Program

Please join us, for our final program of the 2022 - 2023 program year!  This year, we're adding a feature in which we hope everyone will participate. We will be sharing our "Photos of the Year" with one another, in a slideshow presentation format. We'd like you to select your favorite photo from the past year (or two). You don't need to have taken the photo, but if you use someone else's work, please be sure to credit the photographer. The photo can be of any family-friendly subject: historic, natural, portrait, or scenic -- whatever you'd like to share.

For this program, Lake Fellowship welcomes longtime member and friend Clay Atkinson. 

From Clay:

Look from different perspectives, open your mind, and use the power of the experiential. We'll consider various creative tools and processes to increase the quantity and quality of possibilities to solve problems and enhance your life. We'll also talk about the breadbox.

Mother and daughter team Sharon and Rachel Dana will provide historical background and moderate discussion of the controversy over land acknowledgement statements and the complexities of backing up the words with actions. They will discuss generational differences in attitudes and current efforts toward truth-telling, reconciliation and reparations.

Lake Fellowship welcomes Dr. Amy Sullivan, Macalester College history professor and author of Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State (2021). She will share insights not only about the history of the opioid epidemic, but also how it collided with Minnesota’s pioneering history in drug and alcohol treatment.

Lake Fellowship welcomes Karen Wills, Executive Director at Minnesota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Alliance (MUUSJA). The title of Karen's program is Towards Justice, With Joy: Social Action Organizing as a Neuroscientist.

Lake Fellowship alum Leah Tift returns for another program based on her experiences as a student at Augsburg University. In this program, drawing from readings by Paulo Friere, Leah will contrast the predominant Banking model of teaching with Dialogical teaching as a method of resistance to social oppression and as a more effective tool for critical thinking. Join us for this interactive conversation and peek inside the university classroom today.

Lake Fellowship welcomes Dr. Kate Schaefers to present a program titled: Learning for Life: Why a Growth Mindset is So Important as We Age. Kate will be joining us via Zoom.

An advantage of being in the later stages of your life/career: You no longer need to prove yourself. It’s an ideal time to cultivate a “growth mindset”: To stretch yourself, try new things, and even fail. It can be liberating to let go of the need to succeed and embrace the pure joy of learning.

Lóre Stevens returns to Lake Fellowship to talk about her personal "atheistic mystic cosmology," on which she wrote her Harvard Divinity School thesis.  By telling the story of how she discovered her spirituality while traveling the country in an RV and later found a community within Unitarian Universalism, Lóre will help us explore our distinct world views and interconnectedness more deeply.

Lake Fellowship welcomes Sondra Samuels, a Founding Leader and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Northside Achievement Zone to speak to us. 

Choosing to live a life of compassion,