guiding needs-based next steps.
More InformationRestorative Conversations: Essentials + Advanced Practice
Extend foundational learning through structured practice, scenarios, quizzes, advanced paraphrasing, conflict assessment, and full restorative-conversation application.
More InformationRestorative Discipline in Schools
Explore restorative justice, suspension, staff and community buy-in, and how restorative approaches can support discipline and school climate.
More InformationSocial-Emotional Learning & Restorative Practices in Schools
Connect the five social-emotional learning competencies with restorative practice to better understand behavior, belonging, empathy, and student support needs.
More InformationCommunication Training
Make everyday communication clearer, more respectful, and easier to use under pressure.
These skill-based trainings strengthen listening, clarification, relationship-building, feedback, customer communication, emotional regulation, boundaries, and the conversations that prevent misunderstandings from becoming larger problems.
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MyStyle™
Explore workplace communication and conflict styles so team members can better understand differences, reduce misinterpretation, and cooperate more effectively.
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The Call-In Card™
Use a conscious-conversation protocol to seek clarity, interrupt questionable behavior, reduce unnecessary escalation, and support accountability without shame.
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Customer Support Conversations™
Navigate difficult client, vendor, and public-facing conversations while maintaining boundaries, managing pressure, protecting relationships, and meeting service expectations.
More InformationColleague Support Conversations
Use emotional-intelligence techniques to create a more supportive workplace and respond more skillfully when coworkers are struggling or need to be heard.
More InformationClarifying Conversations
Ask thoughtful questions in moments of confusion or discomfort, replace assumptions with curiosity, and seek understanding before reacting or escalating.
More InformationRelationship Inclusion Strategies & Approaches
Practice one-on-one, small-group, and large-group tools that strengthen trust, authentic connection, team morale, and inclusive collaboration.
More InformationAnti-Bullying in Action
Distinguish workplace bullying from conflict or poor communication, identify subtle and overt patterns, and respond without mislabeling or escalating harm.
More InformationEmotions at Work: Navigating Feelings for a Healthier Workplace
Understand how emotions influence behavior, practice regulation and expression skills, set boundaries, and respond to emotional feedback with empathy and accountability.
More InformationConflict Resolution
Address tension earlier, reduce escalation, and build shared processes for working through conflict.
This collection focuses on conflict lenses and styles, difficult-conversation frameworks, restorative assessment, mediator development, and practical tools teams can use before conflict becomes a formal complaint or long-running breakdown.
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MeanWell™
CircleUp’s signature conflict-conversation training helps staff explore intention versus impact, address tension early, and use a clear protocol for difficult workplace conversations.
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BaseStep™
Practice listening, paraphrasing, restorative questions, and needs-based next steps while replacing gossip, quick advice, and unhelpful side-taking with more constructive support.
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Conflict Restora™ Mediator
Develop conflict assessment, communication, mediation, facilitation, and resolution skills for workplace, organizational, and community settings.
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Conflict Conversations
Build a shared process for initiating respectful conflict conversations, interrupting assumptions, reducing defensiveness, and moving from avoidance toward constructive action.
More InformationConflict Styles & Conflict Conversations
Identify personal and cultural conflict styles, build empathy for differences, and practice strategies for navigating style clashes using a structured conversation process.
More InformationSpoke-In-The-Wheel™
Learn practical peer-to-peer conflict communication and repair skills that reduce unnecessary dependence on supervisors or HR for lower-level conflict resolution.
More InformationLeadership & Management
Help leaders communicate expectations, guide change, build trust, and respond to difficult moments with confidence.
These trainings support managers, supervisors, HR professionals, directors, and emerging leaders in civility, inclusion, feedback, boundaries, team norms, belonging, change leadership, trust, and organizational accountability.
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BackTalk™
Strengthen feedback, redirection, boundaries, and accountability while reducing defensiveness and adapting communication across power, identity, and cultural differences.
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ChatterMatter™
Help managers build everyday belonging through intentional communication, inclusive team rituals, recognition, cultural responsiveness, and stronger relationship habits.
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Leadership During Challenging Times™
Strengthen leadership communication, trust, judgment, and team support during uncertainty, pressure, crisis, and other difficult organizational moments.
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Leading Through Constant Change
Communicate change more clearly, reduce resistance, build trust and buy-in, and support the human side of transitions with greater confidence.
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Team Agreements
Facilitate shared expectations, values, boundaries, and accountability practices that guide meetings, communication, collaboration, and recovery after conflict or change.
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BeTeam™
A restorative team-building experience that strengthens trust, empathy, connection, collaboration, and the relationships that help teams work well together.
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Workplace Civility: Addressing Discrimination through Awareness, Roles & Procedures
Help managers, supervisors, and HR professionals strengthen workplace civility, recognize unlawful discrimination, understand leadership responsibilities, and support fair reporting processes.
More InformationLeadership Excellence in Action: Relationship & Inclusion Strategies
Equip leaders with practical ways to build connection, inclusion, belonging, and stronger relationships across teams.
More InformationLeadership Excellence in Action: Refining Feedback Skills & Strengthening Boundaries
Develop clearer feedback, healthier boundaries, and more confident communication with employees, clients, and community members.
More InformationLeadership Interactions: Expectations & Difficult Conversations through a Cultural Competency Lens
Assess team climate, set expectations, discuss values, and use a simple protocol for difficult conversations across diverse backgrounds and experiences.
More InformationCIVIL-ity At Best™
Connect workplace civility, equal-employment responsibilities, psychological safety, respectful conduct, reporting systems, and everyday leadership accountability.
More InformationNormALL Values™
Co-create team expectations, distinguish agreements from rules and norms, and practice values-based approaches to difficult conversations and emotionally charged moments.
More InformationTrust Talk™
Guide team conversations about what trust means, how it is built or damaged, and what team members need in order to strengthen it.
More InformationTeam Players
Explore how individual habits, roles, expectations, and working styles affect the way people cooperate and contribute on a team.
More InformationMindfulness & Stress Reduction
Create space for movement, grounding, reflection, resilience, and collective care.
These experiential sessions help participants release physical tension, return to the present moment, expand perspective, process workplace stress, and build personalized or team-based wellness practices.
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Embodied Stress Release
Use guided movement, strengthening, stretching, holds, and dynamic flow to release tension and cultivate greater physical ease.
More InformationTech-Friendly Tension Relief
Practice accessible desk and chair stretches for the shoulders, neck, back, eyes, and other areas affected by long periods of screen time.
More InformationSensory Grounding Mindfulness
Use breath, aroma, sound, singing bowls, and ocean drums to engage the senses, support focus, and return attention to the present moment.
More InformationStretch & Expand
Connect physical flexibility with personal growth by using stretching as a practical metaphor for expanding perspective and moving through discomfort.
More InformationCollective Care: Team-Building Experience
Process shared workplace stressors, explore collective self-care, and create accountability practices that support sustainable individual and team well-being.
More InformationBespoke Wellness Journey
Create a customized wellness experience combining movement, mindfulness, sensory practices, and other approaches around your team’s stressors and goals.
More InformationFacilitated Circles, Meetings & Experiences
Bring in a CircleUp facilitator for structured dialogue, relationship-building, reflection, and restorative response.
These are facilitated experiences rather than consulting services. CircleUp leads the process for your group, helping participants discuss values, build relationships, process complex topics, assess conflict, repair trust, or engage community stakeholders.
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Discussion Circles / Discussion Meeting Facilitation
Use a structured circle to discuss, reflect on, and process a core topic connected to relationships, trauma, resilience, race, social-emotional learning, or current events.
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Community Agreement & Value Exploration Meeting
Discuss team values and needs, translate values into specific actions, and create shared expectations that support trust, partnership, and collaboration.
More InformationTeam Building Circle / Meeting Facilitation
Engage staff in structured activities that build trust, deepen relationships, strengthen team dynamics, and explore communication or conflict styles.
More InformationSolution Circles / Restorative Justice Solution Circle Facilitation
Address complex, high-intensity conflict involving multiple stakeholders through a structured restorative process focused on impact, needs, accountability, and next steps.
More InformationRestorative Circles to Rebuild Damaged Teams
Process the impact of conflict on trust, team dynamics, and relationships while helping the group identify what is needed to move forward.
More InformationRestorative Justice Incident Assessment Practice
A facilitated assessment process that explores root causes, impact, readiness, and needs-based next steps before deciding how the conflict should proceed.
More InformationRestorative Justice Mindful Meeting Practice
A facilitated restorative process for medium- to high-intensity incidents involving two or three stakeholders.
More InformationCommunity Town Hall
A moderated conversation that helps government leaders, organizations, stakeholders, and community members discuss sensitive issues and process their impact.
More InformationProfessional Development & Retreats
Create a customized learning or retreat experience for staff, emerging leaders, and youth.
These flexible experiences combine skill development, team connection, reflection, celebration, values, onboarding, communication, conflict resolution, and other topics around the needs of your group.
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Team Building Retreat
Help new or established teams strengthen interpersonal dynamics, deepen relationships, build trust, and practice skills that improve the way they work together.
More InformationProfessional Development for Adults
Build practical workplace skills in communication, conflict resolution, active listening, anti-bullying, customer service, civility, and related areas.
More InformationProfessional Development for Youth & Young Adults
Strengthen communication, conflict resolution, active listening, anti-bullying, positive social interaction, and early leadership skills for younger participants.
More InformationStaff Retreats
Build trust, explore team values and norms, process difficult topics or transitions, celebrate achievements, and support the onboarding of new staff or leaders.
More InformationRetreats for Young Leaders
Help emerging leaders build trust, align around shared values and goals, navigate challenges, celebrate milestones, and grow as a cohesive leadership group.
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