Dates: Spring Dates TBD
Time: 7pm – 9 pm ET
Event Program Fee: $360
In the give-away spirit of the bison, all proceeds of this program will support the Rowe Center and the Native American Rights Fund.
Bison Community – Bison Democracy with Brandon Peele
Politics and politicians are a regular punching bag for our collective frustrations about the state of our communities, the nation, and the world. For better or for worse, election seasons amplify our longings and conversations about a better day and a better system or a system that somehow delivers on the promise of democracy.
No matter the kind or scale of improvements and liberations that have been made domestically and internationally, there is still a sense that there is a rot in the United States body politic that isn’t just in Washington or your state capital. There is a sense that democracy itself might perish without what Brandon Peele calls “a peaceful, moral, and spiritual revolution”, no matter the candidate du jour.
Brandon Peele writes: ” To become a full functioning democracy and realize unity, we need the third pillar – a civic faith and culture, one that produces the experience of care, purpose, safety, and belonging. Without this, our faithless political-economy will continue to destroy all we hold dear. To activate our culture, we must summon a larger story, a more ancient truth, unifying symbol, and clear path forward.
“Unfortunately, our national bird, the bald eagle, is a bad match for our ideals (‘All Created Equal’, ‘Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness’, and ‘e pluribus unum’). The eagle is a raptor, a solitary hunter, who swoops down from its protected nest to steal, exploit, and scavenge. It then retreats to it’s ‘house on the hill’ to feast with its kin and avoid any responsibility for its actions below. Like the distribution of wealth and power in our nation, it is also white on top and brown on bottom.”
While the eagle itself is blameless and innocent in this and is vital to the ecology where they live there is another animal that once lived on this continent from coast to coast (and still lives in many pockets and preserves) that embodies all the things we say we want in our communities and in our politics – bison. In this remarkable six week course, Brandon Peele will introduce us to the teachings that the bison have for us.
Bison herds draw on something deep in us and the connection to place that so many of us long for. They enchant us with the rolling power of wild nature. There is even a bill passed in Congress in 2016, that established the Bison as our National Mammal.
This six-week practical and interactive and dialogue-based course will introduce you to the ideas and inspirations that guide us to practice bisoning locally and a culture that can move Turtle Islanders in the direction of the lifegiving ways of our national mammal.
The course will follow the journey of Brandon’s new book “Bison Medicine“.
About Your Guide: Brandon Peele
Brandon Peele is a Midwesterner, best-selling author, a Purpose Advisor Unity Lab, and an expert in purpose, leadership, and culture change. He’s trusted as a keynote speaker, consultant and program leader by organizations such as Google, Harvard Business School, Johnson & Johnson, Stanford University, JDRF, Morgan Stanley, U.S. Marine Corps, YPO, University of California – Berkeley, Vistage, Forum for Workplace Inclusion, LinkedIn, the U.S. Navy, Slalom Consulting, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the University of Minnesota.
He is the author of Purpose Work Nation (2022), The Purpose Field Guide (2019), and Planet on Purpose (2018), and co-author of Purpose Rising (2017) and The Purpose Blueprint (2015). His work has been featured by news organizations such as USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, the US Business Journal, and Forbes.
Brandon holds an MBA in Leadership from Columbia Business School, is an Imperative Certified Purpose Leader (TM), a Citizen University Fellow, a Top 50 Purpose ESG Leader, and serves on the Council of the Global Purpose Leaders.
Economic Contribution
In the give-away spirit of the bison, all proceeds of this program will support the Rowe Center and the Native American Rights Fund.