Welcome to The Sambai Circle
We help justice-driven leaders
collaborate to drive culture and systems change.
We are a partner and guide as you work to make life healthier, safer, more connected, more fulfilling, and more just for yourself and your people.
Our programs and services help you draw upon information, experience, and intuition to deepen your understanding, make clear decisions, and take effective action.
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Our transformative learning programs give leaders the skills and tools to lead inclusive, collaborative, and justice-driven change.
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We help design and guide important meetings, workshops, and retreats using methods that prioritize inclusive participation, equitable process, critical reflection, and consensus-building.
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We expertly combine deep listening with critical inquiry to help teams, coalitions, and alliances to clarify their goals and intentions and to move through and beyond the internal and external barriers that stand in the way of effective collaboration and achievement.
How We Support Your Work
Whether you are an individual leader or a team, you likely already have many of the core elements needed to create change: awareness and knowledge of issues, meaningful relationships and networks, lived experience, professional expertise, a solid commitment to making a difference.
We help you bring the elements together to answer the question: HOW?
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How will you use the tools and resources you have to make life better for you and your people?
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How can you connect the dots to reveal a bigger picture for the future?
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How can you align your goals and actions to overcome obstacles and move toward your vision?
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How will you connect and build with others to create collective change?
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How can you move through and beyond the challenges that hinder your process?
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How will you contribute to collective change?
About the Keeper
Alan W. Goff is an educator, facilitator, and the Founder and Keeper of The Sambai Circle.
Click through below to learn more about Alan.
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Alan has dedicated the past 20 years to researching, practicing, and teaching at the intersection of social justice education, intergroup dialogue facilitation, and social change leadership development.
Through deep dialogues, engaged learning experiences, and dynamic workshops, Alan helps social impact leaders work in communities, collaboratives, coalitions, and cohorts, to reshape culture and create systems change.
He is known for skillfully harnessing the power of deep listening to get to the heart of key issues and questions.
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Alan is trained and practiced in a range of group dialogue and process facilitation approaches, including ToP Facilitation & Strategic Planning methods through the Institute for Cultural Affairs, and the practice of Council through the Center for Council.
He holds an M.Ed. in Social Justice Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and is completing a PhD in Education at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Alan was born and raised in South & Southeast Los Angeles, California. His people are Belizean Kriol, and Black American from Southern Ohio.
He is the proud son of Alice Goff, a long-time labor organizer and community activist who is his first and most influential role model in leadership.
Alan currently lives between Los Angeles and Belize City, and is especially committed to supporting cultural preservation, healing justice, and social change projects in both of his home communities.