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This month’s topic: Creating Conscious Holidays – following the concepts in the Five Essentials for a Resilient World, participants will explore and visualize their approach to the holiday season through the eyes of nature and the environment.
Colonial Church Heritage Room 7039 Mission Rd, Prairie Village https://www.colonialucc.org/
Colonial is located at the corner of 71st & Mission Rd. Use the parking lot directly to the south of the church. It can be accessed from 71st Street or Mission Road. Additionally there are 3 handicapped parking spots directly in front of the church. Please enter through the front door, located on the west side of the church. The Heritage room is upstairs on the main floor.
*The event is for ages 14 and up.
*Bring a light snack to share and your reusable beverage container (tea and water provided)
*There is no cost for this event; donations are welcome.
Register using the form
*The event is for ages 14 and up.
*Bring a light snack to share and your reusable beverage container (tea and water provided)
*Bring a chair or blanket to sit on
*There is no cost for this event; donations are welcome.
Directions:
Your map software should easily direct you to Camp Lake of the Woods on Oakwood Rd in Swope Park just off I-435 and Gregory Blvd (71st Street). Turn into the entrance at the sign (shown above) and the Hogan will be 4/10 of a mile along the road on the left hand side. It’s a rusty/red round building with a chimney. Watch for The Resilient Activist’s sign in the parking area.
Register using the form:
Are you a residential interior designer?
Do you want to be part of a select group to help create an educational program that will show you how your business can make a positive impact on the environment and our communities?
The Resilient Activist is developing a Business for Good course for residential interior designers to enhance the healthy home, environmental, and social justice impact of choices they make in client projects.
We invite you to be apart of our Focus Group to provide valuable input for the creation of Business for Good course. With your help, we can learn what you most need to help shift your interior design business toward healthy, sustainable practices.
Our course will connect designers with local resources including artists and craftspeople, as well as holistic, eco-aware, and fair trade products and services.
We will be asking focus group participants to share their successes and failures in incorporating environmentally-focused aspects into their design projects. We are asking for feedback and ideas as we share the tentative curriculum for our course. What are their pain points? What would they love to learn more about to uplift their own businesses?
And we’ll have a special gift for your participation! You’ll receive the PDF “100+ EnviroTips for the Home Checklist” to use over and over again with your clients!
Please register here:
Note: Your registration will only sign you up for the focus group event. If you’d like to join The Resilient Activist’s email list, please sign up here.
This month we’re going on a Climate Journey with Beth Sarver from Breathing Room KC!
- Ever think you’re not doing enough to support a healthy planet but don’t know what the next step might be?
- Ever think you’re doing too much and feel stressed about it but don’t know what you should change?
- Ever feel totally confused about what is too much and what’s too little and what’s too confusing?
Join us for a delightful and insightful morning to reflect on your own actions and to make a personal climate action plan for 2020.
Colonial Church Heritage Room 7039 Mission Rd, Prairie Village
Colonial is located at the corner of 71st & Mission Rd. Use the parking lot directly to the south of the church. It can be accessed from 71st Street or Mission Road. Additionally there are 3 handicapped parking spots directly in front of the church. Please enter through the front door, located on the west side of the church. The Heritage room is upstairs on the main floor.
*The event is for ages 14 and up.
*Bring a light snack to share and your reusable beverage container (tea and water provided)
*There is no cost for this event; donations are welcome.
Register using the form
Join us along with Amy Sell, founder of the Wanderlust Group, and owner of Holistic Health by Amy, as she shares her passion for the out-of-doors! Conversation will include local nature sites she loves, gathering friends to go with you, ways to feel safe outdoors, and how to connect deeply and energetically to the nature around you.
Colonial Church Heritage Room 7039 Mission Rd, Prairie Village
Colonial is located at the corner of 71st & Mission Rd. Use the parking lot directly to the south of the church. It can be accessed from 71st Street or Mission Road. Additionally there are 3 handicapped parking spots directly in front of the church. Please enter through the front door, located on the west side of the church. The Heritage room is upstairs on the main floor.
*The event is for ages 14 and up.
*Bring a light snack to share and your reusable beverage container (tea and water provided)
*There is no cost for this event; donations are welcome.
Please register here:
Join co-leaders Jake Vail and Shirley Braunlich to discuss Angelou Ezeilo’s new book, Engage, Connect, Protect: Empowering Diverse Youth as Environmental Leaders.
Reserve your spot, borrow a copy of the book and join us!
This event has been revised to be offered ONLINE! Register here and you will receive the online link and instructions before the event.
Mark your calendars for the March Climate Conversations!
Join us along with
Brad Elpers with Acme Yoga for
Spring Cleaning for Your Mind:
De-clutter the stories that weigh you down
Keep your body, heart, and mind clear for taking on climate change.
Our Spring Equinox Climate Conversation will focus on meditation to emphasize participants’ intent and thoughts supporting the birth a new story that feeds their own heart.
We’ll plant the “thought seeds” for taking new, healthy, aligned actions related to your earth-steward desires and perspectives.
- The event is for ages 14 and up.
- There is no cost for this event; donations are welcome.
Please register here:
April Climate Conversations
with Naturalist and Author Ken Lassman
and Joy Ellsworth from Clement Waters.
This special program is an all day adventure created to help you reconnect to nature – even if you’re inside!
Register using the form below
The first part of the program will be led by Ken Lassman, author of a four-part blog post series for The Resilient Activist, “Inviting Nature To Your Home.”
Ken will discuss the patterns that have emerged for him for each month of the year, and provide ways that you might use to develop “season-watching” as a way to connect your life and your place to this place. You’ll explore the patterns of life that have continuously unfolded and renewed each year in this area since the last ice age.
In this time of changing weather patterns, it is important to become aware of these cycles so you know what is changing and how. Ken is a 5th generation native of northeast Kansas who has been purposefully observing the cycles of the seasons since the early 1980s. His book, Wild Douglas County, is available for purchase online.
After the lunch break, the program will continue with a virtual nature walk at Clement Waters, the delightful urban oasis near Kansas City’s Swope Park. Joy Ellsworth, co-founder and president of Clement Waters will lead us through recording her nature meander at this embodied nature sanctuary. Her video will be uploaded after the event and be available online.
Make your own recorded nature walk
Participants will learn tips and tricks to recording their own nature walks – even around their homes and neighborhoods. We’ll explore why this is important and how it can enhance your nature connection.
Tentative Schedule:
Meet from 10 am – about 3 pm Meet Online – Zoom link will be provided when you register below.
- 10 – 10:30 – Sami Aaron – introductions/meditation/stretching
- 10:30 – noon – Ken Lassman
- Nature relationships
- Q & A
- Break
- How to create a walking audio or video
- Wild East Lawrence Walk audio
- How to submit files to us to post online
- Q & A
- noon – 1:00 Break – lunch on your own
- 1:00 – whenever – Joy Ellsworth’s Clement Waters meander while recording her walk – we’ll post it online later.
- Q & A
- End no later than 3:00 pm
Registration
A Native Garden Transformation: Fundraiser
Sunday, September 25, 2022 10 am – 2 pm Central Time
Private Home 6844 Edgevale Rd, Kansas City MO 64113
Rain Date: Sunday, Oct. 9th
Tour. Learn. Inspire.
Ticket Options
Ticket purchases are not refundable. If you are not able to attend, please share your ticket with others!
In the event of a rainout on both days, your pre-purchased ticket will be a donation.
Tickets required for Ages 12+
- In Advance – $20.00 ($22.07 with service fees)
- Day of Event – $25.00 ($27.27 with service fees)
- Bronze Level Sponsorship – $100.00 ($105.19 with service fees)
- 2 Tickets
- Listing on the event donations page
- Can’t join us that day? Click “Purchase Tickets Here” and make a donation!
Event Activities
- Tour a Home Garden filled with both mature and new native plants
- Learn from Local Experts
- 10:30 – 11:30 am Courtney Masterson, with Native Lands LLC
- 10:00 – 2:00
- Patti Ragsdale, with Botanical Belonging
- Hilary Noonan, with Mad Hatter Compost Tea
- Kelly Daniels, with Blue River Forest Experience
- Prairie Hollow Productions will be onsite recording portions of the event for a short video to be shared on social media! Prairie Hollow Productions is producing a documentary about the local impact of climate change for broadcast on public TV next spring.
- Be Inspired
- Local resources and vendors – watch this site for the list of vendors
- Local Art
- Silent Auction – watch this site to view and bid on donated items
- Chalk art with Suburban Sketcher, Amy Lyn Sell
All funds raised will support The Resilient Activist: Community support for activists and others concerned about climate change.
Questions: Reach out to Info@TheResilientActivist.org
Sponsors
Media Sponsors
Bronze Sponsors
- Anna Graether
- Jan Wilson
- Anne & Tom Melia
- Susan & Zack Hangauer
Vendors
The Resilient Activist is a public charity recognized as tax-exempt by the IRS under Section 501(c)(3).