{"id":3174,"date":"2021-01-11T19:57:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T19:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/admissions\/?page_id=3174"},"modified":"2025-10-02T19:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T19:53:21","slug":"posseplus-retreat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/admissions\/undergraduate-admissions\/posse-scholars\/posseplus-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"PossePlus Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>PossePlus Retreat 2026<\/h2>\n<h4>Once Upon a Time\u2026Fables, Fiction, and Facts<\/h4>\n<p>From bedtime fables to breaking news, from ancient myths to Marvel movies, from family jokes to viral TikToks, we are surrounded by stories that shape who we are and our communities. But we don\u2019t always have the time to ask:\u00a0What is your story?\u00a0Whose stories are we listening to? Which ones have we forgotten?\u00a0And what stories can we tell together?\u00a0The PossePlus Retreat 2026 will provide an opportunity for us to use storytelling to share who we are and connect deeply with one another. With so much going on, it\u2019s more important than ever that we have time and space to intentionally connect with one another.<\/p>\n<h4><em>About PossePlus Retreat 2025 \u2013 Connection, Resilience, and Joy<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>In our 2025 PossePlus Retreat, we will step away from our everyday lives and find space to connect with one another. We will discuss the colossal changes America has undergone over the past few years, shifts that have both transformed our daily lives and challenged our collective sense of community and belonging. In our Retreat, we will explore such questions as: How can we stay connected to one another when issues are so fraught and we may disagree? How can we be resilient in the face of hardship&#8211;and how can we support one another in remaining so? Why are joy, happiness, and love so critical in this moment? How can we practice them together?<\/p>\n<h4>About PossePlus Retreat 2024 \u2013 <em>Education\u2026recalculating<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>In our 2024 PossePlus Retreat, we explored the following questions: \u201cWhat is the purpose of a college or university today? Is it to provide the best possible education to its students? Is it to develop productive citizens for a global society? Is it to champion research and scientific discovery?<span class=\"x_MsoHyperlink\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"x_text-format-content\">Have our new ways of being imposed limits on access to higher education? How do we\u00a0grapple with different ways of thinking on campus? How do we now think about academic\u00a0freedom? What\u2019s right? What\u2019s wrong? What\u2019s ethical? And what constitutes a \u201cgood\u201d\u00a0education?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"x_paragraph\"><span class=\"x_normaltextrun\">About PossePlus Retreat 2023 \u2013 <\/span><span class=\"x_normaltextrun\"><i>Truth or Consequences?<\/i><\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"x_paragraph\"><span class=\"x_normaltextrun\">Posse Scholars, students, and guests explored the role of truth and its impact on key structures within our society like education, politics, the criminal justice system, elections, and our lives. What is truth? Why does fact get questioned? What are the consequences of disputing the truth? What role does social media and the news play? Who do we trust to tell the truth? How do we hold people accountable?<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"x_paragraph\"><span class=\"x_normaltextrun\">About PossePlus Retreat 2022 \u2013 <\/span><em>Calling on Community<\/em><\/h4>\n<p class=\"x_paragraph\"><span class=\"x_normaltextrun\">We returned to our campuses, some for the first time, and were recreating what it meant to be a community. The 2022 Virtual PossePlus Retreat provided space for our community to discuss this unique moment, in which we all had an opportunity to rethink, reinvent, and restore our communities. How do we work together to create new\u202fand inclusive\u202fnorms? How do we find time to invest in each other while also taking care of ourselves? How can our campus community move forward together? How do the policies, practices, and cultural forces of the day create opportunities for transformation? And, finally, what is our responsibility to each other?<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"x_paragraph\"><span class=\"x_normaltextrun\">About PossePlus Retreat 2021 \u2013 <i>The State of Politics<\/i><\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"x_paragraph\"><span class=\"x_normaltextrun\">As the 2020 election approached, the country had been talking more and more about the state of political discourse in the United States. How you engage politically, today, will help determine how this nation deals with these and other issues tomorrow and for years to come. The 2020 PossePlus Retreat focused on how we talk about the hardest issues facing our nation and threatening our democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PossePlus Retreat 2026 Once Upon a Time\u2026Fables, Fiction, and Facts From bedtime fables to breaking news, from ancient myths to Marvel movies, from family jokes to viral TikToks, we are surrounded by stories that shape who we are and our communities. 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