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ALL TIMES LISTED ARE CENTRAL U.S.
The Community Hearth and some events are free to attend.
Join CPL Communities for access to all events.
Photography, audio, and video recording may occur during any CPL event, and by entering the event, you consent to the use of these recordings for various purposes for CPL.
12/2 Featured Event
Upcoming Events
In an era where we are constantly told we are a divided people, CPL is committed to convening opportunities to remember our shared humanity and discover our common values of caring for one another.
Join us at CPL Communities to become part of a vibrant community of purposeful leaders like you.
What to look for at each CPL Gathering?
Structures of purposeful community:
Meet fellow change agents.
Find new friends/allies.
Deepen friendships and collaborations.
Explore new ways of thinking and being.
Be inspired by an awesome community.
Upcoming Events Schedule
Community Hearth: 9-10 am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
Community Hearth: 9-10 am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
Fuel the Future Virtual Breakfast on Giving Tuesday
Schedule:
7:45-8:00 am: Gathering & Connecting
8:00-9:00 am: Fuel the Future Virtual Breakfast
9:00-9:15 am: After-Party & Networking
CPL Connect
CPLC Connect: More ways to be in community
1st & 3rd Wednesdays · 9:00 - 10:00am CT US
Join Gloria Wagner and Paul McCarthy
Updates on all things CPL and Community Member Community of Practice!
What brought you to CPL?
What can CPL do for you?
Whether you are new to CPL Communities or have been here a while, do you know how to navigate the network, the platform, events, find people, connect?
Join Gloria Wagner and Paul McCarthy to learn more about this Community of Practice.
Whole Person Leadership Fall Purpose Circles
Join the next
Living on Purpose Coaching Circle
October 2 - December 18
Led by Lynn Nelson and Kim Kristenson-Lee
If you are interested in an amazing opportunity to connect with other Whole Person Leaders around the authentic you, join the next Living on Purpose Coaching Circle.
During your Whole Person Leadership cohort, you articulated your purpose and plan for living that purpose. We will gather bi-weekly within a community of allies ready to help you reach your next destination.
The focus will be on YOU and short discussion topics related to living out your Purpose Plan. Within this peer circle, you’ll have time to share your triumphs, tribulations and receive feedback.
The most positive impact for me is understanding where my strengths and weaknesses are, especially with my organization; I am trying to impart that onto my employees so that they understand that we need to be organized and forward-thinking when planning and even in the daily work that we do.
WPL helped me recognize that where I am on my journey of life right now is the right place for me to be at this moment.
Advancement Action Council
CPL Advancement Action Council
The Advancement Action Council serves as an expression of and a practice space for convening, guided by the methods and principles of the Art of Convening. Our ongoing meetings will generally follow the Art of Convening Wheel format, ensuring a structured and meaningful experience for all. Together, we aim to build, cultivate, grow, activate, foster, nurture, and inspire each other and our community.
✨April: 21st AoC year ✨November: 30th CPL/Heartland year
(I) Membership/ Engagement
Strategic Alliances
(II) Alumni Development
AoC Re-envisioning
(III) Development/Fundraising
Strategic Partners
(IV) Event Planning/Programs
Strategic Partners
(V) AoC Re-envisioning
If you have gifts to bring to the CPL community, contact Patricia Neal to learn more: pneal@centerfpl.org
Community Hearth: 9-10 am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
Essential Conversations: The Change Maker’s Competency Wheel
The Change Maker’s Competency Wheel: Becoming the Change, Beyond Leadership and Management
With Gisela Wendling, Ph.D.
CEO, The Grove Consultants International
Originator, Wendling Liminal Pathways Change Framework TM
Change is Fundamental to the Human Experience
CPL is thrilled to welcome longtime friend, and colleague Gisela Wendling. Gisela is a thought leader in the fields of change, change behaviors, and liminality.
Change confidence is not the absence of fear or doubt. It is the ability to stay in relationship with what’s unfolding, even when clarity is incomplete.
It is the capacity to stay present, grounded and aligned even when outcomes are unknown. This is not confidence based on having all the answers, but on being in a generative relationship with uncertainty.
In her latest blog post, Gisela discusses the meaning of change confidence and outline the four competency areas that work together to strengthen your capacity to engage uncertainty to support positive transformation.
“At the center of my research and organization consulting practice is working with change. I focus on collaboratively engaging people to tap into their intelligence, energy, and capabilities as they move through the phases of a change process. As CEO of The Grove Consultants International, my team and I work across all levels of systems, from coaching individual leaders and their teams to partnering with clients to co-designing and guiding whole-systems change.”
Whether you’re leading a team, facilitating transformation or navigating a personal transition, true change confidence allows you to trust your capacity to meet the moment and respond to what is emerging.
Who is this event for?
Those who consider leading as a sacred practice
Change practitioners and leaders who are interested in exploring the inner and outer practices and learnings necessary to navigate the rapid transformation and change of these times.
“What is coming will transform us.”
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At CPL, our mission is grounded in principles and practices of convening. We cultivate and inspire leaders from all walks of life to be engaged, inspired, and part of essential conversations that imagine and build a world that works for all. We believe that anyone can be a change agent and set intentions that have a positive impact on those we serve.
We have the honor and pleasure of partnering with organizations and individuals from across the globe to engage and focus on what matters and empower you to innovate, to lead.
Each month we host an intentional, convened thought leadership conversation. Please join us! Read below to learn more about this month’s Essential Conversations.
Make a donation today to support the Essential Conversations and CPL’s work of creating a world that works for all.
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Community Hearth: 9-10 am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
CPL Connect
CPLC Connect: More ways to be in community
1st & 3rd Wednesdays · 9:00 - 10:00am CT US
Join Gloria Wagner and Paul McCarthy
Updates on all things CPL and Community Member Community of Practice!
What brought you to CPL?
What can CPL do for you?
Whether you are new to CPL Communities or have been here a while, do you know how to navigate the network, the platform, events, find people, connect?
Join Gloria Wagner and Paul McCarthy to learn more about this Community of Practice.
Whole Person Leadership Fall Purpose Circles
Join the next
Living on Purpose Coaching Circle
October 2 - December 18
Led by Lynn Nelson and Kim Kristenson-Lee
If you are interested in an amazing opportunity to connect with other Whole Person Leaders around the authentic you, join the next Living on Purpose Coaching Circle.
During your Whole Person Leadership cohort, you articulated your purpose and plan for living that purpose. We will gather bi-weekly within a community of allies ready to help you reach your next destination.
The focus will be on YOU and short discussion topics related to living out your Purpose Plan. Within this peer circle, you’ll have time to share your triumphs, tribulations and receive feedback.
The most positive impact for me is understanding where my strengths and weaknesses are, especially with my organization; I am trying to impart that onto my employees so that they understand that we need to be organized and forward-thinking when planning and even in the daily work that we do.
WPL helped me recognize that where I am on my journey of life right now is the right place for me to be at this moment.
Community Hearth: 9-10 am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
CPL Connect
CPLC Connect: More ways to be in community
1st & 3rd Wednesdays · 9:00 - 10:00am CT US
Join Gloria Wagner and Paul McCarthy
Updates on all things CPL and Community Member Community of Practice!
What brought you to CPL?
What can CPL do for you?
Whether you are new to CPL Communities or have been here a while, do you know how to navigate the network, the platform, events, find people, connect?
Join Gloria Wagner and Paul McCarthy to learn more about this Community of Practice.
Community Hearth: 9-10 am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
Whole Person Leadership Fall Purpose Circles
Join the next
Living on Purpose Coaching Circle
October 2 - December 18
Led by Lynn Nelson and Kim Kristenson-Lee
If you are interested in an amazing opportunity to connect with other Whole Person Leaders around the authentic you, join the next Living on Purpose Coaching Circle.
During your Whole Person Leadership cohort, you articulated your purpose and plan for living that purpose. We will gather bi-weekly within a community of allies ready to help you reach your next destination.
The focus will be on YOU and short discussion topics related to living out your Purpose Plan. Within this peer circle, you’ll have time to share your triumphs, tribulations and receive feedback.
The most positive impact for me is understanding where my strengths and weaknesses are, especially with my organization; I am trying to impart that onto my employees so that they understand that we need to be organized and forward-thinking when planning and even in the daily work that we do.
WPL helped me recognize that where I am on my journey of life right now is the right place for me to be at this moment.
Essential Conversations: Space is Not Empty
Join us! Space is Not Empty:
How Hidden Fields Are Shaping Your Life and Our World
With Alan Briskin and Mary Gelinas, EdD
Wednesday, November 12 // 9:00-10:30am CT US
Tales from the Field…
Have you ever walked into a room and known immediately that something was off? Maybe your skin tingled or your stomach clenched, maybe you noticed how eyes were averted or chatter was strained. Or maybe the opposite was true and you were walking into a place of safety and comfort, where your breathing came more easily, your heart rate calmed, and your tension melted away.
In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary book, Alan Briskin and Mary V. Gelinas weave together a combined eighty years of experience in social psychology, systems thinking, and contemplative practices to explain how fields influence us physically, emotionally, and intuitively-often without our conscious awareness.
These are the spaces where old ways of being and thinking no longer hold, and the choices we make bring us to the next awareness.
Three years ago…
Alan Briskin, Mary Gelinas EdD
Alan and Mary brought this question to the 2023 Fall Retreat community: What if we could learn to pay attention to these fields that are operating in and around us, understand their messages, and use them to act more intentionally and compassionately?
Next they invited their many communities (including CPL) to discover the emergent field and collective wisdom that became the book. We are thrilled to welcome them back.
Five Things to Know About Fields
Fields are:
Ever-present. They exist inside and around us.
Unnoticed. They affect us outside of conscious awareness.
Dynamic: They are constantly changing, progressing, and dissipating.
Multi-directional: Fields affect us and we affect them. Multiple overlapping fields generate unlimited variations.
Discernable: They can be known through body sensations, subjective experience, intuition, and trial and error observations.
We live in one interconnected reality of living fields from subatomic, atomic, to cosmic.
What will we do?
Discover how awareness of these dynamic spaces can help foster collaborative relationships, bridge social, political, and religious divides, and effect more constructive, meaningful, and lasting change.
Who is this for?
Friends and followers of the Space is Not Empty exploration.
Change practitioners and leaders who are interested in exploring the inner and outer practices and learnings necessary to navigate the rapid transformation and change of these times.
“This book will make a groundbreaking and vital contribution to the theory and practice of social transformation.”
We welcome you to give what you can: every donation supports CPL in offering these community spaces for welcome, safety, belonging, and emergence.
A recording of Alan and Mary’s remarks will be available to all who register.
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At CPL, our mission is grounded in principles and practices of convening. We cultivate and inspire leaders from all walks of life to be engaged, inspired, and part of essential conversations that imagine and build a world that works for all. We believe that anyone can be a change agent and set intentions that have a positive impact on those we serve.
We have the honor and pleasure of partnering with organizations and individuals from across the globe to engage and focus on what matters and empower you to innovate, to lead.
Each month we host an intentional, convened thought leadership conversation. Please join us! Read below to learn more about this month’s Essential Conversations.
Make a donation today to support the Essential Conversations and CPL’s work of creating a world that works for all.
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Community Hearth: 9-10 am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
Advancement Action Council
The Advancement Action Council serves as an expression of and a practice space for convening, guided by the methods and principles of the Art of Convening. Our ongoing meetings will generally follow the Art of Convening Wheel format, ensuring a structured and meaningful experience for all. Together, we aim to build, cultivate, grow, activate, foster, nurture, and inspire each other and our community.
✨April: 21st AoC year ✨November: 30th CPL/Heartland year
(I) Membership/ Engagement
Strategic Alliances
(II) Alumni Development
AoC Re-envisioning
(III) Development/Fundraising
Strategic Partners
(IV) Event Planning/Programs
Strategic Partners
(V) AoC Re-envisioning
If you have gifts to bring to the CPL community, contact Patricia Neal to learn more: pneal@centerfpl.org
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CPL Connect
CPLC Connect: More ways to be in community
Wednesdays · 9:00 - 10:00am CT US
Join Gloria Wagner and Paul McCarthy
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81813229417
Updates on all things CPL and Community Member Community of Practice!
What brought you to CPL?
What can CPL do for you?
Whether you are new to CPL Communities or have been here a while, do you know how to navigate the network, the platform, events, find people, connect?
Join Gloria Wagner and Patricia Neal to learn more about this Community of Practice.
Community Hearth: 9-10 am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
Whole Person Leadership Fall Purpose Circles
Join the next
Living on Purpose Coaching Circle
October 2 - December 18
Led by Lynn Nelson and Kim Kristenson-Lee
If you are interested in an amazing opportunity to connect with other Whole Person Leaders around the authentic you, join the next Living on Purpose Coaching Circle.
During your Whole Person Leadership cohort, you articulated your purpose and plan for living that purpose. We will gather bi-weekly within a community of allies ready to help you reach your next destination.
The focus will be on YOU and short discussion topics related to living out your Purpose Plan. Within this peer circle, you’ll have time to share your triumphs, tribulations and receive feedback.
The most positive impact for me is understanding where my strengths and weaknesses are, especially with my organization; I am trying to impart that onto my employees so that they understand that we need to be organized and forward-thinking when planning and even in the daily work that we do.
WPL helped me recognize that where I am on my journey of life right now is the right place for me to be at this moment.
Community Hearth: 9-10 am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
Réunion du premier atelier « L'Art de Convoquer » AoC Euro
Bonjour and Félicitations from Patricia, Craig, Dominique, Brigette, Claudia, Carolin, Armelle!
Nous avons été très heureux d’accueillir le premier atelier « Art of Convening » mardi.
Nous avons apprécié votre présence et votre participation.
Le post LinkedIn d’Olivier décrit parfaitement l’Atelier.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7371459080797827072/
Nous sommes ravis d'annoncer une date de réunion via Zoom. Nous vous invitons à nous rejoindre.
Réunion Zoom AoC Europe
Détails : Jeudi 23 octobre
11h30-13h00
Au plaisir de vous accueillir ! Inscrivez-vous ici :
9 Aspects de la Roue de la Collaboration
Community Hearth: 9-10am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
5th Annual CPL Fall Retreat 2025
Roots & Rising
30 Years of Purposeful Leadership
CPL Vision: A just, inclusive and interconnected world—a world that works for all.
What leadership is needed NOW to co-create a world that works for all?
Join us as we reconnect, engage, collaborate to consider a shared, positive future, in community.
We will again design a collaborative hybrid event with participation roles for in-person and virtual interaction.
The world continues to pivot; our lives continue to evolve. As Purposeful Leaders, holders of space, and conveners of change, it is crucial to have the opportunity to pause and gather the learnings from these past impactful months.
To create a future world that does work for a majority of people on the planet, we need to engage in new ways! What can we dream together? We have the opportunity to create a future vision, and then learn how to live into it. Together.
Whole Person Leadership Fall Purpose Circles
Join the next
Living on Purpose Coaching Circle
October 2 - December 18
Led by Lynn Nelson and Kim Kristenson-Lee
If you are interested in an amazing opportunity to connect with other Whole Person Leaders around the authentic you, join the next Living on Purpose Coaching Circle.
During your Whole Person Leadership cohort, you articulated your purpose and plan for living that purpose. We will gather bi-weekly within a community of allies ready to help you reach your next destination.
The focus will be on you and short discussion topics related to living out your Purpose Plan. Within this peer circle, you’ll have time to share your triumphs, tribulations and receive feedback.
”The most positive impact for me is understanding where my strengths and weaknesses are, especially with my organization; I am trying to impart that onto my employees so that they understand thatwe need to be organized and forward-thinking when planning and even in the daily work that we do.
WPL helped me recognize that where I am on my journey of life right now is the right place for me to be at this moment.”
Community Hearth: 9-10am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
CPL Connect
CPLC Connect: More ways to be in community
Thursdays · 9:00 - 10:00am CT US
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85358441898
Updates on all things CPL and Community Member Community of Practice!
What brought you to CPL?
What can CPL do for you?
Whether you are new to CPL Communities or have been here a while, do you know how to navigate the network, the platform, events, find people, connect?
Join Gloria Wagner and Patricia Neal to learn more about this Community of Practice.
Community Hearth: 9-10am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
Advancement Action Council
CPL Advancement Action Council
The Advancement Action Council serves as an expression of and a practice space for convening, guided by the methods and principles of the Art of Convening. Our ongoing meetings will generally follow the Art of Convening Wheel format, ensuring a structured and meaningful experience for all. Together, we aim to build, cultivate, grow, activate, foster, nurture, and inspire each other and our community.
✨April: 21st AoC year ✨November: 30th CPL/Heartland year
(I) Membership/ Engagement
Strategic Alliances
(II) Alumni Development
AoC Re-envisioning
(III) Development/Fundraising
Strategic Partners
(IV) Event Planning/Programs
Strategic Partners
(V) AoC Re-envisioning
If you have gifts to bring to the CPL community, contact Patricia Neal to learn more: pneal@centerfpl.org
Whole Person Leadership Fall Purpose Circles
Join the next
Living on Purpose Coaching Circle
October 2 - December 18
Led by Lynn Nelson and Kim Kristenson-Lee
If you are interested in an amazing opportunity to connect with other Whole Person Leaders around the authentic you, join the next Living on Purpose Coaching Circle.
During your Whole Person Leadership cohort, you articulated your purpose and plan for living that purpose. We will gather bi-weekly within a community of allies ready to help you reach your next destination.
The focus will be on YOU and short discussion topics related to living out your Purpose Plan. Within this peer circle, you’ll have time to share your triumphs, tribulations and receive feedback.
The most positive impact for me is understanding where my strengths and weaknesses are, especially with my organization; I am trying to impart that onto my employees so that they understand that we need to be organized and forward-thinking when planning and even in the daily work that we do.
WPL helped me recognize that where I am on my journey of life right now is the right place for me to be at this moment.
Community Hearth: 9-10am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
Community Hearth: 9-10am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
Advancement Action Council
CPL Advancement Action Council
The Advancement Action Council serves as an expression of and a practice space for convening, guided by the methods and principles of the Art of Convening. Our ongoing meetings will generally follow the Art of Convening Wheel format, ensuring a structured and meaningful experience for all. Together, we aim to build, cultivate, grow, activate, foster, nurture, and inspire each other and our community.
✨April: 21st AoC year ✨November: 30th CPL/Heartland year
(I) Membership/ Engagement
Strategic Alliances
CPL Connect
CPLC Connect: More ways to be in community
Thursdays · 11:00am - 12:00pm CT US
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85358441898
Updates on all things CPL and Community Member Community of Practice!
What brought you to CPL?
What can CPL do for you?
Whether you are new to CPL Communities or have been here a while, do you know how to navigate the network, the platform, events, find people, connect?
Join Gloria Wagner and Patricia Neal to learn more about this Community of Practice.
Community Hearth: 9-10am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
Art of Convening Paris Launch
Invitation to a Special Event – The Art of Convening
Voir l'invitation ici: https://vimeo.com/1103113889?share=copy#t=0
The Launch of The Art of Convening in France and #Europe
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 – From 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
74 rue Orfila, #Paris 20e
Patricia and Craig Neal, who developed this powerful approach, will both be in #Paris for the first time to share the experience and wisdom on:
How to transform meetings into spaces for deep exchange, emerging energy and collective engagement, where every voice matters....
Discover the 9-step method, designed to create a bridge between what is happening inside ourselves and in the world around us—between the human and the operational.
The event will conclude with a vegetarian buffet.
Voluntary and conscious contribution.
the event will be in English with translation into French.
Your presence will make a difference!
To register: https://lnkd.in/dTSPbJUi
We look forward to seeing you there!
Brigitte & Dominique
Brigitte Evano Lallouet & Dominique Ache
You can also contact Patricia to learn more: pneal@centerfpl.org
Community Hearth: 9-10am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
Community Hearth: 9-10am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
Community Hearth: 9-10am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
Community Hearth: 9-10am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
CPL Community Gathering: Dream Session
CPL Community Gatherings:
Dream Session
Thursday, August 7, 9:00-10:30 am CT US
CPL's vision (needed more than ever):
A just, inclusive, and interconnected world - a world that works for all.... creating a culture in service to life.
At CPL I find this every time:💡 Motivation. Momentum. Passion. The energy to keep showing up and stewarding my dreams. - John Armstrong, Full Spectrum Coaching
Dear Valued Member of the CPL Community,
More than ever, our strength comes in the collective wisdom of FIVE generations fueling our mission. CPL stands as a vibrant hub and ecosystem of visionaries and creators. More than ever, we uplift and empower one another to transform dreams into reality.
Join us for an inspiring community session:
Our dreams matter. Join us for an inspiring community session where everyone is welcome to share and explore visions for the future. Let's dream together, exchanging aspirations and insights. This is how we amplify and elevate each other for collective impact.
What will we do?
Find motivation in your own voice and ideas.
Be in community with people like you who care about our future.
Y/our aspirations are pivotal in shaping a future where everyone thrives, fostering a culture that celebrates life.
How can we envision a world that truly works for all? By working together. Collaborating together. Nourishing each other’s dreams.
Our Collaboration Partners:
Imagine building a world that works for all: It's what we do each time we gather.
We look forward to seeing you on JULY 1.
Patricia Neal
Executive Director, Center for Purposeful Leadership
Questions? just want to talk? Let's connect: https://meetings.hubspot.com/patricia-neal
