Community Cultivators
Events that Move Community beyond the status Quo
Designed to create connections, provoke relational insight and offer pragmatic skills, our community cultivators bring together experts, heart-centered leaders, and citizens who care about specific community issues.
Cultivators usually center around curated conversations. Our formula for success is:
Mindfully collaborating with local industry leaders to curate an intentional panel discussion that fuels our civic awareness.
Incorporating small group discussions to foster deeper engagement.
Presenting provocative facts and reflection questions to stimulate critical thinking and personal personal insights and group dialogue.
Ensuring an approachable format that facilitates open communication between panelists and participants.
These events equalize the perspectives of both panelists and participants---fostering a non-hierarchical approachable atmosphere.
Our goal is that people who joins us emerge with deeper social insights and a strong commitment to fostering social capital in their daily lives..
UPCOMING SPRING 2025 Community Cultivator
Spreading Civility in our Political Discourse
The goal of this specific session is to curate an infrastructure of positive relationships across our differences and divisions. Conversational civility is a form of activism in changing our community norms from “Us vs Them” to embracing ideological diversity. This session provides diverse insights on how to make that shift.
Panelists and Participants will focus on how to:
· Move beyond ideological tug of war with people in your personal lives who think differently on any political issue
· How to reduce fear about politics, or allow differences to damage you or a relationship
· How to reduce dehumanization during conversations or in our personal public responses
· What to do during stale-mates of opinion, perspective and preferences
Past Cultivator Events
In November of 2024, we gathered an impressive panel and moderator together with a vibrantly diverse audience at Grassroots Kava House. Together, we fostered more collaborative and informed awareness regarding the people who serve, and deeply benefit from, our local Hospitality Industry. Our aim was to educate and learn from one another, to consider our personal impact on the humans within this system and to raise our conscious choice making in how to honor and support their valuable contribution.
