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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.
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.
Upcoming Events Schedule
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: 9-10 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.
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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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.
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
Essential Conversations: The Change Maker’s Spindle: Becoming the Change, Beyond Leadership and Management
The Change Maker’s Spindle: Becoming the Change, Beyond Leadership and Management
With Gisela Wendling, Ph.D.
CEO, The Grove Consultants International
Founder, 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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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
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
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
All-Things-Convening Monthly CoLab
All-Things-Convening Monthly CoLab
Free for all CPL Community Members.
Fri, July 18 (third Friday)
9:00am - 10:00am CST
Repeats monthly on the 2nd Friday
We'll use this time to explore different features, answer technical questions, and share general tips and creative ways to use convenings for your offerings.
Do you have any questions about setting up your convening or conversations?
Are you running into any challenges?
Or maybe you are looking for some inspiration for a project?
Free for all CPL Community Members.
Community Hearth: 9-10am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
Essential Conversations: Starifik: a journey of passion, vision, and commitment
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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.
“We are artists, we are creatives, and we represent this community in a positive way we are here as hope even if it doesn't give us like monetary value.”
This Essential Conversations follows the 2025 theme of manifesting big dreams on behalf of elevating humanity.
CPL is thrilled to welcome our partners from the Whysmen Pub and Starifik visionary team as they speak to their big dreams and commitment to get there.
Join the founder of Whysmen Pub, Paul McCarthy, and the Whysmen team speaking to their dreams: Part of being the change I want to see in the world is our Whysmen-sponsored project as we gather as a community to hold Anthem’s dream of building his community centre in our hearts.
We will explore the story of Starifik: Even under the recent duress happening in Kenya, our friends at Starifik continue to manifest their intention to create this community center on behalf of the youth of the Mathare “slums” in Nairobi with a population of approximately 500,000 people.
“I am at the Launch of the fourth annual Missing Voices Report on Extra-judicial Police Executions in Kenya, 2023. Social Justice Activists express profound and agonizing frustrations as they endure this annual ritual while such killings persist. They've lost many friends and family members, fearing their own lives while battling police violence for over a decade. They ask: ‘alongside documentation, protest & push for accountability, what else can we do?’”
What they do is continue to hold a big dream: offer hope over despair; offer places for youth to express their creativity, learn leadership skills, care for each other. Offer a place where all lives matter, to feel that they are worthy of life, worthy of being seen as human beings who matter, and have something to contribute to the world.
What does community mean to you? We’ll reflect on why community matters now more than ever.
What role do you believe individuals and communities have in supporting systemic change to combat injustice, and how could your personal actions align with larger movements dedicated to social justice?
Through storytelling, breakout discussions, and shared reflection, we’ll consider what it means to value the humanity of each person, and how each of us can play a part in building a more connected world.
Who This Is For
Anyone curious to explore:
Deepening their connection with others
Building community across cultures and geographies
Practicing humility, curiosity, and communication in conversation
Being the change you want to see in the world.
Make a donation today to support the Essential Conversations and CPL’s work of creating a world that works for all.
Community Hearth: 9-10am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
CPL Connect
CPL Communities Connect (aka Office Hours)
What is CPL Communities? What are all the features of your CPL community?
Free for all CPL Community Members.
CPL Members, join Patricia Neal, CPL Executive Director.
Updates on all things CPL and Community Builder Community of Practice!
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?
We'll use this time to explore different features, answer technical questions.
CPL Community Gathering: Dream Session (rescheduled from 6/18)
CPL Community Gatherings:
Dream Session
Tues July 1, 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 on July 1:
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
Community Hearth: 9-10am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
Spring Fundraising Campaign
IT’S SPRING FUNDRAISING TIME! Final Day!
A generous donor stepped up with a matching grant to keep the campaign going through today.
"Passing the Torch" to future generations for legacy and growth!
FIVE Generations Strong: our strength comes in the collective wisdom of 5 generations fueling our mission.
CPL is a vibrant hub and ecosystem of visionaries and creators:
Art of Convening (21st year!) re-envisioned for the next 21 years.
Inspiring Collaboration Partners.
New Passing-the-Torch Mentorship program.
Amazing volunteers and interns.
🌿 Double Your Impact!
Double your impact! We have a $1,500 matching grant!
PLUS with gifts of $30 or more:
Help us uplift and empower one another to transform dreams into reality.
We thank you for every way you contribute to this vibrant, impactful community.
With gratitude,
Patricia Neal, Gloria Wagner, and the CPL Community