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Hope Springs Institute Transformative programs on Sacred Land

https://www.hopespringsinstitute.org/events-1/what-the-season-leaves-2026-09-14-19-00Autumn has always known how to edit...
08/19/2026

https://www.hopespringsinstitute.org/events-1/what-the-season-leaves-2026-09-14-19-00Autumn has always known how to edit. Sprawling summer green stripped to bare branches. The long slant of afternoon light making the world look different than it did just months ago.

This fall, Hope Springs Institute invites you into that same practice of compression with What the Season Leaves, a four-week virtual writing course exploring poetry and flash nonfiction, harvesting big thoughts and feelings from small images. Each week pairs readings of short contemporary works with generative writing exercises and space to share with your cohort.

Facilitated by Lindsay Way, four Monday evenings beginning September 14, 7:00–9:00 PM EDT.

Sliding scale investment: $100 | $175 | $265 — choose what honors both your resources and this work.

Register at hopespringsinstitute.org 🌿
https://www.hopespringsinstitute.org/events-1/what-the-season-leaves-2026-09-14-19-00

Relationships don't maintain themselves. Neither does community.Both need the small, unglamorous, often inconvenient act...
07/24/2026

Relationships don't maintain themselves. Neither does community.

Both need the small, unglamorous, often inconvenient acts of tending — the check-in that takes five minutes but that you keep putting off. The willingness to show up when it doesn't fit neatly into your schedule. The choice to stay in the discomfort of a real conversation rather than retreat into pleasantries and move on.

We live in a culture that talks about community constantly but rarely slows down enough to actually build it. We follow each other. We like each other's posts. We share the same values, the same aesthetics, the same general sense that connection matters. And then we wonder why we still feel so alone.

Real community, the kind that holds you when things fall apart, that challenges you to grow, that shows up with food and presence and honesty when you need it, doesn't happen by accident. It happens because people tend to it. Consistently. Over time. Without always knowing what they're building.

The Hope Springs community gives, answers surveys, gathers, and holds this place in their hearts. That community exists because people have been tending it for thirty years. One relationship at a time. One shared meal, one circle, one honest conversation at a time.

The mandala, the fire circle, and the shared meal are acts of tending. They're how we remember that we belong to each other.

This week, we're asking: Who in your life is asking to be tended? And what would it look like to show up for them, not perfectly, not dramatically, just presently?

We'd love to hear what comes up for you. 🌿

⏳ Last Call: Registration Closes SoonThe Spiral Practice begins Thursday, August 6, at 6:30pm EDT - four weekly sessions...
07/23/2026

⏳ Last Call: Registration Closes Soon

The Spiral Practice begins Thursday, August 6, at 6:30pm EDT - four weekly sessions moving through gratitude, honoring our pain for the world, seeing with new eyes, and going forth, guided by Joanna Macy's Work That Reconnects.

If you've been meaning to sign up, now's the time. This is your last chance to join Executive Director Rosie Santos for this four-week virtual journey before the course begins.

✨ Sliding scale: $100 / $175 / $265

Register before spots close: https://www.hopespringsinstitute.org/events-1/the-spiral-practice-2026-08-06-18-30

What becomes possible when we let ourselves dream beyond survival?Roots & Horizons is a gathering space for q***r folks ...
07/20/2026

What becomes possible when we let ourselves dream beyond survival?

Roots & Horizons is a gathering space for q***r folks to reconnect with the resilience and wisdom of the past to build our boldest futures.

In this workshop, we'll connect with the work of our q***r ancestors, not only those we're biologically connected to, but the chosen kin, cultural trailblazers, and unnamed lives whose courage carved out space for us to exist. Through guided reflection, readings, and creative exercises, participants will be invited to tap into these lineages as a source of inspiration and turn toward the horizon together.

This workshop is open to q***r, trans, and gender expansive people of all backgrounds.

💛 Scholarships are available, no one who needs this space will be turned away.
📅 Saturday, August 22 | 1:00–3:30 PM EDT
💻 Virtual via Zoom

Register at the link below.
👉 https://www.hopespringsinstitute.org/events-1/roots-and-horizons

07/18/2026

There’s a reason humans have always sung, to the land, to each other, to whatever we can’t otherwise name. Make a Joyful Noise, returning to Hope Springs Institute August 28-30, is built on that instinct.

This is a retreat for singers and non-singers alike: chanting, soundings out in nature, morning and evening singing, and time to simply rest into community.

No musical experience is needed,
just curiosity and a willingness to create sound and share joy with others.

Link to learn more in bio. 🕊️

Meet Our Facilitator: Rowe SchnureWe're so glad to have Rowe Schnure facilitating Roots & Horizons: A Q***r Futures Work...
07/18/2026

Meet Our Facilitator: Rowe Schnure

We're so glad to have Rowe Schnure facilitating Roots & Horizons: A Q***r Futures Workshop.

Rowe is a q***r conceptual weaver, educator, and community arts organizer based in Cincinnati, OH, with an interest in interdisciplinary community building and self-discovery through creative process. Since 2018, they've facilitated workshops and inclusive art spaces at local Cincinnati organizations for all ages. They believe everyone can connect through artistic practice.

Join Rowe for this workshop on Saturday, August 22, from 1:00–3:30 PM.

Scholarships are available.
👉 https://www.hopespringsinstitute.org/events-1/roots-and-horizons

With only 35 spots available for Taste of Hope Springs, we wanted to send a quick reminder to register if it's been on y...
07/16/2026

With only 35 spots available for Taste of Hope Springs, we wanted to send a quick reminder to register if it's been on your mind. 🌿

This one-day gathering includes a vegetarian brunch, a facilitated experience, land-based ceremony, and time on the land — no overnight commitment required.

📅 Saturday, July 25 | 11am–4pm
💰 Sliding scale: $45 | $65 | $125

Register here: https://www.hopespringsinstitute.org/events-1/hope-springs-open-house

Roots & Horizons is a gathering space for q***r folks to reconnect with the resilience and wisdom of the past to build o...
07/16/2026

Roots & Horizons is a gathering space for q***r folks to reconnect with the resilience and wisdom of the past to build our boldest futures.

In this workshop, we'll connect with the work of our q***r ancestors — not only those we're biologically connected to, but the chosen kin, cultural trailblazers, and unnamed lives whose courage carved out space for us to exist. Through guided reflection, readings, and creative exercises, participants will be invited to tap into these lineages as a source of inspiration and turn toward the horizon to consider: What becomes possible when we let ourselves dream beyond survival? What bold, joyful, and liberatory futures can we envision and begin to build together?

This workshop is open to q***r, trans, and gender expansive people of all backgrounds.

📅 Saturday, August 22 | 1:00–3:30 PM EDT
💻 Virtual via Zoom
💛 Scholarships now available
Register at the link below — we hope you'll join us.
👉 https://www.hopespringsinstitute.org/events-1/roots-and-horizons

There's a particular kind of stillness that only comes from time outdoors. The kind where your shoulders drop before you...
07/14/2026

There's a particular kind of stillness that only comes from time outdoors. The kind where your shoulders drop before you've noticed they were tense, where your thoughts slow to the pace of the wind moving through trees.

The land has a way of teaching us things our minds alone can't grasp. It asks for nothing, and in that asking-for-nothing, it gives us permission to simply be.

This is the territory we'll explore together in Rewilding Inner Knowing, a virtual workshop with facilitator Amy Tuttle. Through guided reflection and contemplative practice, we'll explore what it means to move beyond conditioned patterns and return to a deeper, more embodied sense of self.

🗓️ Tuesday, August 4th
🕡 6:30 – 8:30 PM ET
💻 Virtual — no travel needed

You don't have to be standing on this land to feel its teaching. You just have to be willing to listen. We hope you'll join us.

https://www.hopespringsinstitute.org/copy-of-retreats-programs

We're delighted to introduce Amy Tuttle, the facilitator guiding our upcoming workshop, Rewilding Inner Knowing.Amy hold...
07/10/2026

We're delighted to introduce Amy Tuttle, the facilitator guiding our upcoming workshop, Rewilding Inner Knowing.

Amy holds an MA in Arts in Transformation from Eastern University and has spent 15 years serving communities around the globe as a facilitator, trainer, and community-based artist. Her work has ranged widely - from guiding public art installations, to developing and leading Arts-Based First Response for disaster-relief settings, to training arts practitioners internationally. She has also studied with the School of Lost Borders as a Vision Fast Guide and with Animas Valley Institute as a Council Guide.

Currently, she is a member of the National Organization of Arts in Health (NOAH), faculty for the Global Arts in Medicine Institute, and a practitioner with the Cincinnati Arts Association's Arts in Healing program.

In her facilitation, Amy focuses on:
→ Guiding groups and individuals through major thresholds of change
→ Utilizing poetry and creativity for collective meaning-making
→ Turning toward indigenous and land-based modalities for transformative cultural change

We're honored to have her bring this depth of experience to our community. Join us for Rewilding Inner Knowing.

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