Exploring alternative relationships is a journey best shared with friends. Join a community of like minded people who celebrate the many ways we can experience love, friendship, intimacy, and connection.
Welcome to
The Open Circle
Our values
While society has made great strides in accepting many sexual orientations, it can still be difficult to advocate our right to explore our relationship orientation, or which types of relationships resonate with us as individuals. Wherever your curiosity leads you, you will be supported along the way.
We are a sex-positive community whose members share experiences and knowledge relating to alternative relationship dynamics. We foster education on different relationship styles with a view of normalising and legitimising the wonderful variety of ways that people can share love, sex, and commitment.
We are open to all gender identities, relationship configurations, and sexualities. Whether you identify as non-binary, asexual, straight, poly, kinky or monogamish - if you come with an open mind, a willingness to listen, and the courage to express your ideas, you will fit right in.
If you’re curious to learn about how The Open Circle started, check out our story.
Join a community of supportive, like-minded people to help you thrive.
With over 500 members in Sydney
Attend monthly events curated to spark connections that last a lifetime.
Including mixers, connection retreats & festivals
Create meaningful connections unlike anything you’ve experienced before.
We’re a surprisingly wholesome bunch
Important qualities that our community attracts
1 You celebrate all forms of love, relationships, sexual orientations, gender identities, and relationship styles.
2 You practice consent by checking in with others, ensuring that everyone feels safe and comfortable.
3 You’re looking to create deep, meaningful connections, whether platonic, romantic, or sexual.
4 You actively contribute to creating a welcoming, non-judgmental space for others in the community.
5 You value open, honest, and clear communication ensuring everyone feels safe to express how they feel.
6 You value reciprocity in relationships, understanding that giving is just as important as receiving.
7 You navigate complex emotions with curiosity and compassion when connecting with others.
8 You’re open to exploring your emotional landscape and triggers in order to grow as an individual.
Strengthening
Our Circle
Inclusivity & Safety
We strive to be as inclusive as possible, creating a welcoming space where everyone can feel safe to express themselves. However, we understand that not every community is the right fit for every individual—and that’s okay. Our commitment to maintaining a respectful and supportive environment means we prioritise alignment in values and behaviours. It’s never personal when we choose not to welcome someone; it’s about safeguarding the integrity of the space we’ve lovingly built.
A Shared Responsibility
We all have quirks that can make us difficult to connect with at times, and that’s okay. As a member of this community, it’s your responsibility to reflect on and work through those quirks to ensure others feel safe and comfortable around you. One of our values is to be continually seeking out opportunities to grow as people, and welcoming feedback for blindspots in our behaviour.
When expecting others to behave and interact with respect, kindness and accountability, we need to expect the same from ourselves. Embracing this self-awareness allows us to show up better for each other and strengthen the bonds within our community.
In order to maintain a respectful and supportive environment, we prioritise alignment in values and behaviours.
Behavioural Standards
Level 1
Behaviours that disrupt the warmth and safety of our space, such as antisocial actions, making others uncomfortable, inappropriate comments or jokes, will be addressed with a series of pre-warnings. If these behaviours persist, we may ask individuals to step away from the community.
This is not personal, but a recognition that not all people are a good fit for every community. It’s more important to us that we are a safe and nurturing place to explore relationships differently, than to be accomodating for behaviours that directly threaten that, especially when there is no acknowledgement of shortcomings or desire to grow.
By working on ourselves and upholding these values, we can co-create a space where everyone feels respected, connected, and empowered to thrive. This is a core value of The Open Circle, and always will be.
Level 2
Actions such as clear breaches of consent, harassment, or any form of bigotry will result in immediate removal from the community. This is not-negotiable, as these actions undermine the safety and inclusivity we hold dear.
Redemption is important, and we hope leaving the community is a catalyst for behavioural change, but that journey to reconciliation can’t take place in the same environment where the harm was done.
Safety of and within this community is more important than any individual person, and we will remove people, with kindness, without hesitation. This is a core value of The Open Circle, and always will be.