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POPUP COMMUNITY RETREAT AGREEMENTS

Thriving communities typically share common agreements about how to navigate individual needs with community needs. We've found these agreements to be helpful when bringing together people who don't know each other well. When you RSVP, you'll be asked to participate with these agreements in mind. We simply ask that everyone participating does their best to support this popup community retreat with these agreements. 

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About The Tulsa Labor Day Experience

During this four-day gathering, we will host discussions, special guest workshops, and facilitated group experiences. We'll encourage your own trek around Tulsa to delve into the themes of autonomy and interdependence related to “work" (however one chooses to define that), "leisure" (that, too), and "community" (any type!) You will be ushered into experiences that invite a nuanced understanding of how the combination of individuality and interconnectedness creates healthy laboring, relaxation, and community-building. 

One of our goals is to evoke "Ahas!" - moments of clarity that will inspire your future endeavors at work, play, home, and in your community. You can also anticipate making lasting connections with people of many vocations, ages, races, genders, interests, locations, and other aspects which can shape our views.

Here's a glimpse of the weekend:

  1. Immersive Experiences (both guided and self-guided): Local parks, museums, educational centers, and various public outlets are open for us to explore community histories and cycles of innovation, creativity, triumphs over oppression, ongoing tribulations, and reckoning - including a retrospective, current, and futuristic view of Black Wall Street/ The Greenwood District. // You will be near (and invited to walk to) the sacred Creek Nation Council Oak Tree, where members of the Locapoga clan of the Muscogee (Creek) tribe buried the embers kept afire throughout their forced migration from Alabama. This clan called the area Tallasi (Old Town); the original form of what is now called Tulsa. // We'll suggest and lightly support several optional, participatory experiences to explore music, art, folk inspirations, The Gathering Place, and more. Foodies and families will love Tulsa's dining options from award-winning chefs! These are just some examples of the activities you'll be invited to experience. 
  2. Evening Mixers, a Dance Party, and a closing-day Winkie Toast Brunch: Enough said! We plan to foster lasting connections through loosely structured social hours, nourishment, and movement-based activities, including a 'first-ever performed play Vonda's been dreaming about since shortly after she left Tulsa in 1987. The play culminates in a dance party and migrates to a different location during the performance. Our aim is to create an inviting atmosphere for all. This event is designed for singles, couples, kids of all ages, and families. 
  3. Self-reflective Exercises, Workshops by special guests, and Collaboration Jazz: Guided practices, poetry, and visioning exercises will draw out individual and community reflections, contemplation, and learning. With Collaboration Jazz, 10th Dot’s signature convening model, attendees will listen and share with curiosity - engaging in meaningful conversations that explore how modern-day laboring (trade, manufacturing, engineering, tech, service, healthcare, remote/gig workers, education, and more) influences community health. These experiences will prompt us to reflect and broaden our understanding of how our work and leisure influence communities and vice-versa. 
  4. Music and Art Activities: Vonda encourages participants to take outings for live performances and art events. In addition to being pleasurable, these will serve as entry points into deeper cultural conversations.  Together, we will engage in playful experimentation to challenge our own biases and explore others' perspectives. 
  5. Consent-based, flexible participation: We are designing the weekend to reflect a balance of individual choice and community participation. A few key convenings will anticipate 30 or so participants in attendance. All activities are designed as opt-in so that everyone (both local and traveling participants) can follow their interests and needs as the weekend unfolds. There will also be suggested leisure time to stroll through a park, hike through Turkey Mountain, meditate, and take a movement class. 

Most of the activities will take place Riverside and 18th, on the outskirts of downtown Tulsa. Details regarding the address and entrance to the building will be sent to registrants. 

Out-of-town guests, you'll want to choose a hotel or Airbnb near downtown Tulsa or the southern edge of it.

Uber and Lyft are easy to navigate. Or, if you prefer to stay within walking distance, contact [email protected], and we'll be sure to help you find a great location. 

If the BRUT Hotel receives its permit in time, we'll have half-off rates for all rooms. We'll update here after we learn more on Aug 18th.

We have designed this multi-day community popup retreat so that anyone who registers may arrive for one activity or all the activities we have planned. 

We just ask that if you are coming to an activity, do your very best to arrive at the start. Most activities are lightly facilitated. If you arrive and things are clearly getting focused, we'll have someone to help you join the activities. 

Attending the Friday Social may help you orient to the weekend, though it is not a prerequisite for participating Saturday, Sunday, or Monday.

Vonda will host several activities without a cost to participants, including morning movement and meditations, workshops from special guests, Collaboration Jazz, all facilitated group activities, and the Opening and Closing Socials.

Light snacks and non-alcoholic beverages will be available during hosted events. 

Meals and entertainment outside of Vonda's hosted activities are not included. We'll provide a curated list of places to experience, including a range of $ to $$$ restaurants for your adventures around the city. 

Our aim is to create an inviting atmosphere for all. This event is designed for singles, couples, kids of all ages, and families. 

Vonda is inviting friends from dozens of different phases of life, including people she has not yet met from within the Tulsa Remote community. She's looking forward to seeing family, friends, new acquaintances, and people she hasn't met yet to be a part of this popup community retreat. 

Event Details

Activities start at 4:00pm on September 1st and end at 12:00pm on September 4th, 2023

Arrive: Thursday, August 31st or Friday, September 1st

Depart: Monday, September 4th, or Tuesday, September 5th 

Transportation:

The Tulsa International Airport is about 15 minutes from where we will be convening. 

Tulsa can be hot and humid in September, so you may want to rent a car if you plan to venture out on your own. Uber and Lyft are also easy to book.  

Accommodation options: 

Folks from out of town have options. If you are thinking of traveling to be here, please be in contact soon. [email protected]

 

Our labor and leisure can be like a forest, growing, thriving, and set up to last.

In this talk, Vikas and Priya Narula, will discuss the incredible parallels between forests and communities and how to know if yours is thriving or not (beyond just financials).

Combining technology, real-time experiential exercises with cutting-edge research in the field of leadership, team development, and forest ecosystems, Vikas and Priya take their audiences on a journey into the forest of the workplace and beyond.

Leave this session feeling empowered, renewed, and illuminated.  Come away with clear, actionable steps to make your life, work, and community richer and more vibrant.

Grow the forest – in your life, work, and community.

 Bios

Vikas and Priya Narula are co-founders of Neighborhood Forest and Keyhubs.

Keyhubs is a software and services firm specializing in the power and wisdom of human networks, heightening awareness of self and others, and fostering connection.  Since 2009, Keyhubs has worked with many Fortune 500 companies, smaller non-profits, and everything in-between. Their work has been featured in Pollen, Forbes, and Fast Company.

Neighborhood Forest is a non-profit social venture dedicated to giving free trees to school children every Earth Day.  Since 2010, Neighborhood Forest has given away over 130,000 trees to school children in 48 states and 5 provinces across North America.  Their goal is to reach every child in North America and, eventually, the world.

These ventures interweave and connect in beautiful and unexpected ways, and Priya and Vikas love to share their story of this intersection and how it relates to our lives, work, and the cultivation of thriving cultures.

They live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with their two boys, Nayan and Ishaan, and their dog, Wolfee.

      

 

 

 

 

Communities thrive when we decide to relate effectively with one another. Check out the tools covered in this We Can Relate online training; produced by Vonda with 10th Dot.

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