Solena Circles launch in 2026, and we’re building an early group of women who want to lead the first wave. You don’t need formal leadership experience — just commitment, curiosity, and a desire to bring women together around a challenge that matters in your community.
If you feel driven to make change, please join us to help design the Circle model across countries and cultures.
A Solena Circle is a small, intergenerational group of 10–25 women who meet regularly for connection, leadership, and one focused community initiative each year.
Each Circle chooses the issue that matters most to them locally — such as safety, livelihoods, leadership, care, or access to opportunity — and Solena provides the training, tools, and global network to support them.
Solena is a membership-based collective.
Each Circle contributes tiered membership dues based on local context, which sustain shared training, tools, safety systems, and the global Shared Fund that supports Circles and community initiatives across different resource levels.
Circles are:
You bring the passion and determination. We bring the structure that helps you grow it into impact.
Women come together, build trust, and choose a shared local challenge.
The Circle designs one initiative for the year — practical, doable, and rooted in the community.
The Circle leads the initiative, supported by Solena’s training, tools, and global learning ecosystem.
Circles share stories, insights, and experiences with their twinned Circle and the wider network.
Circles deepen their work, rotate leadership, and shape their next year based on what they’ve learned.
This simple, steady rhythm keeps the work meaningful without being overwhelming.
Foundations in gender equality, leadership, facilitation, and community care.
Tested models from community-rooted organizations around the world.
Meeting guides, role rotation, shared decision- making, and initiative planning tools.
A sister Circle for learning, story exchange, peer mentorship, and solidarity.
Tiered dues that sustain Circles across contexts, subsidies for low-resource communities, and microgrants.
Membership dues are set on a sliding scale, with high-resource Circles contributing more and low-resource Circles fully or partially subsidized. No Circle is excluded due to cost. You’ll join a global cohort of early Circle leaders helping shape the model in diverse cultural contexts.
In 2026, Circles will initially join in 1-2 cohorts. After 2026, Circles will be able to join when ready.
You don’t need a title, credentials, or a background in development work.
Ideal Circle Leads are women who:
Whether you’re a student, a mother, a professional, a retired person, or an organizer — you belong here.
If you want to lead a Circle in 2026 (or you’re simply curious) join the early planning list.
You’ll receive updates, invitations to preview sessions, and opportunities to co-design elements of the model.