[NOTE: Moe offered a highly insightful program on Nov. 15. Thank you, Moe. If you missed it or if you would like to hear parts over again, check out our audio album pages. To download excerpts, Click Here. Or, to hear the individual tracks as a continuous album, Click Here.]

Keynote for the next Citizens4Community quarterly session will be Moe Carrick, founder of the Bend-based, B corp consulting firm Moementum, Inc. A Certified Daring Way™ facilitator, Moe is an outstanding organizational coach and speaker and the recipient of the Bend Chamber's "Woman of the Year" award last year. She has engaged audiences across sectors, including at TEDx events, universities, Microsoft, Starbuck’s and Nike.

During this custom-created, dynamic session, "The Paradox of Connection," you’ll gain ideas for fostering meaningful connections in a“highly-connected” world that paradoxically also encourages division and community disengagement.

You’ll learn why “showing up” (even when it’s hard) is key; and you’ll examine what "community" looks like through a new lens of courage, vulnerability, and connection.

According to census figures, about 40 percent of Sisters households have people in them who are age 60 or older. So, it's not surprising that when local octogenarian Joan Power expressed her concern recently about the lack of coordinated services for seniors in Sisters, her words resonated. Power suggested a meeting to identify existing and needed resources for older residents. From that initial work the Senior Alliance of Sisters has emerged.

Join Citizens4Community on April 20 as our next, free quarterly event focuses on: "What does Civility mean to you, to Sisters Country, and to the vitality of our community?"

The informative event will begin at 5:15 p.m. at the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire Station Community Hall, 301 S. Elm St., in Sisters.

This Spring Quarter session dovetails with a discussion begun in January during C4C's Winter Quarter event. Many participants said they wanted to hear more strategies for keeping meetings, public events or other gatherings from devolving into unproductive territory when disruptive behavior, disagreements or other challenges arise.

C4C's next quarterly community-wide event—Soaring Toward Common Ground—is set for Wednesday, Jan. 25. The evening will explore the concept of what it means to "Be Agreeable" (even when you disagree)—one of the 9 basic principles of the Sisters Country Civility Project and Speak Your Peace.