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August 2020
The Winding Way: Courage for the Weary Soul
These are bewildering times. Things seem to be coming apart: democracy, planet Earth, our nerves. The way forward feels cloudy, uncertain, and exhausting. As winding and wearisome as the path may be, it’s crucial that we allow time to renew our spirits and to restore our capacities for connection and courage, wonder and resilience. The Milkweed Group and Prairie Oaks Institute invite you to join us for this life-giving series of mini-retreats: “The Winding Way: Courage for the Weary Soul.”…
July 2021
Summer’s Fullness: Holding Delight & Grief in Complex Times
Summer’s Fullness: Holding Delight & Grief in Complex Times An Online Circle of Trust® Retreat Series WHY NOW: One of the gifts of summer is the abundance of life – the riot of growth in field and garden, forest and meadow. It’s a time for the sheer delight of play! For Fire! Energy! Heat! Heart! And yet summer can also be a time of tremendous challenge – drought or flood, pests or pestilence. And this summer, in particular is a…
January 2022
Deepening Our Roots for the Work of Our Lives
Enter the new year with intention, and join us for the winter installment of “Deepening Our Roots for the Work of Our Lives” — an online Circle of Trust retreat series. Facilitated by 12 Tiny Things author Ellie Roscher and experienced Circles of Trust® facilitator Chris Johnson (The Milkweed Group). Hosted by Prairie Oaks Institute, near Belle Plaine, Minnesota, whose mission is to be a catalyst for the rejuvenation of people and the planet. Each session (via Zoom) will…
October 2023
Thresholds: Living in, and beyond, the In-Between
Join us for this life-giving Courage & Renewal Circle of Trust® retreat to attend to the liminal spaces of our lives – including what it means to embrace the disorientation that change brings, as an opportunity to discern what’s yet to come. Our time together will include exploring our own “living hinges” – what lies behind us and what may be calling us forward.