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Archetypes

The archetype library.

Different experiences and perspectives can shed a different light on ones journey. Each Circle of Eight gathering consists of a curated list of diversity.
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This library is a working catalog of the different lenses, backgrounds and ways of being. For any given gathering, we select one archetype per seat — curated for chemistry, contrast and resonance.

Builders & Founders
People who create things that didn’t exist before.
  • The Entrepreneur: Sees the world through the lens of opportunity and leverage.
  • The Operator: Turns vision into repeatable systems and execution.
  • The Product Architect: Designs experiences, not just features.
  • The Investor-Builder: Allocates capital and energy into what could be, not just what is.
  • The Regenerator: Builds businesses that repair, restore or regenerate — land, systems or people.
Thinkers & Philosophers
People who widen the lens on meaning, systems and reality.
  • The Philosopher: Asks the questions beneath the questions and challenges easy assumptions.
  • The Systems Thinker: Sees interdependence and unintended consequences.
  • The Ethicist: Holds the moral, societal and long-term implications of what we build.
  • The Historian: Brings pattern recognition from the past into the present.
  • The Futurist: Projects plausible futures and their second-order effects.
Explorers & Adventurers
People who live at the edge of the map — physical, intellectual or emotional.
  • The Explorer: Pushes the group to think beyond what is known.
  • The Adventurer: Tests limits in the real world — mountains, oceans, expeditions.
  • The Cultural Nomad: Moves between cultures and carries stories across borders.
  • The Maverick: Refuses default scripts and lives an unconventional life by design.
Artists & Creators
People who translate the invisible into something we can feel.
  • The Artist: Brings pattern and beauty through design, intuition and feeling.
  • The Storyteller: Gives language and narrative to complex human experiences.
  • The Designer: Shapes interfaces, environments and experiences that change behavior.
  • The Musician: Works with rhythm, tone and emotion as primary tools.
Scientists & Systems Minds
People who ground the circle in evidence, rigor and what is known.
  • The Scientist: Grounds the circle in evidence, science, data and what is known.
  • The Technologist: Understands how code, infrastructure and AI actually work.
  • The Data Thinker: Sees signal, noise and bias in the numbers.
  • The Engineer: Thinks in constraints, trade-offs and elegant solutions.
Healers & Guides
People who hold the well-being of minds, bodies and nervous systems.
  • The Healer: Brings focus to the well being of our minds and bodies.
  • The Therapist: Holds space for stories, patterns and repair.
  • The Somatic Practitioner: Works with the body as a gateway to change.
  • The Coach: Helps people move from insight to integrated action.
Spiritual & Inner-Work Guides
People who track the inner landscape and our relationship to something larger.
  • The Spiritual Leader: Holds space for faith, inner work and meaning with a higher purpose.
  • The Contemplative: Lives close to silence, stillness and reflection.
  • The Ritual Keeper: Designs experiences that mark transitions, thresholds and vows.
  • The Mystic: Lives with one foot in the seen and one in the unseen, while staying grounded.
Non-Linear & Non-Binary Minds
People who don’t fit tidy boxes — in identity, thinking or path.
  • The Non-Binary: Embodies fluidity in identity and thinking and provides answers beyond the obvious.
  • The Polymath: Moves across disciplines with ease.
  • The Bridge-Builder: Translates between worlds that don’t usually talk.
  • The Trickster: Uses humor, inversion and surprise to reveal deeper truth.
Elders, Sages & Stewards
People who have lived enough seasons to see the long arc.
  • The Elder: Brings perspective from multiple life chapters and hard-won wisdom.
  • The Steward: Thinks in terms of legacy, continuity and guardianship.
  • The Integrator: Weaves different threads into a coherent whole.
Wildcards & Edge Cases
People who don’t fit anywhere and somehow belong everywhere.
  • The Outlier: Lives at an extreme — of performance, experience or perspective.
  • The Culture Shaper: Moves trends, norms or narratives in subtle ways.
  • The Quiet Giant: Carries enormous influence with very little noise.
For any given Circle of Eight, we’ll curate one archetype per seat, drawing from this library. To understand the kind of humans we look for beyond labels, you can also read Who We Seek ↗.