BFC Around the Holidays Part 1: Orienting ourselves to the season In November, BFC Hosts around the country talked about what it means to host a Circle during the winter holidays. This is part one of a two-part post. Why this discussion? Regardless of what we celebrate or how we gather, many of… Read more »
Name: Julie Weinstein Hometown: Greenwood Village, CO Circle Start Date: July 2019 What do you do when you’re not running a Ben Franklin Circle and what prompted you to start one? I host another conversation group that I call Civil Conversations. It’s a bit different than the BFC format in that we meet biweekly, it’s… Read more »
Circle Host Caroline Sayre and her Seattle-based Circle explore a new set of virtues. My Seattle Ben Franklin Circle has now traveled through the arc of Franklin’s 13 virtues – from temperance to humility. Through our Circle conversations, we’ve explored how these virtues intersect with our lives and our society. We discussed homelessness… Read more »
Name: Bethany Skinner Hometown: Delano MN Start Date: April 8th 2019 What do you do when you’re not running a Ben Franklin Circle? I am an occupational therapist by training. Right now I am raising my two kids. We have a 4-year-old girl, a 2-year-old boy, and one due in February. I volunteer at… Read more »
Join an information session for new and prospective hosts. Offered every 2nd Friday of the month. REGISTER HERE Many thanks to the members of the Ben Franklin Circle in Ojai CA who wrote this profile of their Circle together. When asked what prompted that approach, Host Michele Houghtaling said, “the… Read more »
Circle Host Caroline Sayre shares her reflections on the experience of starting and hosting a BFC. I found out about the Ben Franklin Circles in the April 8, 2018 issue of the New Yorker. The first paragraph of the article (“Ben Franklin Invented The Chat Room,”) caught my eye: ‘‘The rules that I drew… Read more »