What are retreat centers doing - beyond scholarship - to build a sense of belonging for BIPOC people? This question is a helpful guide for centers to compare notes on their options, actions, and agency in continuing to move toward right relationship and repair.

What will it take for your organization or retreat center to tend to the wound of racism? As Lorren Buck and Marissa Metelica from the Racial Healing Initiative Team shared during a May 2022 Community Call, we can heal from the wounds. We can dream into possibilities of transformation.

Lorren Buck and Arleen Peterson, Racial Healing Initiative team members, shared with participants an understanding spiritual bypassing, how it can show up in retreat center work, and collectively, how we can rise above spiritual bypassing.

Our legacies include people of great wisdom, champions of justice and with immense fortitude.  People who convened in sweat lodges, hush harbors and retreat centers.  In these places they purified their spirits, nourished their souls, and conditioned their bodies for the battles ahead.  Together we remember how they too helped to build the spiritual foundation for a loving world.

Victoria Santos and Jenyng Wu share the aggregated data and analysis that the Racial Healing Initiative collected in the retreat center assessment survey conducted in January 2022.

The Racial Healing Initiative team opens their series of community offerings on racial healing by inviting retreat center leaders to bring their questions and stories about race, power, and racial healing. In this RCC Community Call, Arleen Peterson and Rachel Plattus facilitate practice, story-sharing, and discussion.

Our first community call of 2022 is an exchange of our collective learnings and a discussion on how we may turn to our local and marginalized communities to help us hold this question.

Explore several facets of the RCC community's recent efforts around racial equity, justice, and healing, and hear from the program designers and facilitators who have contributed their leadership to the following RCC programs: Roots to Reach, the JEDI Circle, and the Racial Healing Initiative.

The Retreat Center Collaboration is excited to announce the launch of the Racial Healing Initiative, a brand-new RCC program made possible with generous support from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and other future supporters.

For the past 6 months, the Retreat Center Collaboration has invited retreat center leaders into an embodied practice together in a JEDI Circle. Facilitators Jenyng Wu and Justine Johnson joined us for a recent Community Call to share what they've learned along the way.

This JEDI Series Discussion connects the RCC community with the work of our peers at Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme). Learn about iBme's journey toward greater equity and interdependence, and their recent transition to a collaborative leadership model.

How are retreat centers and holistic centers using a JEDI lens to deepen their work in justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion? How do we create JEDI spaces and circles? Jenyng Wu guides us through a reflective and embodied framing of JEDI. Click to learn more.

Jenyng Wu hosted last week’s Community Call on JEDI: the lens of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Let’s walk through her illustrations and our collaborative learning process. Click to learn more.

What is JEDI work? How are retreat centers and holistic centers using a JEDI lens to deepen their work in justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion? Jenyng Wu guides us through a collaborative design process while introducing us to JEDI. Click to learn more and watch the video.