Workshops: Session 1B — Welcome to the New Era of the Purpose-Driven Business: Why It Matters and What You Can Do

Sunrise

Trail Run

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Yoga Along the River Bank

Breakfast

Land Acknowledgement and Smudge

Case Study Session: John MacInnes, Founder of Earthware Reusables

Earthware offers a return-for-reuse zero waste takeout container program in Calgary, Airdrie, Canmore and Banff. Their mission is to tackle the millions of single-use container waste that ends up in our province's landfills, and their partnership with the Alberta Bottle Depot Association marks a global first in reusable systems. During this session, John will receive feedback from a panel of experts and the audience. A powerful way for the entire group to gain a wealth of practical ideas about how to manage the challenges of running a socially responsible enterprise

Nature Break

Welcoming by Juanita Marois, CEO of Métis Crossing

Métis Crossing is Alberta's first major Métis cultural interpretive destination

Lunch

Free Time to Explore the Land OR Optional: Wildlife Tour or Through the Eye of the Hunter Experience

Interactive, educational experiences to learn more about Métis culture. Click to read details and price for each of these unique experiences.

Workshops: Session 1A — Being in Flow: Creating a Supportive Container for your Vision (and Yourself) to Flourish

There are moments when you are in flow. When you are present and can intuit the moving currents and what is called for. These moments are the heart of creating something new and meaningful. But they need space and presence. The new normal is too often an exhausted, frazzled, distracted, and isolated state. When our bodies, hearts & minds are depleted we cannot be of service to the world to the extent we want to be. This can be frustrating and disappointing. Mindfulness - when integrated into our daily life - creates more self-compassion and kindness. More humanness and connection. It helps you access that creative spacious ground. From there you can take the next step. This workshop explores how mindfulness helps you create a supportive environment for more presence and flow. Only through practising kindness & compassion and tending to your own heart can you truly be of service to others.

Marketplace of Ideas

Sign up to take the stage for 60 seconds to share about your work in the world!

Dinner

Fireside True Confessions Session: Morẹ́nikẹ́ Ẹniọlá Ọláòṣebìkan

Morẹ́nikẹ́ will share her journey as the founder of Kemet Group, a startup that aims to boost drug-manufacturing capacity in Africa. True Confessions offers a personal and intimate look at key learning moments around the challenges and successes of building businesses focused on a triple bottom line. Interspersed through the talk are opportunities to connect with fellow entrepreneurs and to process how what you’ve heard applies to your own venture.

Sunset (Moon Phase: First Quarter)

Bonfire, Riverside Concert and Dance

Binoculars will be available on the patio to stargaze at night

Sunrise

Meditation Session

Join us for a morning meditation. Using the land and our bodies to ground and access our inner strength and stability for the day ahead.

Trail Run

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Breakfast

Session Starter

Workshops: Session 2A — Agile Strategy for the Social Venture

How do you translate ideas into impact? How do you hold to your values, while competition and opportunities try to push you off course? And how do you decide what's most important now—compared to what you thought was important during your last planning retreat? Today, effective strategy integrates culture and brand, embraces the change that's all around us, and is captured in a living document that empowers leaders through change, growth, and organizational development. In this session Mike Rowlands will share insights into Junxion's Turning Point™ approach, which blends Agile methodologies, Appreciative Inquiry, stakeholder engagement and systems thinking in an integrated model that's been implemented by many SVI alumni in their ventures—and a long list of visionary, social purpose organizations.

Workshops: Session 2B — Understanding what is out there in the Alberta Social Venture Ecosystem

We hear that peer support and mentorship are often a pivotal resource for social ventures, and that word of mouth is the best way to find meaningful support. We are leveraging both concepts as we develop Namada, an online resource navigation for social entrepreneurs in Alberta.So much more than just a map, learn how Namada works, benefiting both social ventures, capacity builders and resource providers, and the ecosystem more broadly. Explore other work being done to help coordinate this space, what role you can play, and get a chance to try Namada for yourself.

Case Study: Dr. Kevin wâsakâyâsiw Lewis, Founder of kâniyâsihk Culture Camp

Dr. Kevin wâsakâyâsiw Lewis is a nêhiyaw (Plains Cree) instructor, researcher, write and founder of kâniyâsihk Culture Camp, a year round eco-tourism company that promotes First Nations experiences. Their social venture funds Canada's only Cree Land Based Immersion School, kâ-nîyâsihk mîhkiwâpa Centre of Excellence.

Checkout of your room

Please be sure to checkout by or before noon

Lunch

Peer Coaching Circles and Closing Celebration

Depart ☹️