Coming Home: Reconnecting with Land, Food, and Community

With Special Guest: Duncan Cryle from Clear Sky Retreat Center

We've become disconnected—from the land we live on, from knowing where our food comes from, from deep community.

Modern systems have isolated us from each other and from nature, leaving us fragmented and anxious about an uncertain future.

But coming home is possible—and essential. The future won't be a return to the past. We can't predict what's coming, but we know this: strong resilience is essential for co-creating the future we want. And that resilience comes through healing and reconnecting with community, land, and food—the foundations for any healthy emerging future.

What We'll Explore:
• Understanding Disconnection: How modern economic systems have separated us from land, food sources, and meaningful community
• What Resilience Actually Means: Building adaptive capacity for uncertain times through genuine reconnection—not just "bouncing back" but "bouncing forward"
• Three Essential Reconnections:

• Land & Place: Discovering your bioregion and why place-based belonging matters
• Food: Moving from consumer to grower, understanding food sovereignty
• Community: Building genuine relationships of mutual aid and collective wisdom

• Bioregional Resilience: How community spaces can become "refugia"—places where connection deepens and new possibilities emerge

What to Expect:
This 90-minute session combines:

• teaching and real-life stories from Duncan’s 20 years of co-creating an intentional community.
• meditation practices to help you connect with your own experience.
• interactive small groups to explore what's helping you build resilience
• collective wisdom harvesting.

About Duncan:
Duncan Cryle is Co-Executive Director at Clear Sky Retreat Center, bringing 35 years of meditation practice and 20 years co-developing an integral community as a "living lab" for collective wisdom. He previously pioneered workplace mindfulness programs at IBM and SS&C Technologies. Through Conscious Organizations, he helps mission-driven teams build genuine trust and collective intelligence.

Learn more at clearskycenter.org and consciousorganizations.com

Where, when and how much?
When: Thursday, March 19, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM MST
Where: Tuxedo Community Hall, 202-29th Avenue NE · Calgary, AB
90 minutes including teaching, guided reflection, and generous time for questions and discussion.

Pay from the Heart (suggested $20-$30)
Everyone is welcome to participate regardless of financial circumstances. Please join us and offer whatever your situation allows. There will be a bowl and card tap at the door.

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