Regenerative Community Workshops
& Discussions
photo by Hank Herrera © 2010
Our Regenerative Leadership retreat programs are designed to enable leaders to move back into their work and communities with renewed vigor and hope. But we can support them even more by also reaching and supporting their colleagues, and those they serve.
The Center’s Regenerative Community Workshops & Discussions extend and deepen public conversation about our times and the life of our communities. Through community-based humanities activities in towns and colleges throughout the region, these programs bring writers, thinkers and doers to engage communities around our shared rural and urban future in the Driftless Area and the ring of cities that surround it. Guests from diverse sectors help us examine the patterns to our problems and how we might, together, “solve for pattern.” These programs are an effort to welcome everyone to a local table for the great work of our age – the pursuit of regenerative communities that are socially just and ecologically and economically sustainable.
Several formats are available:
Galena Main street, photo by Thomas Merton
A Regenerative Community Workshop can be custom designed to meet the unique needs of a given community.- Any Regenerative Community Workshop can be coupled with other formats like a smaller Regenerative Leadership Retreat or a Regenerative Society Conference reaching out to a broader audience.
- Our special guest at a Regenerative Leadership Retreat can facilitate roving Regenerative Community discussions in neighboring communities on either end of a retreat.
- Through our program and development associate, Gary Holthaus, we also offer the “Up for Discussion” series in communities throughout our service territory. For the series, a community’s library makes texts available for pickup or online to focus the conversation around a theme related to regenerative society, communities, and leadership. Meetings are held once a week for four weeks to think through the texts, discover how they relate to our own lives and the life of our communities, and what they portend for our future. At other times in local venues there will be public readings on these themes offered by regionally and nationally known writers with a discussion following.
Upcoming Regenerative Community workshops and discussions:
(in development, dates to be announced)
If you would like to be kept informed about upcoming programs of this type, indicate your interest here and we’ll keep you posted!
If you would like to consider developing a program for your community, use the Contact Us form here.
The Gifts of Good Land, photo by Karin Leonard