On this Community Call, RCC peers gathered celebrate Ben Scott-Brandt and all the RCC has accomplished under his leadership.

Our annual retreat last week at Five Oaks Centre in Ontario was a four-day celebration of the RCC community. We discussed resilience, racial healing, land stewardship, learning through gaming and play, operations and programming, bringing core values to life, and more. Such a joy to be together!

As the Retreat Center Collaboration enters its fifth year, we’re updating aspects of our governance structure, core funding, fiscal sponsorship, and staffing to better reflect our values and better support our community and programs.

In a time of multiple crises, the future of retreat centers is often unclear. So when partners in our collaboration break ground for new construction, it’s a cause for celebration! Click to read the story of the future site of the Commons—a flexible, multi-purpose space for hosting transformative work in the years and decades ahead.

Retreatsgiving, copied from Friendsgiving, copied from Thanksgiving! Whose land are we on, what are we grateful for, and what are our recipes for building community? Click to watch the video.