OUR NEXT EVENT:
Connecting for Change Leadership Dinner
Connecting for Change Leadership Dinner
NOVEMBER 28, 2024, TORONTO
NOVEMBER 28, 2024, TORONTO
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Seating is limited to 12 people,
We believe that it is time to do work differently. We envision workplaces that are collaborative, generative ecosystems which contribute to the thriving of people, planet and society.
We do this through our framework which invites processes of deep self-awareness, collective community building, and system level changes inside organizations, companies and the ecosystems which they engage with.
We do this through our framework which invites processes of deep self-awareness, collective community building, and system level changes inside organizations, companies and the ecosystems which they engage with.
OUR VISION
OUR VISION
We envision a world where every individual thrives in an equitable and flourishing society.
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OUR MISSION
OUR MISSION
We are on a mission to reshape systems by transforming how we are in relation to each other, ourselves, and the world we share.
Our Framework
Our Framework
Our Framework to the left is rooted in three principles:
- Take care of yourself,
- Take care of each other
- Take care of the world we share.
Meet our team
Meet our team
Snjezana Pruginic is a trainer, consultant, thought leader, speaker, and educator focused on co-creating systems where all individuals can thrive. With over 24 years of experience, her work spans across the globe, working with community organizations and companies committed to driving positive change.
Snjezana's background and work as a community builder, social justice advocate, somatic trauma therapist, and consultant has given her deep insight into the challenges faced by diverse communities, including those impacted by systemic barriers, violence, war, and incarceration. These experiences of working with communities experiencing barriers, systemic oppressions, and trauma has led to her pioneering well-being, restorative justice, and peace-building programs in Eastern Europe, South America, and North America.
Inspired by her experience in private practice, where many clients' primary stressor was their workplace, Snjezana transitioned to adapting her learnings into strategies for healthier, more collaborative work environments.
Inspired by her experience in private practice, where many clients' primary stressor was their workplace, Snjezana transitioned to adapting her learnings into strategies for healthier, more collaborative work environments.
As both a trainer and consultant, Snjezana has worked with a diverse range of clients to enhance their social impact and foster a positive organizational culture. Her clients include municipalities, academic institutions, corporations, startups, venture capital firms, founders, and nonprofits. She also has extensive leadership and frontline experience in the care-centered and social service sectors, which deeply informs her consulting approach.
Recognized for her dynamic and engaging speaking style, Snjezana is a sought-after facilitator who champions participatory action and collective knowledge building. She delivers impactful training on topics such as trauma-informed care, equity, emotional intelligence, generative conflict, crisis response, and systemic well-being.
Recognized for her dynamic and engaging speaking style, Snjezana is a sought-after facilitator who champions participatory action and collective knowledge building. She delivers impactful training on topics such as trauma-informed care, equity, emotional intelligence, generative conflict, crisis response, and systemic well-being.
"For more than two decades, I've dedicated myself to the intersection of well-being and social justice. I firmly believe that creating a better world requires a holistic approach: nurturing ourselves, supporting one another, and safeguarding our planet. This conviction has led me to focus on transforming our workplaces.
I'm convinced that this transformation is a collective endeavor. It calls for us to show up authentically, embrace accountability, and cultivate a profound, compassionate self-awareness. Only then can we truly connect with one another as fellow human beings.
We must critically examine our work practices, both within our organizations and in their broader impact on the world. Are we inadvertently causing harm, or are we actively contributing to a future where both people and the planet can flourish? This question is at the heart of the change I seek to inspire."
Snjezana Pruginic
Our Asscociates
Our Asscociates
A group of compassionate professionals and experts in their field dedicated to supporting social justice and well-being
Rebeckah Price
Rebeckah Price
Rebeckah Price is a community builder, yoga and meditation instructor + advocate and consultant with a lifelong passion for creating belonging in community. As the founder of irise yoga + wellness and co-founder of the well collective, she has created a community for women of colour and other marginalized communities to unapologetically show up for themselves while connecting them with self care practices to help connect more to their own individual sovereignty.
Rebeckah also spends her time advocating for more diverse, accessible and inclusive wellness spaces, with a background in community development, place making and policy she spends her time educating others and creating ways for a more diverse, equitable and inclusive wellness industry.
Rebeckah also spends her time advocating for more diverse, accessible and inclusive wellness spaces, with a background in community development, place making and policy she spends her time educating others and creating ways for a more diverse, equitable and inclusive wellness industry.
Dr. Rai Reece
Dr. Reece is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work broadly examines how carceral logics are relationally organized by racial capitalism and white supremacy, and how carceral processes in Canada are maintained by historical and contemporary narratives of white settler colonial violence. She is an assistant professor in the department of Sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University where she teaches and has published in the areas of ‘race’ and racism, social justice, abolition, and anti-Black racism. Dr. Reece’s work also focuses on community-based collaboration and she has conducted numerous anti-racism facilitations with organizations at the municipal, provincial, and federal level.
Zainib Abdullah
Zainib Abdullah
Zainib Abdullah (MSW, RSW) is the founder and executive director at Wellnest, a Toronto-based mental health clinic. The Wellnest team - a collective of diverse psychotherapists - focuses on supporting the needs of the BIPOC community. She holds her Masters in Social Work from the University of Toronto.
As a trauma therapist, her approach is client-centred, anti-racist/oppressive and trauma-informed, incorporating various therapeutic modalities. Zainib uses somatic based therapy to help clients heal and manage trauma experiences. She is a certified mindfulness meditation specialist from the University of Toronto, and has facilitated various mindfulness-based therapy programs at numerous hospitals.
As a trauma therapist, her approach is client-centred, anti-racist/oppressive and trauma-informed, incorporating various therapeutic modalities. Zainib uses somatic based therapy to help clients heal and manage trauma experiences. She is a certified mindfulness meditation specialist from the University of Toronto, and has facilitated various mindfulness-based therapy programs at numerous hospitals.
Juno Zavitz
Juno Zavitz
Juno Zavitz (they/them) is a consultant, coach and facilitator for non-profits, workers in social services, and community members in caregiving roles. They have 10+ years experience in frontline and management work in addictions, harm reduction, housing, and bereavement, and most love working with people and teams moving through loss, burn out - communities that are in need of repair and solidarity. Their background in this work comes from formal education in social work and psychotherapy, chaplaincy and theology, end of life care, and visual arts.
They are a transmasculine person who additionally identifies as having lived experience as a former high-risk drug user, and who believes deeply in transformative justice models and right for all persons to access care..
They are a transmasculine person who additionally identifies as having lived experience as a former high-risk drug user, and who believes deeply in transformative justice models and right for all persons to access care..
Asha Frost
Asha Frost
Asha Frost is an Indigenous (Ojibwe) healer, best-selling author, speaker and guide. Drawing on her ancestral knowledge and innate gifts, Asha has become a prominent figure in the field of Indigenous healing, garnering recognition on both local and international platforms.
As an author, Asha has eloquently captured the essence of Indigenous wisdom in her written words. Her book, You are the Medicine and deck, The Sacred Medicine Oracle
are powerful testaments to the healing potential that lies within us all. She loves sharing her medicine in powerful ways through ceremonies, workshops, and speaking events. With her insightful storytelling and compassionate voice Asha has succeeded in bridging the gap between traditional Indigenous wisdom and the modern world, offering guidance and inspiration to a diverse audience seeking personal empowerment. Her work serves as a guiding light, reminding us all of the power of the medicine that lies within.
As an author, Asha has eloquently captured the essence of Indigenous wisdom in her written words. Her book, You are the Medicine and deck, The Sacred Medicine Oracle
are powerful testaments to the healing potential that lies within us all. She loves sharing her medicine in powerful ways through ceremonies, workshops, and speaking events. With her insightful storytelling and compassionate voice Asha has succeeded in bridging the gap between traditional Indigenous wisdom and the modern world, offering guidance and inspiration to a diverse audience seeking personal empowerment. Her work serves as a guiding light, reminding us all of the power of the medicine that lies within.
Jeff Carolin
Jeff Carolin
Jeff Carolin (he/him) is a qualified mediator, restorative & transformative justice facilitator, and conflict & communication coach who works with a range of workplaces and community groups. Using a gentle, warm, and slow approach, he also supports all manner of team-building, healing and grief processes. Inspired by the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many others, his fundamental framework is that there will not be peace and justice on this planet until we all see each other as part of the same beloved community, and he is constantly trying to figure out how to integrate that idea into all aspects of his life & work. In these polarized times, Jeff has been engaging in dialogue efforts across the spectrum of opinion in his own Jewish community while also working with Palestinian community members through a lens of collective liberation. Previous to this work, Jeff spent more than a decade defending all manner of criminal charges for people impacted by poverty, racism, and ableism.
Our History
Our History
Circle Point Wellness is the culmination of Snjezana Pruginic's multifaceted career spanning over two decades and three continents. Her professional journey began with an in-depth exploration of trauma and its manifestation in individuals, (mostly due to her own personal experience of war and immigration) which naturally expanded to encompass community healing practices and eventually, workplace dynamics.
Throughout her career, Snjezana has been deeply involved in supporting diverse communities as they navigated the complex aftermath of violence, war, and systemic oppression. Along her career, Snjezana identified a recurring theme: the profound impact of inequitable, toxic, and harmful workplace environments on individual and collective well-being. This realization prompted a pivotal shift in her approach. She transitioned from providing individual therapeutic support to spearheading collaborative initiatives aimed at transforming entire systems—with a particular focus on workplaces.
This evolution in thinking and practice led to the birth of Circle Point Wellness. Today, it stands as a dynamic social impact company, driven by a singular mission: to foster environments where every individual can not just survive, but truly thrive. By addressing the root causes of workplace stress and dysfunction, Circle Point Wellness is committed to creating a ripple effect of positive change that extends far beyond office walls.
Snjezana's practice is rooted in her training as a Somatic Trauma Therapist, and during her community justice years, she completed a Master's research project in Embodied Care-Making and Embodied Abolition. From the rich history of somatics and neurophysiology, together with the impactful practices of transformative justice, Snjezana has developed her own Embodied Leadership framework which she speaks and trains on widely.
Throughout her career, Snjezana has been deeply involved in supporting diverse communities as they navigated the complex aftermath of violence, war, and systemic oppression. Along her career, Snjezana identified a recurring theme: the profound impact of inequitable, toxic, and harmful workplace environments on individual and collective well-being. This realization prompted a pivotal shift in her approach. She transitioned from providing individual therapeutic support to spearheading collaborative initiatives aimed at transforming entire systems—with a particular focus on workplaces.
This evolution in thinking and practice led to the birth of Circle Point Wellness. Today, it stands as a dynamic social impact company, driven by a singular mission: to foster environments where every individual can not just survive, but truly thrive. By addressing the root causes of workplace stress and dysfunction, Circle Point Wellness is committed to creating a ripple effect of positive change that extends far beyond office walls.
Snjezana's practice is rooted in her training as a Somatic Trauma Therapist, and during her community justice years, she completed a Master's research project in Embodied Care-Making and Embodied Abolition. From the rich history of somatics and neurophysiology, together with the impactful practices of transformative justice, Snjezana has developed her own Embodied Leadership framework which she speaks and trains on widely.
HONORING WHERE WE ARE- Land Acknowledgement
Even though we work globally, our offices are on the traditional unceded territory of Huron-Wendat, Anishinabek, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and The Mississaugas of the Credit River First Nations. As treaty people on this land, we acknowledge the collective, yet uniquely, and individually distinct responsibility of repairing the harms and preventing further harm caused by the White supremacist, colonial, systems which impact all parts of society, and which are directly responsible for the violent physical and cultural genocide of Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island, and the forced enslavement of people of African decent on these lands.
In our work we are accountable to all care practices that are not entangled with, and structured in punishment, surveillance and control. Care practices which are land based, and built on mutual support. Practices indigenous to all of our ancestors, and stolen from many. In our work we bring the history of our own individual ancestries, as well as the rich genealogy of deep lineage of care present in Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTBIPoC) communities. Communities from which self-determined care has been stolen through the legacy and present day reality of colonialism, supremacy and binary based systems. We actively center the QTBIPOC voices and aim to ensure that we are taking leadership in care by those who experience most harm.
Even though we work globally, our offices are on the traditional unceded territory of Huron-Wendat, Anishinabek, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and The Mississaugas of the Credit River First Nations. As treaty people on this land, we acknowledge the collective, yet uniquely, and individually distinct responsibility of repairing the harms and preventing further harm caused by the White supremacist, colonial, systems which impact all parts of society, and which are directly responsible for the violent physical and cultural genocide of Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island, and the forced enslavement of people of African decent on these lands.
In our work we are accountable to all care practices that are not entangled with, and structured in punishment, surveillance and control. Care practices which are land based, and built on mutual support. Practices indigenous to all of our ancestors, and stolen from many. In our work we bring the history of our own individual ancestries, as well as the rich genealogy of deep lineage of care present in Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTBIPoC) communities. Communities from which self-determined care has been stolen through the legacy and present day reality of colonialism, supremacy and binary based systems. We actively center the QTBIPOC voices and aim to ensure that we are taking leadership in care by those who experience most harm.