TEAM BUILDING
spirituality, cooking and environmental issues plus a few good novels as well,
Design Services in Green Bay, learned about the center from a colleague who kept telling him about this place he called "The Commune.
Rugowski visited the Denmark center. "I was just positively enamored with
" Finally
the peacefulness of the place, and the reflection time,
to hang out with Dominick, one of the llamas they have there … It's just like going back in time. There's this energy – and when you leave the place, there's a lightness in your step.
" Rugowski says. "I got
eventually built the center's website and created a DVD for the center.
Rugowski continued to return and "
Mixing spirituality and business Leaders insist that spirituality
according to the Bridge-Between website. Visitors can spend the night in a refurbished silo. Joe Rugowski, president of Digital
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and business are compatible and complementary. The triple-bottom- line idea of "People, Planet, Profits" has drawn more focus to paying attention to people, Arendt says, and an increased interest in spirituality may be a part of that notion. Raaths says the same kinds of values
that should apply to the business world – treating everyone the same, for instance, whether they're the janitor or one of your top customers – is consistent with the messaging that comes from a retreat session. "It really is how you interface
A CLOSER LOOK
The Bridge-Between Retreat Center (Denmark) www.bridge-between.com
Fox Valley Meditation Center (Appleton) www.meetup.com/Fox-Valley-Meditation
Jesuit Retreat Center (Oshkosh) www.montealverno.org
Monte Alverno (Appleton) www.montealverno.org
St. Norbert Abbey (DePere) www.norbertines.org
with other human beings, how you reach into your own set of values and personal intensions," Raaths says. "Especially us CEO types – we tend to feel that we're able to do everything on our own, whether it's working harder, working smarter. (On retreat) you get a little humility and know there's a bigger thing out there than what you as an individual are able to understand or
change or manipulate." "It all comes back to a sense of purpose," Neufelder says. "I really
believe where people and organizations come together is when individuals feel that they have talent, skills and abilities that they're able to apply to a role that their organization is asking them to do, that their work is important, and it has meaning and purpose. … When those things come together, people just get inspired.
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