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Step 5 · passing it onFor leaders: how a circle grows
The system grows not through advertising but through people: every 90-day cycle produces at least one new leader, who opens a circle of their own. A leader is a keeper of rhythm and safety, not a “senior in spirituality”. Everything they need is already written and open.
The leader's path
Your own 30 days and a 90-day cycle
You can lead only what you have lived yourself: the whole course, the Wheel, one cycle of one quality.
Co-leading a cohort
From the second cohort on, everyone leads in a pair: the co-leader holds the circle by protocol if the leader drops out for a week, and becomes a candidate to lead the next cohort.
The school of leaders: four weeks
Co-leading → supervision. Checklists, circle scripts, a crisis guide of twelve situations, measurement questionnaires. Ranks are functional, not spiritual; there are no “master” certificates — there is clearance to lead after co-leading.
Your own circle
The name “Fire of Ethics” is free for anyone to use who keeps the circle's code: voluntariness; the right to silence; no guru and no “levels”; small size; an outlet into the Common Good; measurements. Every circle accepts the right to a friendly audit by the shared checklist.
The circle's code
Rules for leading a circle
do not comment on or grade what is said; the word “pass” is a complete answer; timing is held gently but firmly; the leader speaks last and shortest of all; what is said in the circle stays in the circle; no lectures — the circle listens to people, not to the leader.
The 90-minute format
opening (5 minutes) → the round of speaking (60 minutes: everyone speaks for 3–4 minutes on one question, the rest listen without comment) → open discussion (15 minutes) → closing and the focus of the coming week (10 minutes).
Silent trios
The main failure of any 30-day format is loneliness between Sundays: the chat is crowded, yet nobody is beside you. The remedy is silent trios: at the start, those who wish are divided into groups of three (randomly, by the leader). The rules are extremely simple and are announced verbatim: “One message a day to each other: ‘I'm still here’ — and one line if you feel like it. We don't advise, don't comment, don't r…