Events

Join us for a rediscovery of the matriarchs who shape our world and lives – and reclaim your own role as matriarch!

Every family has its legends. Its heroes. Its wisdom-keepers. While history often spotlights the patriarchs, the heartbeat of our lineages is often kept by our matriarchs – the women who wove communities together, who preserved traditions, who led with both strength and tenderness.

You are part of this unbroken chain.

Join us for an extraordinary morning of remembrance and awakening as we honor the matriarchs who shaped our world -- and take our rightful place within this powerful lineage.

In the sacred setting of the Sanctuary, surrounded by sisters in spirit, you'll:
• Uncover the hidden stories of history's most remarkable matriarchs
• Honor your own family's wise women through storytelling and sacred ritual
• Connect deeply with other women who hear the call of matriarchal wisdom
• Claim your place in this ancient and evolving tradition
•Leave transformed, carrying both ancient wisdom and a renewed sense of purpose

The intimate gathering begins at 9:00 AM on Saturday, March 8th, as the Sanctuary welcomes 15 women for this transformative experience. We’ve purposely kept the gathering small, so everyone’s voice has a chance to be heard. Over warming cups of handcrafted tea, we'll create a space where stories flow freely and wisdom passes from generation to generation.

Bring a photo or meaningful object connected to a matriarch in your life – someone who showed you what it means to lead with love, strength, and grace. Together, we'll weave these stories into the larger tapestry of feminine wisdom that stretches across time.

This gathering calls to women who
• Feel the whisper of ancient wisdom in their souls
• Are ready to step into their power as community pillars
• Are seeking to honor the matriarchs who came before
• Know they carry a torch meant to light the way for others

Whether you're a mother by birth, by choice, or by the way you nurture your community, your place in this circle awaits. The legacy of the matriarchs lives in you – it's time to let it shine.

Every participant will receive a specially chosen gift to commemorate their place in this eternal chain of feminine wisdom and power.

And as a special way of honoring the women who shape our lives, when you attend with a woman you consider to be matriarch, that person’s ticket will be half price. Come with your mom, your grandmom, your sister, your mentor, your friend.



The circle is calling. Will you answer?

Join us for an educational session for students and parents.

• Enhance Your Financial Skills
• Get Started on A Winning Resume & LinkedIn Profile
• Prepare for Future Success

Want a head start on a future with financial success and a career you love? We're here to help! This interactive workshop is designed for high school, college, vocational, and trade school students and their parents.

Join us for a fun and informational event where three local experts will lead you in the basics of financial and career literacy.

You'll leave with practical tips, action steps, resources, and a clearer path forward to the future you want!

What You'll Learn

• Credit Education & Mortgage Prep: Understand and boost your credit score. Get started on the road to successful home ownership.
• Savings & Budgeting Basics: Learn how to make and stick to a budget. Start saving for a secure financial future.
• Resume & LinkedIn Guidance: Craft a winning resume that lands you internship & job opportunities. Establish your professional presence on LinkedIn.

Key Takeaways

• What's a credit score? Why does it matter? How can you make yours better?
• It's never too early to set yourself up for successful home ownership -- learn how to get started.
• Discover the basics of budgeting, saving, and investing -- set the right foundation for a life with greater financial freedom.
• How to create a resume that sets you apart from the AI-generated ones hiring managers ignore.
• Get started on LinkedIn as a tool to guide your internship and job seeking as your career advances.

Presented by:

Nicole Pompa, Financial Advisor, Pompa Financial Services

Tiffany McDaniel, Residential Mortgage Manager, First Northern Bank & Trust Co.

Marissa Polselli, Writer, Speaker, Educator, Wordtree, LLC

Join us for an experience that combines artistic discovery, meditation, and celebration of the individual through the life and works of Frida Kahlo!

Step into a world where pain transforms into beauty, and conformity bows to authenticity. Through the fearless legacy of Frida Kahlo, discover how one woman's refusal to be contained sparked a revolution in art and self-expression that still blazes today.

In a society that demanded silence, Kahlo spoke in explosions of color. She turned her bed into a studio, her pain into paintings, and her defiance into a declaration: "I am my own muse."

This immersive workshop invites you to walk through the doors she broke open.

Through intimate exploration of Kahlo's most powerful works, we'll trace her evolution from a woman bound by circumstance to an artist who refused to let anyone else define her story. Behind each brushstroke lies a truth: that our deepest wounds and greatest triumphs can become our most profound expressions of self.

This is more than an art history lesson. Through guided meditation and reflective writing, you'll:

• Uncover the meaning behind Kahlo's most provocative works and what they reveal about embracing your full story
• Learn how she transformed personal tragedy into artistic triumph, and how you can channel your own experiences into creative power
• Explore how Kahlo's radical self-acceptance can inspire your own journey of authentic expression
• Discover why her message of unapologetic individuality resonates even more powerfully in today's world

You'll leave with not just a deeper understanding of this remarkable artist, but with your own renewed sense of creative courage. Each participant receives a carefully chosen keepsake that honors Kahlo's spirit of bold self-expression – and reminds you of your own.

This transformative workshop launches our "Women in..." series, celebrating those who dared to live life on their own terms.

Join us in exploring how one woman's courage to remain unframed can inspire us all to paint outside the lines of expectation.

* NOW ONLINE AT A NEW DATE *

How do you feel when you sit down to write copy for your website, or an email, or lead magnet?

As a heart-centered business owner, getting your message out to your ideal clients is a must – and that means enlisting words. And not just any words.

They’ve got to engage. They’ve got to inform. They’ve got to inspire. And they have to convert casual interest into sales.

But most of all, they have to be true. True to you and to your purpose in this world.

In Friends with Words for Heart-Centered Business Owners, you'll learn why and how to shift from using words as tools just when you need them to developing an ongoing relationship with words that will enhance your joy, ease, and impact in working with them.

How you work with words matters

A series of one and done interactions… or an abiding and trusted collaboration.



Which one feels better to you? More expansive? More hopeful? More imbued with the kind of energy you want to pulse through your work and give life to your messaging and branding?

Which one will produce results and impact on the scale you’re looking for?

As a heart-centered business owner, words fuel your mission. You use them to develop your “elevator speech” so you can quickly share what’s most important to you. You use them to connect with your people through emails and newsletters. And you use them to write content for your website, blogs, online profiles like LinkedIn, brochures and one-sheets, and social media.

What would change if, instead of just using them, you befriended them?

*In Friends with Words for Heart-Centered Business Owners, you’ll learn:

• Why words work better when they are called forth from the standpoint of relationship.
• How to reframe your approach to words from a utilitarian exchange to a friendship.
• What this shift can do to amplify your joy and ease in working with words — and your ability to share your message with power and authenticity.

This is a hands-on workshop, so please bring a piece of writing for your business that you want to work on. It can be a section on your website, a newsletter, a lead magnet, or some other type of content.

True connection with the people you are called to serve starts with the words that shape your message. If you’re ready to trade tools for partners, you’re invited to leave the transactional model behind and make Friends with Words.