The Teen Talking Circle Project

clients and projects

Since 1997, Daughters Sisters and Teen Talking Circles have touched thousands of people through trainings, workshops, speaking tours and circles. Our three books combined have sold over 30,000 copies and have been translated into Chinese and Turkish.

Partial Client List:

Addictions Counseling Center for the Squamish Nation
American Association of University Women Poughkeepsie Branch
American Association of University Women Wappiger Falls
Antioch University
Asian Counseling & Referral Service
Aspen Youth Center
Associated Ministries
Auburn AmeriCorp Team
Auburn’s Neigthborhood Program
Barber Hill Wellness
Bethany House
Binder Riha Associates
Bitberg High School
Boys & Girls Club of Fond du Lac
Brandon University
Bremerton Kitsap County Health District
Bush School, Seattle Washington
Canadian Forces Halifax Class Patrol Frigate HMCS
Canadian Red Cross
Casa de la Imagination
Catalyst Mediation Services
Centre for Research & Education/ Violence Against Women & Children
Center for Women & Democracy - University of Washington
Centerheart
CenterPoint
Chico Peace and Justice Center
Children's Literacy Project/Treehouse Tutoring Corps
Circle Yoga
Client List
Community Coalition of Eastern Santa Cruz
Community Outreach Programs in Addictions, Toronto
Counseling for Life
Counseling Psychology Center, Monmouth University
Creative Crossings
Creative Possibilities
Crisis Clinic of Washington State
Culver Girls Academy
Culver Military School
Dads and Daughters
Denise DuPree Acupuncture Clinic
Earth Girls National Building
East Cherry YWCA, Washington
eco-brain: Green Books for Green Living
Edmonton Film Festival
Fairview Junior High School
Feminist Women's Health Center
First Presbyterian Church
Florence City Board of Education
Fond du Lac Health Department
Fond du Lac School District
Fond du Lack Family Resoure Center
Gather the Women, Canada
GI Jane of Illinois
Girls Coalition of Greater Boston
Girlphyite
Girls EnCircle
Girls Outdoors
GRuB (Garden-Raised Bounty
Guiding Lights Weekend
Harpeth Hall School
Healing Circles Program Coordinator Hospice Care Online
Indianapolis Peace Institute
Kewaskum High School
Kim's World
Kitsap Youth in Action
Kodiak Area Native Association
Lafayette college
Lake Washington Tech Academy
Lake Washington Girls Middle School
Leelenau County Juvenile Justice Department
LTBB of Otawa Indians
Lifeways, Inc
Lutheran Evangelical Church of Denmark
Marysville YMCA, Washington
Media Island International
Mental Health Counseling at Antioch, Seattle WA.
Miami Valley Juvenile Rehabilitation Center
Missouri State CDR
National Defence and the Canadian Forces
New Moon Foundation
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
Northwest Girl's Coalition
Nurture a Chlld
Oregon Youth Authority
Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth
Operation Respect
Passages Northwest
Peace by Peace
Peace Corps
PeaceFirst
Pearls for Teen Girls
Pep Girlz Program
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains
Planned Parenthood Marmonte, Reno, Nevada
Puget Sound Community School
Red Moon Yoga
Renton Area Youth and Family Services
Renton Teen Health Center
Rite of Passage Journeys
Robinson Community Learning Center Prevention Program
RTI International - Crime, Justice and Behavior Unit
Santa Barbara Family Therapy Institute
Safe.Smart. Strong.
St Croix Valley Restorative Justice
Saint Mary’s College
Setrawa/India
Seventh-Generation
Shambhali Trust/Jodhpur, India
Sister Made International Services’ Office
Space Between
Spirited Youth
The Fun House
The Karuna School
The Way of It: Personal Coaching
Travers City Juvenile Justice Department
United Way of King County
UW-Milwaukee - Office of Student Life
University of Toronto
University Universalist Church
Untamed Imagination
US Department of Women’s Health
Valley New School
Voices and Choices
Volunteers of America, Mentoring Children of Promise
Washington Ethical Society
Washington National Guard Family Programs
West Seattle Teen Health Center
Wilderness Awareness School
Wildwood Elementary School
Women in Support of Education
Women’s Center at the University of Wisconsi
YES/Bhutan
YES Summit/Mexico
YMCA Seattle Washington
YWCA of Jamestown New York
YWCA Pathways for Women
YWCA-Washington Advantage

Special Projects

Upcoming 2009 - Yelapa Women's Talking Circle/Yoga Retreat, Mexico
Upcoming 2008 - Oregon Youth Authority Facilitator Trainings (pending)
2008 - Guiding Lights Mentoring Conference, Seattle
2008 - Lean on Me Project, Mumbai, India
2008 - Sambhali Trust Circle, Jodhpur, India
2007 - Guiding Lights Mentoring Conrerence, Seattle
2007 - Full Woman DVD begins (thru 2009)
2007 - Rudolph Steiner Destiny Path Grant begins (thru 2010)
2006 - Guiding Lights Mentoring Conference, Seattle
2006 - Culver Girl's Academy - Presentation
2006 - Casa de la Imagination Circle, Yelapa Mexico
2005 - Seattle Branch opens
2005 - Boulder, CO. branch opens
2005 - Youth Economic Summit/ Mexico
2005 - Puget Sound Community School Girls Group
2005 - China - Global Youth Activism Trip with Global Exchange
2004 - St. Mary's College: Women and Diversity Conference
2004 - Seattle Girls School Panel on Ethics and Leadership
2004 - Youth Employment Summit, Mexico www.yesweb.org
2004 - Fond du Lac, WI. Facilitator Training
2004 - YES Summit, Mexico - Facilitator Training
2003 - Edmonton Film Festival
2003 - United Way Agency Fair
2006 - Culver Girl's Academy - Presentation
2003 - Center for Women & Democracy - UW - Keynote Presentation
2003 - WISE! Keynote speach, Quality of Life Awards Ceremony, N.Y.
2001 - Voice and Choices Conference, Key Note Speech
2001 - Leelenau County Family Coordinating Committee
2000 - Girls Group, Leelenau County Juvenile Justice Department
2000 - Self-esteem and the Media Workshop
2000 - Office of Women's Health Young Women's Health Summit
1999 - WTO Protest
1999 - Women: Democracy, Sovereignty, Development Conference
1998 - Mount Madonna GenderTalks Group
1997 - Robert Bly/Marion Woodman Mentor Circle
1997 - NOW Round Table Discussion
1997 - Context Institute Round Table Discussion
1996 - International Girls Focus Group (Beijing, China)
1996 - The Bainbridge Island Conference on Women and Girls

Awards

1998 - Susan Koppelman Award for Excellence in Mentoring
2001 - Computerworld Honors Award Finalist for Outstanding Projects that Benefit Humankind (nominated by Epson USA)

National Steering Committees

  • The Women, Democracy Sovereignty Development Conference (WTO Protest, Seattle)
  • National Young Women's Health Conference (OWH) - Adult Workshop Leaders: Neva Welton, Linda Wolf
  • National Young Women's Health Conference (OWH) - Teen Participants: Heather Wolf-Smeeth, Bryna Lawrence
  • Young Women's Working Group on HIV & AIDS (OWH) Teen Participants: Heather Wolf-Smeeth, Bryna Lawrence
  • From Bainbridge to Beijing: Conference on Global World Conference on Women - Teen Participant: Morgan Hahn

Media Exposure

Daughters Sisters and TTC directors, facilitators, authors and teens have been interviewed by hundreds of radio stations and newspapers. PDFs and audio copies of those below are available from our office. Click on the links below some of our recent interviews...

Conversations with Riane Eisler - Women's Radio

Girphyte Interviews Linda Wolf

Kitsap Sun Newspaper
InContext Magazine: Issue 43 - Youth & Identity
YES! A Journal of Positive Futures "GenderTalks"
"The Power of Girls" - New Dimensions Radio with Justine Toms
"Sisters" - NPR
ABC Radio
KIRO News Radio
Elliot Bay Bookstore (book signings)
Barnes & Nobles Bookstore (book signings)
LaVerne Baker Hotep Show - Well Woman Radio
Seattle Times: Wrestling With Womanhood - Daughters Sisters Project
Bainbridge Review