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Co-Dependents Anonymous (CoDA) is a fellowship of people whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships. The only requirement for attending our meetings is a desire for healthy and loving relationships – with others, and with ourselves. 

Not sure if you might be co-dependent? Some patterns are: thinking we can take care of ourselves without any help; difficulty making decisions, or second-guessing the decisions we made; believing we are unworthy; trouble setting boundaries – yet feeling resentful when others overstep those unstated boundaries; fear expressing our own opinions; offering advice or help without being asked; losing rest or sleep worrying or obsessing about others and their problems; harshly judging ourselves and others… The list of patterns goes on.

We invite you to explore LIVING life rather than merely getting through life. There is hope for a new day with CoDA! It is suggested that newcomers try six basic meetings before deciding if CoDA is right for them. We meet Wednesdays from 1-2pm at the Lingonberry, enter at 218 W Water Street or from the rear parking lot; meetings are held downstairs. All attendees are always anonymous. Who attends and what is said stays absolutely confidential.

Democratic
presidential hopeful John Delaney will host a campaign event at 2 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 22, in the Center for Faith and Life Recital Hall on the Luther
College campus. While Delaney’s primary focus of this stop is talking with students,
the event is open to the public. Tickets are not required.  

            The event is part of Delaney’s
40-stop tour of Iowa ahead of the first-in-the-nation caucuses. Delaney is
calling it his “Send A Message Tour” that’s
focused on small, rural towns. He also wants Iowans to know he’s spent the most
time in the state, touring all 99 counties in 2018. The tour will highlight
Delaney’s plan to create economic opportunities for people in small towns.

            A dinner will follow at 5 p.m. at
Old Armory BBQ in Decorah. The meal is also free of charge and open to the
public.

Delaney is an entrepreneur and was
a US Representative for Maryland from 2013 to 2019. He was the first Democrat
to announce his run for the presidency in 2020. Delaney supports universal
health coverage and equality-related legislation.

The Iowa Democratic caucus will be
held on Feb. 3, 2020. Luther is hosting two caucus events that night, one in
the CFL Main Hall and another in the North Gymnasium in Regents Center. The
meetings begin promptly at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m.

Luther College is home to
more than 1,900 undergraduates who explore big questions and take action to
benefit people, communities and society. Our 60 academic programs,
experiential approach to learning and welcoming community inspire students to learn
actively, live purposefully and lead courageously for a lifetime of impact.
Learn more at luther.edu. 

Join Andrew for his Town Hall in Winneshiek County at Impact Coffee.

https://www.mobilize.us/yang2020/event/202687/

How do animals survive and thrive in all kinds of weather?  In this three-week program we’ll explore animal adaptations through stories, games, art, and hands-on activities.     

Children in 1st – 4th grades. Pre-registration required at:

Curious Kids: Adaptation

It’s cold out! Nothing’s growing! That means your the farmers at Humble Hands Harvest are in dreaming-and-scheming land, and we want to dream with YOU!

Come on down to the cellar. We’ll have snacks (made of food grown by yours truly, right here, even though it’s january). The cellar will have beer. We might play some games, we’ll probably nerd out about vegetables, and we’ll definitely talk about our dreams and schemes for an abundant 2020.

Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Wigley-Fleming Gallery, Center for the Arts, Luther College

Event is open to the public!

Odalis Valdivieso will be speaking about her work in the gallery at 7pm, January 22nd in the Wigley-Fleming Gallery. The talk will be about her research and studio practice as it relates to her current work and her exhibition at Luther titled Trends, currents, and phenomena: The case of the body that became a mountain. Odalis is an artist in residency hosted by the Visual and Performing Arts Department and is making new work alongside current Studio Art majors. The exhibition will be up until Spring break.

Odalis Valdivieso is a Venezuelan-American artist. Her works have been part in solo and group exhibitions such as Performing the self and other selves, Bass Museum of Art public windows; Nearly Contemporary, South Florida Art Center; Invisible, La Caja, Centro Cultural Chacao, Caracas; Arrhythmic Suite, MDC Museum of Art+Design; Paper Folding, Alejandra von Hartz Gallery and Dimensions Variable, Miami; The Sinking Parenthesis, Central Fine, Miami; This is not a Museum, Centro Cultural Español, Miami; among others. Valdivieso has created or contributed to community engaged projects such as Fall Semester, Talking Head Transmitters and The Nightclub. She is the recipient of the 2018 Brooklyn Library Residency Program, the 2016 WaveMaker Grant, the 2004 and 2014 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, as well as various Miami-Dade Community Grants. She currently lives and works in New York City and Miami.

Join Laree Schouweiler, owner of Reefuel Indoor Cycling and Yoga Studio, for a fun and playful storytime!
For children 18 mos – 4 years of age with an active adult.

Root to Rise Community Yoga is an all-levels alignment based class that cultivates connection, curiosity, and balance.  Join us for a practice that allows you to pause, breathe, and move with intention.  You can expect variations, repetition, and guidance towards a peak pose to both meet you where you are at and help you play the line of growth.  When you are deeply rooted you are able to expand out into your life with renewed energy and vitality.

We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.  –Rumi

NE Iowa Peace & Justice Center, Inc. is hosting the first in a series of wintertime potluck and discussions.
This one will feature the showing of two short animated films from The Story of Stuff Project, sharing of local foods and an opportunity to learn about, question, strategize, and imagine ways to address social and environmental problems related to our use of energy and materials.

The non-profit Story of Stuff Project’s journey began in 2007 with a short, engaging film about the way we make, use and throw away all the Stuff in our lives. Since then, they have continued to utilize a simple, artistic documentary style to build awareness about the root causes of many of our social and environmental troubles. Their mission goes well beyond that, however, to include resources like study and training programs plus curriculum materials to assist change-makers worldwide, working to build a more healthy and just planet.

The evening will begin at 5:30 with a local foods potluck where attendees will be challenged to bring food to share that features at least one local ingredient (local meaning produced within no more than 100 miles from Decorah). The person providing the dish with the most local ingredients will be celebrated with a surprise. Please bring your own table service and a card listing which are the local ingredients in your offering.

Two Story of Stuff films will be shown as fodder for discussion and brainstorming shortly after the meal.

You, like many others, may have training in CPR to stabilize
those who are not breathing or in cardiac arrest until emergency responders
arrive.  CPR (short for cardiopulmonary
resuscitation) has saved countless lives of those we love in their time of
need.  But what about the times when
people are in a mental health crisis?  Do
you have the skills and training to perform life-saving mental health intervention? 

QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer — the three
simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide.  Bridgette Hensley, Psy.D., Mayo Clinic Health
System psychologist and QPR certified trainer at Winneshiek Medical Center says,
“Everyone should be trained in QPR. Suicide is one of the most preventable
kinds of death. QPR provides hope and empowers people to help by teaching them
how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question,
persuade, and refer someone to help.”

The QPR mission is to reduce suicidal behaviors and save
lives by providing innovative, practical and proven suicide prevention
training.  QPR training is for anyone:
parents, friends, neighbors, teachers, ministers, doctors, nurses, office
supervisors, foremen, advisors, caseworkers, law enforcement, and many others
who are strategically positioned to recognize and refer someone at risk of
suicide.

Dr. Hensley says, “In CPR the general public is educated
about the classic signs of a heart attack, and then taught how to respond. In
QPR participants are educated about the known warning signs of a suicide
crisis: expressions of hopelessness, depression, giving away prized
possessions, talking of suicide, securing lethal means, and then taught how to
respond.”

Dr. Hensley adds,
“The more people trained in QPR in our community, the more lives will be
saved.”

Free QPR
Training at WMC

Winneshiek Medical Center is holding a free QPR training in
the WMC lower level conference rooms on Thursday, January 23 from 6:30 – 8 pm.   

The training is appropriate for teens and older, and is led
by Dr. Hensley.  Space is limited and
registration is appreciated by Friday, January 17.  Register online at www.winmedical.org/QPR-training
or call WMC at 563-382-2911 and ask for Behavioral Health.