Circles of Support
We love circle metaphors, right?
You know…the circle of life, like in the Lion King?
The circle is both an image and a metaphor of completeness and equality.
A circle is a container, a vessel of protection and safety whose boundary helps encourage sharing and confidentiality.
A circle is a powerful thing, and we use it often to express complex concepts.
“To come full circle”
“To go around in circles”
“To circle the wagons”
“To circle back around”
“Circle of influence”
Powerful images of circles: clocks, wheels, rings, coins, compass, life buoy, medicine wheel…
It tells us that everything is just going to keep going round and round and come back again so that we can enjoy it more, try it again and get better or just know that we are not hitting a dead end.
This all leads to my idea about having a “Circle of Support”. This could be people and/or things that we surround ourselves with in order to feel complete and like we are enough.
From now until the end of the semester, it is a whirlwind of demands for teachers.
We have got to have our circle of support together to help us get through the holidays, the end of the semester and the end of another calendar year!
So, who can be in your circle of support?
