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October 2019
Milkweed ChangeMaker Corps
The challenges that face us today require a new kind of leadership – leadership that serves with deep purpose, vulnerable trust, robust interdependence, a discerning moral compass, and nourishment to sustain the kind of change-making this world needs to see. This seasonal retreat cycle gathers a diverse cohort of people from multiple sectors who seek to live and lead with greater authenticity, effectiveness, and wellbeing, for the sake of the common good. We warmly invite you to be among…
July 2020
Leading with Heart: Courage & Resilience for Challenging Times
Trying to change the world? The Milkweed Group and @ImpactHubMSP are here to help! As change-makers, we sometimes forget to take care of ourselves, but we know that’s essential to sustain the important work we all do. This summer’s Skills a la Carte Program is all about personal development & self care! Check out my workshop, “Leading with Heart: Courage & Resilience for Challenging Times,” happening ONLINE Thursday, July 30, noon – 2 p.m. Impact Hub is also offering a…
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…
October 2021
Harvest, Store, and Scatter: Practicing Autumn — A Circle of Trust Retreat Series
In the depths of autumn, what is coming to fruition in and through my life? What wisdom of the season can help me to navigate these perplexing times of transition, challenge, and possibility? How can I live a life that’s more grounded – in the earth, in these times, and in who I really am? What might it mean to live with deeper purpose and stronger connection to the world around me? WHAT: Prairie Oaks Institute…
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 2022
Brokenness and Beauty in an Undivided Life: A Circle of Trust Retreat
The last few years have been so hard. We’re exhausted, stretched, frayed. Many of us have been re-evaluating our lives, our relationships, our careers. We yearn for… healing, clarity, beauty – even in the midst of brokenness. The poet John O’Donohue notes that “when we experience beauty, we feel called.” How might brokenness and beauty together help us to live more fully into who we’re called to be, and what we’re called to do? This Courage & Renewal…
February 2023
Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Carry On
These are challenging, bewildering times in our democracy, and the midterm election and its aftermath seem to bring still more causes and occasions for heartbreak – and hope. How do we hold it all? How do we deal with people with whom we disagree? And now that the election is over (with the next cycle already beginning), where do we find the hope and motivation to stay engaged, the stamina and courage to carry on, the strength and grace to…
May 2023
Coming Back to Life: The Courage to Emerge
Spring is a time when seeds that have lain dormant through the long, cold, quiet of winter crack open and send forth the life they’ve held within them. A time of now and not yet, of both mud and muck and green shoots of possibility. As we turn from winter and from the pandemic into a new season, it’s time for a fresh look at what wants to emerge in both the inner and outer landscapes of our lives. In…
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.