Workshops
Reflective Imagineering
A Collaborative Workshop
Available Worldwide
This workshop takes a holistic understanding and approach reviewing the current state of the team as well as together engineering a vision for the next 1-5 years using our imaginations. The approach will incorporate personal reflection as well as a team. The workshop is divided into 4 different sections; State of Team, Lament, Reflect/Growth, Celebration, and Imagineering.
State of the Union: Through a time of reflective questions we will seek to understand where/ how the team is currently doing, as individuals and as a team
Lamentation: We will look at the importance of lament and its role in healing and explore areas that the team needs to have both time and space to lament together.
Growth: Lament to Healing is a process of growth that can be seen/ realized through reflection, personally and as a group. There will be a focus on understanding the importance of holistic growth.
Celebrate: In this section, we will seek to understand the importance of celebration and the role that both our identity and rest place in it.
Imagineering: We need to free ourselves from the possibility of failure and disappointment. To do so we will look at imagination and what are our hindrances to it and possible solutions and exercises we can practice. There will be several activities looking at hopes, change, as well as 1 and 5-year visions for the community.
A Collaborative Training in 7 Stages
Available Worldwide
Community Exploration
This is a resource available to individuals and teams who are interested in understanding more about the neighborhood/community/culture where they are located. As an organization, restoration is one of our values.
However, sometimes we struggle with what that means or could look like in the community where we are situated.
This tool is helpful not only for those who are interested in exploring the possibility of what cultural engagement could look like in their neighborhood, but also for those who have already started in such an initiative.
The material takes the team through topics and activities such as:
Stage 1: Ownership, A Heart Check
Stage 2: Wandering
Stage 3: Importance of Place (Past)
Stage 4: Discovery, Mapping Our Place (Current)
Stage 5: Story-Telling (Present)
Stage 6: Investigate, Fact Finding, Statistics (Current)
Stage 7: Imagination, A Heart of Hope (Future)
An introduction to the workshop lasts about one hour. The timeline for the 7 stages is determined individually by the person, cohort or organization desiring to go through the stages.
The New Sanctuary
An interactive Workshop
Available Worldwide
This roundtable looks at what types of spaces we are trying to create within our communities. We will be looking at the concepts/ideas of being bridge builders in our communities, of creating a space of confluence and, lastly, what it means to create an estuarial community.
These paradigms will help to give a practical structure through which to see and understand cultural renewal and all things being made new.
As an introduction, we will look at what we mean by space, and discuss what types of spaces we are wanting to create.
Bridge Builder:In the first part, we will unpack what it means to be a bridge builder and look at why a bridge may be built and if it is helpful or hurtful.
Confluence: In the next section, we will unpack what it means to be a space of confluence, what drawbacks there might be, and if we should be striving for more.
Estuary: Next we will look at the unique ecosystem of an estuary, the key elements and its value.
Lastly, we will dive a bit deeper by re-defining what a sanctuary is, and how we might strive for a dynamic holistic thriving space for our communities.
This series of roundtables runs around 2-3 hours.
A moving Workshop on our core values
Available Worldwide
Hallowed Ground
One of the core values of Cultural Renewal is that Personal Renewal will lead to Cultural Renewal. In all of our workshops and roundtables, we start off by examining our hearts, our understanding of ourselves, in regard to the particular topic that we are looking at.
It is essential that we ask what type of spaces we are engaging in and/or trying to create, in particular when looking at community. However, it is also just as important to ask ourselves what types of space are we creating for ourselves? In order for cultural renewal to occur, there has to be personal renewal.
There are 7 Spaces that we will be looking at:
Holding Space (Safe Space)
Space for Lament
Generous Space (Forgiveness)
Space in Nature
Space for Play
Space to Breath
Transitional Space
An introduction to the workshop lasts about one hour. The timeline for the 7 spaces is determined individually by the person, cohort or organization desiring to go through the stages.
New Horizons
An engaging Workshop
Available Worldwide
Are the many topics heatedly contested in the public sphere (sexuality, politics, race, environment, education, etc.) relevant to or a distraction? How might conversations around these topics point us and others? Is it even possible to have a conversation with someone whose opinions seem vehemently against ours? And what are our opinions based on, in this age of misinformation and disinformation? How do we Inform ourselves about issues in the culture around us?
There are 7 Modules in this Workshop:
Module 1. Why Are You here?
Module 2. Who am I?
Module 3. Us vs. Them — The Demonization of Others.
Module 4. Forming opinions
Module 5. Some Listening and Speaking Skills
Module 6. How to Discuss Honestly
Module 7. Seeking Truth and Solutions Together
An introduction to this workshop lasts about one hour. The timeline for the 7 stages is determined personally with the individual, cohort or organization desiring to go through the stages.
A new Workshop Rethinking Economics for a Shared Future
Available Worldwide
A common Home
This workshop series is designed for community leaders, facilitators, and organizers who are working to build inclusive and integrated communities, particularly in contexts involving migrant populations.
It is also suitable for individuals involved in social work, community development, or those in leadership roles within local organizations and institutions that interact with diverse community members.
Migration enriches societies with diversity and new perspectives but also brings challenges in fostering integration and belonging, both for migrants and long-term community members.
These workshops aim to address the often-overlooked social-cultural aspects of integration. The methodologies include storytelling, community mapping, self-reflection, collaborative exercises, and ongoing evaluation to adapt and refine the integration efforts continually.
By equipping leaders with tools to engage both newly joined and long-standing community members, this series seeks to build a more cohesive, empathetic, and inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.
