Celebrating Holidays, Crazy Videos, and Bonding Adventures.
One of the biggest goals from the get-go with Open Circles was to make everyone feel like family.
Employees, volunteers—everyone had to know they were home.
As we expanded, with thousands of students and nearly 20 employees, this became even more crucial.
We wanted to keep that cozy, family vibe going strong.
Christmas and New Year’s were special times. We’d shut down the company so everyone could be with their families. Meanwhile, we’d escape to warmer places—usually Bonaire or Curacao—where we could indulge in our favorite hobby, diving.
But we always made sure that on December 31st, our students and team got a fun, zany video from us, packed with best wishes for the upcoming year.
We’ve done some wild ones over the years—lip-sync battles, A-Z wishes, underwater love notes from our dives, you name it.
In December 2015, we were already settled in our new house in Tenerife.
We decided to give everyone a virtual tour of our place, filming the video all over the property while doing the most outrageous things we could think of.
Thom, our resident videographer, shot and edited most of these New Year’s videos.
It was a great way for us to bond with her and let her see what we were up to.
I’m not entirely sure she approved of her parents acting like goofballs, but we had a blast doing it!
Some other videos we produced in other years were: