Peer Learning Circles provide a community of practice to support participants in their on-going learning goals. A PLC consists of 5-6 participants, plus a facilitator (one of your program leaders). Each PLC convenes by conference call on Zoom for two sessions following the retreat, with the opportunity for additional self-organized sessions in the future.
Our hope is that your experience in a Peer Learning Circle will allow you to think and reflect more deeply about what it’s been like to bring Courage & Renewal practices and values into your personal and/or professional life. PLCs offer space and time to dig into the practicality of what we focused on during the retreat. What challenges might you be facing in bringing these practices into your vocational settings? Where are you seeing new opportunities to integrate these practices and what might that look like for you? How are the values and practices informing how you show up in the spaces you occupy? These questions (and many others) are the types of practical considerations you might bring to your PLC to leverage the support and wisdom of your peers, as well as your own inner teacher. As you walk through this experience, it also serves as a useful guide for how you can apply this process moving forward with others, whether in this learning community or in other settings where you find it might be helpful.
Participants will come to each call with a “learning goal” – a question, action or issue around which they want to receive support (from the learning plans that arise from this retreat or some other issue they want to take priority for a particular call). Each person should also come with a plan for how they want to receive support from their fellow circle members, choosing from one or more of the following:
– Open Honest Questions – helps the presenter tap into their own calling and inner wisdom, and gain clarity
– Story Sharing – helps the presenter tap into the wisdom and experience of others
– Brainstorming – helps the presenter surface other ideas and approaches, without
judgment
– Resource Sharing – helps the presenter discover other teachers to support them in expanding their possibilities
In advance of each call, you might find it helpful to use the PLC Personal Worksheet we’ve provided to prepare your thoughts for the call and make note of things you’ve learned and actions you want to take in the days ahead.
PLC Groups
PLC Group 1 with Kirstin:
Thursdays, May 11 and June 1 // 8pm-10:30pm ET
Kesha Lee
Okie Nwakanma
Tera Gorman
Victoria Walchak
PLC Group 2 with Mike:
Fridays, May 12 and June 9 // 1pm-3:30pm ET
Michelle Bodle
Sibongile Musundwa
Tamar Kagan
Thomas Dean
Victoria Scott
PLC Group 3 with Mike:
Saturdays, May 13 and June 3 // 9am-11:30am ET
Karen Wagner
Kathleen Forrester
Lauren Arrington
Shirley Giroux
Troy Brunke
PLC Group 4 with Mike:
Sundays, May 14 and June 11 // 10am-12:30pm ET
Honor Moorman
Laurie Hofman
Loretta Staples
Lucia Eitzen
Saiyyidah Zaidi
Siat Yeow Kok
PLC Group 5 with Veta:
Mondays, May 15 and June 5 // 11am-1:30pm ET
Anusuya Rangarajan
Brandon Zicha
David Dill
Jacob Tonski
Maggie Chumbley
Paul Johnson
PLC Group 6 with Taylor:
Mondays, May 15 and June 5 // 6pm-8:30pm ET
Lucy Macgregor
Michael Zalar
Michelle Scott-Huffman
Stephanie Call
Will Forsythe
PLC Group 7 with Kirstin:
Fridays, May 19 and June 16 // 11am-1:30pm ET
Brian Donnelly
Hanne De Jaegher
Liz Norell
Marie Glaser
Sarah Merchant
PLC Group 8 with Veta:
Mondays, May 22 and June 19 // 10am-12:30pm ET
Amy Hoogervorst
Charlotte Lohrenz
Jane Blackall
Lisa Rhodes
Susan Hagstrom
Violet Stone
