NExT Foundation

Presenting Ami Polite's Day Retreat, "Discovering Dormancy: A micro retreat in understanding and incorporating Nature's cycle of Rest and Renewal. So just a brief overview : an interactive presentation of the cycle of dormancy in plants, exploring how the stages of dormancy can be used to help us come to a place of rest and renewal. Journaling and Arts will be available for mediums of expression as well as time for meditation." Expressive Arts Therapist, Betsy Funk will join in supporting the expressive arts component of this retreat.

Ami Polite is a gardener of plants and people. She is the owner of Polite Gardens, a company that offers private gardening services, coaching, writing, art installations and nature psychoeducation.

Self taught from volunteering at botanical gardens various commercial and residential sites. She believes that gardening should be natural, not stressful. Her self-published memoir, "Garden My Hair" is a growing mix of plants, art, hair and music. Her art installations have appeared at Kiewit, Luminarium, CULXR House and Afrocon. She's been a nature lover all her life, an avid gardener for over 15 years and professional gardener for over 10 years.

Saturday, January 24th, 11am-1:30pm

Welcoming all with sliding fee structure...

$25 standard fee

$35 Fee supporting another participant's costs (pay it forward)

$15 donation fee

" People interacting with plants should be a regular and natural occurrence. The simplest of interactions is observing and imitating."