Circle Lab: Making Meaning in Seasons of Change

Circle Lab: Making Meaning in Seasons of Change
June 10th, 4pm – 5pm PST

There are moments in life when the way we’ve been making sense of the world stops working quite the same way.
Nothing may be obviously wrong. The work still matters. Our values still hold. But something feels strained, as if the identity or framework that once guided us no longer quite fits the complexity of what we’re facing.

Developmental psychologists describe these moments as thresholds- places where our existing way of understanding ourselves and the world begins to reach its limits.

Crossing a threshold doesn’t mean abandoning who we are. It means expanding how we hold our identity, our values, and our perspective.

At the same time, these changes rarely happen in isolation. Human systems also move through cycles - periods of experimentation, growth, questioning, contribution, and renewal. When we misunderstand the season we’re in, we often push for the wrong kind of action.
We demand certainty when exploration is needed.We push for productivity when reorientation is required.

This Circle Lab invites us to explore how personal development and collective cycles intersect.
Together we’ll explore:

• How developmental thresholds appear in our lives and leadership
• Why identities that once served us can begin to feel constraining
• How individuals and organizations move through cycles of growth and renewal
• What becomes possible when we recognize the season we’re actually in

This conversation also marks the final Circle Lab of this season as we take a pause for summer.

As always, Circle Lab is a space to slow down, reflect with peers, and notice what life might be asking of us now.

Circle Lab: Making Meaning in Seasons of Change
📅 June 10
🕓 4pm – 5pm PST USA
🌐 Free & Online

Circle Lab is offered free of charge. Donations are welcome and help support our nonprofit work of reweaving community and cultivating spaces for collective learning and connection.
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What Is Circle Lab?

Circle Lab is a monthly space to pause, reflect, and connect with peers navigating complexity, change, and impact in their organizations and communities. Each session explores a shared inquiry related to leadership, collaboration, and human systems through dialogue, reflection, and collective sensemaking.

At Open Circle, we believe meaningful change begins not with rushing to act, but with learning how to listen—together.