1. Write your name in the bold center circle.
2. Circle 1. List the people you love; the people closest to you; people that YOU depend on the most (i.e., typically family and best friends).
3. Circle 2. List kids you are friends with; people you really like and depend on but not as much as those you put in Circle 1 (i.e., good friends, people you do things with regularly, people who spend the night, people you have over after school).
4. Circle 3. List groups of people you enjoy doing things with occasionally but less than the Circle 2; people you had fun with or do specific activities with (i.e., Scouts, neighbors, teams, clubs, someone you walk to school with).
5. Circle 4. List people who get paid to be in your life (i.e., teacher, doctor, dentist).
6. Have a few students share their circles.
7. Show the group the identified student’s circle (student should not be in the room).
8. Discussion of ________________’s circle. How is your circle different?
9. Get suggestions from the group on ways you could develop a circle with more friends in it for identified student.

Adopted from Marsha Frost & Judith Snow (1987)