Call begins at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST)

Our Community Calls provide peer support, discussion forums and guest workshops for retreat center leaders. To join us on a Community Call, please subscribe to the mailing list. You’ll receive a reminder email with the Zoom link the day before each call.

Facilitators: Stanley Wu, Oren Slozberg

Topic: Resilience Within Climate Chaos, Part 3

Join us for a conversation led by Stan and Oren on January 21st about challenges and possibilities for retreat centers given this current political, social, and ecological moment. 

This past year has been a moment of deep restructuring in the US and globally. The climate crisis is accelerating, and so is artificial intelligence, authoritarian governments, polarization and a mental health crisis — among many other things that could be named. 

We are living through a time of remarkable transformation. While our minds naturally focus on what is unsettling or uncertain, it’s also true this period holds new possibilities. All around us, new paths are opening up — some subtle, others revolutionary — that invite us to reimagine how we live, work, and connect with each other. 

Join us to reflect on the salient challenges and possibilities we imagine are ahead for ourselves and retreat centers. This collective exercise can help see paths forward and expand our own vision of what lies ahead. 

Please spend a moment before our gathering to reflect on this question and come prepared to share. 

Resilience, as we’ve come to understand, is not only focused on adapting to change and challenge, but contributing to a thriving future. We are asked to look both backwards and forwards at the same time.