After school programs for youth at Minneapolis Public Schools locations
Promoting families healthy growth and development through education, support and community building.
Minneapolis Kids provides year-round, fee-based, school-age childcare for families with youth enrolled in High Five/Minneapolis Kids Jr through 5th grade during the school year (entering grades K-7 during the summer).
Classes for Summer Youth Programs will be visible and open for registration February 23 at 5pm.
Adult Enrichment Academics
Adult Enrichment Health, Wellness & Safety
Adult Enrichment Writing
Adult Enrichment Yoga & Mind-Body Practices
Adult Aquatics
See the best of our Minneapolis outdoor athletic facilities as we offer summer sports camps for youth. Young athletes will get a taste of a high school field experience. Don’t miss it as it comes through your neighborhood.
Spend quality time with your child learning and playing together. Parent discussion will examine topics through the lens of fatherhood. Explore the joys and challenges of being a dad.
An opportunity to provide a culturally and linguistically specific ECFE experience to families from Afghanistan.
An opportunity to provide a culturally and linguistically specific ECFE experience to families from India.
Here's your chance to spend some uninterrupted time together participating in toddler-friendly activities that support growth and development.
We invite you to step into a collaborative space and join a transformative movement that honors water knowledge from diverse cultures and sciences. We will navigate the confluence of time-honored wisdom and innovative approaches, deepening our collective understanding, reverence for and stewardship of water across its many forms and functions. We will reconnect with our own relationship to water and water's essential role in sustaining life.
Do you want to know more about the water you drink and work with on the land?
Are you concerned about the quality of your water?
Are you interested in increasing your personal health and hydration?
Would you like to learn about the subtle energies and wisdom of water?
Would you like to build a healthier relationship with water?
Lindsay Rebhan and Paula Westmoreland will facilitate this weekend immersion into the body and spirit of water. During the weekend we will:
Water stories, water poems, water blessings, water play, and reflection time will be integrated into the experience. Saturday evening is a 'Celebration of Water', a time for participants to gather, process and engage with music and story facilitated by Ben Weaver. Ben is a father, poet, songwriter, and community builder. His music also provides the soundtrack for the weekend immersion.
Event Details:
The Place: The Acreage in Osceola is a magnificent 360-acre expanse of woodland and prairie habitat overlooking the St. Croix River in western Wisconsin - a magical land with natural springs, wetlands, creeks and ponds. Our meeting place is The Stables, a renovated space that was the home of Horst Rechelbacher and Kiran Stordalen, founders of Aveda and Intelligent Nutrients.
The Food: You will be nourished with food from local regenerative farms prepared by a personal chef. There will be an open kitchen with snacks and warm and cold beverages. A light breakfast, lunch and dinner will be served on Saturday and a full breakfast on Sunday.
Pricing: Pricing includes meals, snacks, drinks, hosting at the Acreage, day and a half guided workshop, a Water Workbook, printed materials, and the Saturday evening water celebration.
Onsite lodging and childcare are optional and available!
Lodging: Overnight stay is not required but can ease and enhance your experience. The Acreage has a limited number of luxurious lodging options including single rooms, shared rooms, and suites.
Children: Activities, crafts, nature play, and indoor play spaces adjacent to our meeting rooms are provided to support families and parents to fully participate. Certified babysitters will be leading the activities.
You will receive email instructions and links to lodging and childcare options once registered. You may contact lindsay@ecologicaldesign.land with any questions.
Agenda:
Practical Applications: Throughout the weekend, you'll discover practical techniques to build a deeper personal relationship with water and receive a Water Workbook to continue your journey.
General Flow:
Saturday
Sunday
Organizations: Co-hosted by Land Song and Ecological Design. Ecological Design is a women-owned land planning company with 25+ years experience designing and implementing regenerative land systems. Our work encompasses broadacre farms, community-based farms, and Tribal food sovereignty projects and spans the entire lifecycle including land planning, site assessment, design, implementation, and land management. We embody learnings that include holistic management, traditional ecological knowledge, permaculture design, and regenerative agriculture.
Land Song is a nonprofit collaborative committed to cultivating deeper relationships with land. We host retreats, workshops and land projects.
Refund Policy:
Full refund (-$50 admin fee) before September 4.
50% refund (-$50 admin fee) September 4-19.
No refund after September 19 unless we can fill your spot. We will make every effort to do so.
If event is sold out, please enroll on the waitlist. We will notify you if a ticket becomes available.
Paula Westmoreland and Lindsay Rebhan will be guides for this water immersion. They have been restoring watersheds for over two decades, are water protectors, water explorers and will share their own personal water healing stories and techniques.
Lindsay Rebhan is mother of two and co-owner of Ecological Design. For twenty years she has been working with Paula and is a land coach specializing in agroecology, land use, farm design and land management. Lindsay works with farmers, land owners, food nonprofits and organizations to increase the natural wealth and resilience of land. She is also a teacher and speaker on ecosystem regeneration.
Paula Westmoreland is an agroecologist, designer, teacher and author. She has been working for over two decades in design and land healing in the Upper Midwest. Paula is passionate about connecting people into deeper relationships with the natural world. She founded Ecological Design in 2000 and co-founded the Permaculture Research Institute in 2003 which became Land Song in 2022.
Paula Westmoreland , Lindsay Rebhan
