Making Sanctuary

Location: Mt. Olivet Conference Center, Farmington, MN (35 mins south of MSP Airport)

What is new this year?

Days: Monday-Thursday

Location: Mt. Olivet Conference Center, Farmington, MN (35 mins south of MSP Airport)

Flow, including Leadership Path sessions each afternoon: Whole Person Leadership for Women, Art of Convening CoLab

What you can count on:

• wonderful, courageous people who add value to our lives every day

• conversations you don’t want to miss

• networking and “camp” experiences

What we know: the way we gather shapes what becomes possible.

What would it mean in your life to make a little more sanctuary? Making sanctuary is a practice. Imagine gatherings where hospitality and generosity shape the tone of every conversation. Instead of being framed by scarcity, dialogues focus on gifts, strengths, and shared possibilities. Community members show up not as passive consumers—waiting for someone else to solve problems—but as citizens, offering their contributions and “confronting one another with their gifts”*.

Just as no crop can exceed the quality of the soil from which it grows, no encounter can exceed the quality of the relational ground in which it happens. Making sanctuary is, in this frame, the practice of tending social soil: cultivating intention, quality of listening, depth of holding, clarity of relational boundaries — not as preconditions for something else to happen, but as the thing itself.”

We will explore the meaning and practices of sanctuary as tending and enriching the social soil that is already so rich in the CPL community.

*Peter Block, Community: The Structure of Belonging

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