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Essential Conversations: Re-envisioning The Art of Convening for the next 30 years
Re-envisioning The Art of Convening: Purposeful Leadership Re-imagined
Your community or organization is navigating disruption like never before. You need leaders who can create welcome, safety, and belonging—not someday, but now.
January 28th: Join us to explore the AoC Re-Envisioning Team's new tools designed for exactly this challenge.
Conversation starters include CPL co-founder Craig Neal and The AoC Re-envisioning Team:
Kim Kristenson-Lee, Brent Schmidt, Cecily Victor, Craig Neal, Terry Chapman, Jerry Chang, Pamela Meade, Patricia Neal, Hart Edmonds, Amber Yang, Ric Hinkie
Save Your Spot Today!
Wednesday, January 28
9:00-10:30 am CT US
What is the AoC Re-Envisioning Team?
A year ago, in December 2024, during the 20th year of The Art of Convening, CPL co-founder, Craig Neal, formed the AoC Re-envisioning Team (mentioned above) to "re-envision Art of Convening" with this invitation:
“You are invited to collaborate on what is next for the Art of Convening. They say there are times when new stars are born in our galaxy, and the brightest shining ones take their place in new constellations. You have been shining in your life and its times, trials, and triumphs, as well as modeling Love in Action in our CPL orbit!
We invite you to be part of a re-envisioning of the CPL constellation! You’ve been integral to the development of the AoC Trainings, Workshops & Courses, and together we will begin to envision the future of AoC.”
Join us on January 28 to discover what this year-long process has discovered and co-created that will fuel the future of The AoC and the CPL community for the next 30 years!
What emerged? A process unlike anything we’ve created at CPL—co-created, co-imagined, within this foundational premise: When we change how we gather, we change what’s possible.
What was the process of the AoC Re-Envisioning Team?
During the Essential Conversation we will explore the wholly collaborative process the Re-envisioning Team engaged in including the “Re-envisioning Whiteboard” (below) as designed by AoC Re-Envisioning Team members Brent Schmidt, Strategic Fuel, with Kim Kristenson-Lee, Labyrinth Leadership
What has emerged from the AoC
Re-Envisioning Team?
A new understanding of the Art of Convening as a life practice and “north star” of knowing that being in right relationship is the beginning of collaborations that are creative and sustainable.
A new AoC web presence including:
A redesigned AoC main landing page on the CPL website
A redesigned Introduction to Convening online, self-directed course
An online, self-directed course called Make Meetings Great designed for use by organizations
A free, online AoC Field Guide that provides an introduction to the AoC
AoC programs which apply to 5 key areas of leadership (see the image below)
Save your spot today!
Support Essential Conversations and CPL!
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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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.
WPL4W 2026 Informational Session
Whole Person Leadership for Women
2018 - 2026
Cohort 9: March - May 2026
A Free 45-minute Information Session
Join Patricia Neal and Whole Person Leadership Faculty and alums to learn more about the Whole Person Leadership for Women program. We will explore these questions:
What is Whole Person Leadership for Women?
What is your dream for the next stage of your life or work?
Are you ready for your next-level leadership or next stage in life?
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
A key benefit for CPL Members
1st & 3rd Wednesdays · 9:00 - 10:00am CT US
Join Patricia Neal 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 Patricia Neal and Paul McCarthy to learn more about this Community of Practice.
WPL4W 2026 Informational Session
Whole Person Leadership for Women
2018 - 2026
Cohort 9: March - May 2026
A Free 45-minute Information Session
Join Patricia Neal and Whole Person Leadership Faculty and alums to learn more about the Whole Person Leadership for Women program. We will explore these questions:
What is Whole Person Leadership for Women?
What is your dream for the next stage of your life or work?
Are you ready for your next-level leadership or to transition to your next stage in life?
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 2026: 30th CPL/Heartland year begins
(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: How Shall I Stand Between River & Land?
How Shall I Stand Between River & Land?
Wednesday, February 11th
9:00-10:30 am CT US
by Leni De Mik
"Leni reminds us that we are not powerless. We can choose connection over isolation, seek out and listen to diverse voices and conversations, and build bridges to understanding."
Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak
Save Your Spot Today!
Wednesday, February 11
9:00-10:30 am CT US
IN A WORLD WITHOUT EASY ANSWERS, BEGIN WITH HEARTFELT QUESTIONS
In this profound blend of memoir and insight, clinical psychologist Leni de Mik invites readers into a journey from Nazi-occupied Holland to a life of healing, reflection, and purpose.
Rooted in her father's legacy in the Dutch Resistance, de Mik explores healing from trauma, reclaiming connection, and responding to moral uncertainty with courage and compassion.
Each chapter offers stories and "heart questions"-gentle prompts for journaling, self-inquiry, and deeper awareness.
Readers will discover how to:
Rebuild emotional resilience
Move from isolation to community
Act with integrity in uncertain times
Listen inwardly and live outwardly with care
How Shall I Stand Between River and Land? is not just an invitation to self-discovery, but a timely call to action from one of our last witnesses to a pivotal moment in history. It speaks directly to those discouraged by cultural shifts, afraid for the future, yearning for genuine connection, and committed to building a more just world."How Shall I Stand Between River and Land" is a guide for finding balance, connection, and purpose in uncertain times by blending memoir with self-inquiry, encouraging readers to connect their personal journeys with humanity's larger story. It's about building resilience, finding integrity, and acting with compassion, using "heart questions" to foster self-discovery and a heart-centered life, moving from isolation to community.
In essence, to "stand between river and land" is to find your grounded center (land) while flowing with life's currents (river) with wisdom and compassion.
Key themes and guidance:
Balance & Connection: Navigating personal growth and a meaningful relationship with the world, balancing inner life with outward action.
Resilience: Drawing on wisdom from trauma to build emotional strength and act with courage.
Purposeful Living: Moving from isolation to community, acting with integrity, fostering deeper self-awareness.
Heart-Centered Approach: Using "heart questions" for journaling and reflection to guide your path.
How to apply the concepts inspired by the book:
Reflect on Your "River" & "Land": Consider what flows (change, emotions, external world) versus what is stable (your core, community).
Listen Inward & Act Outward: Use self-inquiry to understand yourself, then act with care in the world.
Build Bridges: Choose connection over isolation and seek understanding.
Save your spot today!
Support Essential Conversations and CPL!
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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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.
WPL4W 2026 Informational Session
Whole Person Leadership for Women
2018 - 2026
Cohort 9: March - May 2026
A Free 45-minute Information Session
Join Patricia Neal and Whole Person Leadership Faculty and alums to learn more about the Whole Person Leadership for Women program. We will explore these questions:
What is Whole Person Leadership for Women?
What is your dream for the next stage of your life or work?
Are you ready for your next-level leadership or to transition to your next stage in life?
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
A key benefit for CPL Members
1st & 3rd Wednesdays · 9:00 - 10:00am CT US
Join Patricia Neal 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 Patricia Neal 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
Community Hearth: 9-10 am + 15-minute After-party
https://www.cplcommunities.org/spaces/13037179/content
WPL4W 2026 Informational Session
Whole Person Leadership for Women
2018 - 2026
Cohort 9: March - May 2026
A Free 45-minute Information Session
Join Patricia Neal and Whole Person Leadership Faculty and alums to learn more about the Whole Person Leadership for Women program. We will explore these questions:
What is Whole Person Leadership for Women?
What is your dream for the next stage of your life or work?
Are you ready for your next-level leadership or next stage in life?
CPL Connect
CPLC Connect: More ways to be in community
A key benefit for CPL Members
1st & 3rd Wednesdays · 9:00 - 10:00am CT US
Join Patricia Neal 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 Patricia Neal 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
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 Patricia Neal 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 Patricia Neal 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
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.
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
Essential Conversations: The Change Maker’s Competency Wheel
The Change Maker’s Competency Wheel:
Grow Your Change Confidence, and Be the Change
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.
In times of relentless upheaval, reacting to change is not enough. We have to grow our change confidence and be the change. To do this, we must evolve from the inside out. Today’s leaders are called not only to be the change but to be transformed by the very shifts they are navigating, and to steward transformations that generate positive outcomes for their teams, organizations and the larger systems they influence.
Change confidence 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.
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.
The Four Domains of the Change Maker’s Competency Wheel
Change Literacy: Understanding the patterns, phases and paradoxes of change is fundamental. Leaders who are literate in change processes can anticipate thresholds, normalize uncertainty and bring more confidence to lead others with more steadiness and coherence.
Inner & Outer Guidance: Transformational leadership requires both spiritual and practical forms of guidance. Leaders need ways to access their deeper knowing, cultivate reflective or meditative practices, and engage mentors, peers and helpers. Leadership is never a solitary act; it is relational and interdependent.
Emotional Fluidity: Disconnection and breakdowns in human connection are widespread. Leaders need to work skillfully with their own emotional range and support others in accessing theirs. Emotional fluidity creates the conditions for trust, respect and genuine participation—prerequisites for sustainable change.
Somatic Awareness: The body offers essential signals about ourselves, others and the wider field. Leaders who cultivate somatic awareness deepen grounded presence, recognize stress-levels, regulate somatic activation, and access intuitive clarity. This embodied steadiness strengthens resilience and supports healthier, more coherent responses in times of change.
What will we do?
We will open a reflective, high-level conversation about what it means to grow your change confidence and be the change. This is an invitation to consider how we meet uncertainty, stay connected to what matters and glimpse the capacities that support meaningful transformation.
Who is this event for?
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.
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Gisela Wendling, Ph.D.
CEO and Senior Consultant
Dr. Gisela Wendling is CEO at The Grove Consultants International. She supports leaders, their teams and their organizations to realize visionary futures by befriending the unknown, embracing change as transformational opportunity and supporting others in doing the same.
She is the author of The Liminal Pathways Study and is the originator of the Liminal Pathways Change System. She is also co-author (with David Sibbet) of Visual Consulting: Designing and Leading Change (published September 2018), the fourth book in the Wiley Visual Facilitation Series.
Working with generative and challenging dynamics of change is at the center of Gisela’s practice. In her consulting work, she collaboratively engages people from across the organization or stakeholder groups to tap into their intelligence, vision and capabilities to initiate and realize their desired future.
Gisela pairs a process orientation with systemic perspectives, as well as dialogic and visual approaches. Drawing on this synthesis, she creates unique, highly interactive, content-rich and outcome-focused transformative group experiences. When guiding professional development programs, she engages participants in learning experiences that combine conceptual understanding, practical application and personal growth.
As a leadership and team coach, Gisela works with senior executives wishing to develop their competence as transformational leaders. She supports them in learning to lead change processes more effectively, connect to their own vision, grow their self-awareness and relational skills and increase their capacity to stay centered through turbulent times.
She holds a doctorate from Fielding Graduate University’s School of human and organization development, and an M.A. in organization development and a B.A. in humanistic psychology from Sonoma State University in California. Her approach integrates disciplines from across the social sciences and builds on three decades of practical experience across four continents.
Earlier career experiences include working as an internal consultant for one of the top five consulting firms, time in the high-tech industry as director for learning and development, and as tenure track professor at Sonoma State University, where she also directed its MA Program in organization development. For several years Gisela had the opportunity to facilitate the California Roundtable on Water and Food Supply at Ag Innovations to support a statewide dialogue with key stakeholders to envision new solutions.
Born and raised in Germany, Dr. Wendling has lived in Australia and Canada and has spent most of her adult life on the West Coast of the United States. Having traveled widely, she has a particular affinity for the wisdom traditions of indigenous peoples. Gisela lives in Petaluma, California, with her husband David Sibbet. For more information about Gisela’s services and approach, see her website and her blog.
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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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
t
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
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