Create a room
Name the circle, set an optional timer, and prepare the shared centre.
How it works
The talking-stick method, brought online with care.
A circle is not a meeting. One voice at a time, a shared center, and the certainty of not being interrupted — that is what changes the room. Co-Intelligence Circle carries this old practice into video calls.
The method
Why one stick changes everything.
In a talking-stick circle, only the person holding the stick speaks. There is no jumping in, no talking over, no winning the floor. The circle chooses its order — sunwise, earthwise, or an open floor for a short brainstorm — and a gentle timer keeps each turn whole. People who never speak in meetings speak in circles.
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Shared centerFacilitators use circles for supervision and intervision, team retrospectives, councils, grief work, men's and women's circles, and classrooms. The method is old; the room is new.
Under the circle
One circle, one truth.
A video call only has to carry pictures. A circle has to agree — on who holds the floor, whose microphone is open and whose turn is next. That agreement is the engine, and it lives in one place.
on_tableFlat, in the middleNobody has the floor. Anyone can pick it up — and in an open round it stays here and is not even clickable, because then it is the symbol of the circle rather than a control.heldUpright, on your tileYou are holding it, and the room can see that you are. The pose is read from the room's own state, so it stands up on everyone's screen at the same moment — not a beat later on the slower connection.pass_stickTilted, on the next seatWhile you hold it, the stick appears tilted on the seat you can hand it to — it is the button. Only the next seat in the round offers it, so the floor moves around the circle instead of back to whoever is loudest.- The server decides, not your browser
- Your screen never invents the circle. It asks, the room answers, and every participant is sent the same numbered state. Two people can no longer see two different rounds.
- Your microphone is yours
- No mode, no round and no other person can stop you unmuting yourself. The circle mutes gently on a hand-over, but that is a default, never a lock: you can always cut in with you are muted.
- It survives the wobble
- A refresh, a switched tab, a dead battery. If the holder drops out, the stick returns to the table after fifteen seconds and the round carries on. Someone in another tab keeps their turn; someone genuinely gone is skipped.
- Forwarded, not stored
- Audio and video are encrypted in transit and relayed, not kept. Recording happens only when a host starts it, and everyone in the room is asked first.
From link to lit fire in one minute
Share one link
Or a six-digit room code. Nothing to install — guests join free, no accounts.
Pass the stick
Share one link. Guests join without an account, a download or a setup ritual.
