Our Home
Growing Together
Every meaningful home is shaped through many hands, many hearts, and a shared commitment to something greater than ourselves. The journey of creating this home has reflected the very values we hope to cultivate within it—resilience, generosity, collaboration, and the belief that flourishing is something we nurture together.
While much has been accomplished, our work continues. We are completing the interior spaces and accessibility features that will ensure every person is welcomed with dignity, comfort, and care. From roll-in showers and accessible entrances to the furnishings and everyday details that help this home more fully reflect its purpose, each step brings this vision more fully to life.
If this vision resonates with you, we invite you to become part of the story of The Power of One. Whether through financial support, shared expertise, acts of service, or simply by sharing this work with others, every contribution helps cultivate a place where relationship can take root, healing can continue, and people and communities can flourish together.
The Power of One begins with one person, grows through relationship, and flourishes in community. If these words feel familiar, perhaps you're already a part of this story. We invite you to help cultivate a sacred place where our shared humanity is honored, relationships are nurtured, and future generations are welcomed—one person, one relationship, and one community at a time.
Where Relationship Takes Root:
Life, Land, Spirit
Interconnectedness in Action
This home exists to cultivate the conditions where people, relationships, and communities can flourish. Nestled within a living ecosystem, the home, the land, the waters, the plants, the wildlife, and the changing seasons remind us that life has always existed through relationship. We are not separate from the world around us; we are participants within it.
Here, healing is understood as both a personal and a shared journey. As we grow more at home within ourselves, we become better able to enter authentic relationships with others. Those relationships, in turn, continue to shape and deepen our healing. Relationship is the context. Healing is the work. Flourishing is the fruit.
We think of this place as a living classroom—not because knowledge is simply taught here, but because it is experienced. Shared meals, quiet reflection, meaningful conversations, time on the land, laughter, creativity, and collective problem-solving all become opportunities to practice a more connected way of living. The shared wisdom of the community becomes one of our greatest teachers, revealing that each person's lived experience enriches the wellbeing of the whole.
Honoring the Land
Our home rests on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋ (Yankton) Dakota Oyate, the historic protectors of the sacred pipe. We acknowledge with gratitude the enduring relationship Indigenous peoples have maintained with this land across countless generations and recognize that our presence here carries both responsibility and opportunity.
Just a short drive away lies the Pipestone National Monument and Quarry, a place of profound cultural and spiritual significance for the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Seven Council Fires) and many other Tribal Nations. For generations, people have gathered there in respect, ceremony, craftsmanship, and relationship. We are humbled to live and learn within the broader landscape that continues to hold these traditions.
Honoring this place means more than offering acknowledgment. It calls us to practice truth and historical accountability, shared stewardship, and collective care. We believe communities flourish when people are empowered to speak their own truths, steward the resources entrusted to them, and contribute their unique perspectives for the wellbeing of all.
The relationships we cultivate here extend beyond the walls of this home. They continue within our families, neighborhoods, organizations, and communities, creating opportunities for lasting change rooted in compassion, belonging, and shared responsibility.
Gatherings may take many forms—retreats, workshops, community conversations, shared meals, reflection, creative expression, and collaborative action—but each begins with the same invitation: to become more deeply human together.
As individuals grow in self-understanding and communities grow in trust, new possibilities begin to emerge. Together we cultivate relationships that strengthen our collective capacity to respond to the challenges of our time with wisdom, courage, and lovingkindness. In doing so, we contribute to a legacy of human flourishing that extends far beyond any one person, place, or generation.