framed minds circles
you already hold a circle. bring it home.
There is a group of people who already turn to you — a team, a nonprofit, an ERG, a ministry, a cohort, a room that meets on Tuesdays. You've been holding them with whatever tools you could find.
Bring them here instead. We'll give your circle a home inside Framed Minds, and you hold it as a Circle Holder.
what a circle actually is.
a room inside framed minds. Your circle is a real space on the platform — its own home, its own conversation, its own gatherings and prompts. Private if you want it private. Open to the wider community if you'd rather grow.
you hold it. we hold you. You set the tone, decide who's in, and choose the rhythm. We handle the platform, the tools, the safety infrastructure, and the questions you didn't know to ask about holding a room well.
the frame system underneath. Your people arrive with a shared language for what they're carrying. That's the part you can't build yourself, and it's the reason a circle here goes deeper than a group chat ever will.
This isn't us doing you a favor. Circles are how this community becomes real — and the people you bring arrive already trusting someone. That's worth more to us than a marketing budget.
who this is for
groups that already exist.
We're not asking you to build a community. You have one. We're asking you to bring it somewhere that can hold it properly.
the nonprofit
mission-driven organizations
You serve people through hard things and your staff absorbs all of it. You've never had the budget for a well-being platform, and the free options were never built for the weight your team carries.
this may be you ifyour team gives everything to the mission and you've quietly worried about what it's costing them.
the erg or affinity group
employee resource & belonging groups
You gather people around shared identity and experience, on top of a full-time job, usually with a modest budget and a lot of heart.
this may be you ifyour members show up for each other and you've wanted somewhere better than a channel and a monthly invite.
the team
managers & small teams
You lead a group that's been through something — growth, loss, restructuring, a hard year — and you want a space that isn't another standing meeting.
this may be you ifyou've felt the difference between a team that talks and a team that's honest, and you want the second one.
leading a team at work?Frames at Work for Teams is built for you: free for up to five people, with plans up to 30, and never used to hire, rate or rank anyone. Circles stay the home for groups that gather.
the gathering
faith, recovery, community & cohorts
You already hold a room: a small group, a circle, a chapter, a class, a cohort that meets and matters. You need infrastructure, not a philosophy.
this may be you ifyour group exists in someone's phone contacts and a shared doc, and it deserves better.
the facilitator
coaches, counselors & practitioners
You do this work professionally and you've wanted a container for the people you serve — something between sessions, something with structure.
this may be you ifyou've been building your own version of this and would rather spend that time on the people.
the circle we haven't named
something else entirely
You read all of the above and thought: mine isn't listed. Good. We're new enough that some of the most important circles here will arrive as shapes we didn't know to describe.
this may be you ifyou already know who your people are and you're willing to name the circle yourself in your application.
plainly
what's included, and what isn't.
We'd rather be clear now than have you discover the boundary later. Here's the whole picture.
with circle holder
your circle
- Your own space on the platform — private or open, your call.
- Discussion threads, guided prompts, and shared reflections.
- Gatherings and events hosted inside your circle.
- A Frame Table for your circle: six of your members seated by their Frames for a guided dinner. The first tables are in Dallas.
- Circle Holder tools: membership, moderation, and rhythm, part of your Circle Holder add-on.
- A free Explorer account for everyone you bring, to join your Circle, read, react, and come to gatherings open to everyone.
- The Introductory Self-Inventory for your members.
- Guidance from us on holding the room well.
separate from the circle
everything else
- navigator: the Full Self-Inventory, the full curriculum, deeper work with Echo, and posting in your Circle and the community. Individual, optional, and their own decision.
- your own platform — custom branding, a dedicated instance, custom assessments, your own mobile app. That's the organizations tier.
We won't pressure your people. No one gets sold to inside your circle — if they go deeper, it's because the work earned it.
how it works
four steps, and none of them are a sales call.
tell us about your circle
Who your people are, what you gather around, and roughly how many. A few honest paragraphs, not a proposal. Every application is read by a person.
we set the room
If it's a fit, we build your circle: the space, the settings, the privacy you asked for, and a starting set of prompts shaped to your group.
bring your people
You invite them. They join free as Explorers: they can join your Circle, read, react, and come to gatherings open to everyone. Navigator opens posting in your Circle and Navigators-only gatherings. We'll give you an invitation you can send as-is, so you're not writing the pitch yourself.
gather, and keep gathering
The circle is yours to hold. We check in, share what's working in other circles, and stay reachable when you hit something you'd rather not handle alone.
what we ask of you
welcome, but not casual.
The price is plain. There is also a threshold. Holding a room where people are honest about their inner lives is real work, and we only hand that room to people who understand what they're taking on.
do the work first
Take the Introductory Self-Inventory and walk the Welcome Course yourself before you invite anyone. You can't hold this for others until it has held you. It's the same threshold we ask of everyone who builds Framed Minds.
take the Introductory Self-Inventoryshow up for your people
A circle with no one tending it becomes another dead channel, and that costs your people something. We'd rather have five living circles than fifty abandoned ones.
keep the room safe
Everyone follows the community standards. What's shared in a circle stays in it. And if someone is genuinely struggling, you point them toward real help — we'll make sure you know exactly how.
before you apply
the questions we'd ask too.
what does it cost to hold a circle?
Circle Holder is $19 a month (or $192 a year), on Explorer or Navigator. On Explorer, you host gatherings open to everyone. Creating a Circle of your own, and holding gatherings for your Circle or for Navigators only, come with Navigator. On Navigator you may also charge for a gathering, and you keep 80% of each ticket.
We read every application because we're small, and we'd rather support a few circles well than many badly.
what's the catch?
The honest answer: your circle brings people to Framed Minds who arrive already trusting you, and some of them will eventually want the deeper work. That's the whole business logic, and we'd rather say it out loud than pretend this is charity.
What it isn't: we won't market to your members inside your circle, we won't sell or share your group's data, and no one is required to pay anything to join Framed Minds.
do my members have to pay?
Not to join. Everyone you bring can join free as an Explorer, take the Introductory Self-Inventory, join your Circle, read and react there and in the community, and come to gatherings open to everyone. Navigator opens posting in your Circle and the community, Navigators-only gatherings, the full curriculum and deeper work with Echo. It's individual, optional, and entirely their decision.
can our circle be private?
Yes. You can run a fully private circle that's invisible to the wider community, an open one that anyone can request to join, or something in between. You choose at setup and you can change it later.
how big can a circle be?
We're starting with circles up to around fifty people, because that's the size where a room can still be a room. If your group is larger, tell us in the application — we'd rather talk it through than turn you away over a number.
what if we outgrow this?
Then we'll talk about a platform of your own — your branding, your assessments, your mobile app. Plenty of organizations should start as a circle and see whether the work lands before anyone signs anything.
who's behind this?
Framed Minds was built by a very small team around a single idea: there's a reason you do that, and because it was learned, it can change. The Frame System draws on cognitive reappraisal, IFS, ACT, Jeffrey Young's schema model, and attachment research, translated out of academic language and into something a person can actually use on a Tuesday.
the application
tell us who you gather.
This isn't a form that disappears into a queue. Tell us plainly who your people are, what you gather around, and why now. We read every application and we answer every one — including the ones we say no to.
If the timing isn't right, we'll tell you honestly and keep the door open.
“Remember who you are beneath who you became.” Bring the people who need to hear it from someone they already trust.
your application has arrived.
It will be read by a person — slowly, on purpose. A confirmation is on its way to your inbox, and whatever the answer, you'll hear back from us directly.
Remember who you are beneath who you became.