Published openly
Summit selection criteria
Once a year, each circle puts one member forward to share her outcomes at the summit. Slots are not applied for and cannot be bought. Because that decision sits with a facilitator, the basis for it is published here in full — before the year starts, not after it ends.
Every member can read the rubric, score her own ledger against it, and ask her facilitator why a number is what it is. Nothing here is confidential.
Next in the diary · Founding assembly
Saturday 14 November 2026
2.00pm – 5.30pm GMT · Online — One shared room, every founding circle, cameras on.
Not yet a summit — the first time the whole movement sits in one room. Ledgers are only weeks old, so nobody performs. We set the bar, in public, for the year that follows.
Founding assembly
Saturday 14 November 2026
Online · 2.00pm – 5.30pm GMT
The first summit
Saturday 13 November 2027
London · 2.00pm into the evening
The shape of the day
- 2.00pmDoors and the long tableTea, no name badges, no pitching. Thirty minutes of warmth before any business.
- 2.30pmThe year, read plainlyEach circle's facilitator reads twelve months in four minutes. Numbers, not narrative.
- 3.15pmFloor turnsOne member per circle. Eight minutes each, timed. What moved, what stuck, what she asked for.
- 5.00pmAsks of the whole roomAnything a single circle could not solve alone goes to every circle at once.
- 6.30pmDinner, and the year aheadNext year's host city announced. Salon manners resume; the ledger closes for the night.
Times are indicative until eight weeks out, when the running order is published in full.
Where each circle stands
The stage every circle has reached on its way to the summit floor. Scores stay between a member and her facilitator — this board shows only the step, never the points, and never a name without written consent.
- Ledgers scoredFacilitators score against the published rubric. Private throughout.
- Members see their own scoresEach member gets her own bands and reasoning. Facts may be corrected.
- Invitations issuedHighest eligible score is asked. This board flips to Invited.
- Line-up confirmedAccepted speakers confirmed and consent captured, line by line.
London I · London
ConfirmedSpeaker confirmed; consent captured for two ledger lines.
Reviewed this month · Speaker accepted and named publicly only with her written consent.
London II · London
InvitedInvitation with the member; reply due within a fortnight.
Reviewed this month · One member has been asked. She may accept or decline without explanation.
Manchester · North West
InvitedInvitation issued after the first member passed.
Reviewed this month · One member has been asked. She may accept or decline without explanation.
Birmingham · Midlands
Passed onFirst invitation declined; next eligible member being approached.
Reviewed this month · Invitation declined; it passes to the next eligible member. Never held against her.
Bristol · South West
DraftingScoring underway; twelve months of ledger not yet complete for all members.
Reviewed this month · Facilitator is scoring ledgers privately. No invitation issued yet.
Edinburgh · Scotland
DraftingCircle formed recently — first eligible year is 2027.
Reviewed this month · Facilitator is scoring ledgers privately. No invitation issued yet.
The rubric — 100 points
Four bands, scored from the ledger alone. A member must reach 70 points or more to be eligible, and cannot score zero in any single band — a perfect record in three bands does not cover a blank in the fourth.
Ledger completeness
30 pointsTwelve months of entries, including the months where nothing moved.
- 30 — every month recorded, blank months named honestly
- 20 — one or two months missing
- 10 — recorded only when things went well
- 0 — reconstructed after the fact
Honesty under pressure
25 pointsStuck points named before they were solved, not after.
- 25 — a stuck point stated while still stuck, in the room
- 15 — stated, but only once the way out was visible
- 5 — mentioned in hindsight
- 0 — no stuck point ever recorded
Ask and offer
25 pointsA real ask made of the room, and an offer taken up, with the outcome written down.
- 25 — ask made, offer taken, outcome recorded either way
- 15 — ask made, offer taken, outcome unrecorded
- 5 — asks made but never taken up
- 0 — attended without ever asking
Still in play at twelve months
20 pointsMovement that held, rather than one good quarter.
- 20 — the change is still live a year on
- 12 — live, but materially reduced
- 5 — a strong quarter that did not hold
- 0 — nothing has moved
How the decision runs
- Eight weeks out, the facilitator scores every ledger in her circle against the rubric and writes one sentence of reasoning per band.
- Six weeks out, each member receives her own scores and reasoning privately. She may correct facts in her ledger; she cannot argue for points.
- Four weeks out, the highest eligible score is invited. Ties go to the member who has not spoken before.
- She may decline without explanation, and it never counts against her. The invitation then passes to the next eligible score.
- After the summit, every circle's scores are published inside the movement as anonymised bands, so members can see where the bar actually sat.
What is never counted
- Attendance streaks. Turning up is the minimum, not an achievement.
- Seniority, title, or the size of the organisation behind her.
- Followers, press, awards, or anything a stranger could have bought.
- How well she performs in the room. This is a ledger, not an audition.
- How much the facilitator or the circle likes her.
Nothing is read aloud at the summit without written consent, line by line. A member controls what leaves her ledger, always — the rubric decides who is asked, never what is disclosed.