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.

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.

On this call, Christine Lajoie, HR manager at Fetzer Institute, and Francisco Burgos, executive director at Pendle Hill, share best practices, challenges, successes, and learnings in regards to human resources and compensation.

The journey through the pandemic has often been a hazardous one for retreat centers. In this community call, we learn from Eve Wachhaus at Pearlstone about how her team has navigated the last two years at this adventurous retreat center in Baltimore.

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.

On this Community Call, we take stock of our community's needs and interests, discuss how retreat centers are structuring equitable pricing for programs, and share pandemic-related news and check-ins as we continue to navigate those challenges.

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.

For our Community Call in the week prior to Thanksgiving and Native American Heritage Day, a small group of RCC community members gathered to spend time together slowing down and turning inward. Several folks brought poems to pass around — a way to share in the bounty of our collective wisdom.

Wondering what technological platforms other retreat centers are using? On this community call, peers share their experiences with applications, software, and platforms.

On this week’s Community Call, Shakiyla Smith, Vice President of Organizational Culture at the Fetzer Institute, shared her professional insights on navigating complexity and meeting adaptive challenges in the sacred spaces of retreat centers.

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.

On this Community Call, hear an overview of the RCC’s 3-year history, and then explore introductory questions, commentary, and stories from participants around the country. These stories reveal a shared sense of grief and loss, punctuated by hope and resilience.

Join leaders from across the country as they share their hybrid program designs, stories of challenges and success, and tips for design and implementation on this Community Call. Highlights from the presentations and Q&A are captured in our notes.

We’ve been digging more deeply into the various interpretations we hold of the meaning of ‘retreat centers’ and ‘retreat centeredness.’ On this Community Call, we reflect collectively and in small groups on our various interpretations and how they impact our work.

‘Land legacies’ is a useful phrase because it’s versatile and provocative. It teases us into thinking bigger. How did this conversation start at the RCC? And where is it headed? RCC Program Manager Ben Scott-Brandt shares what he’s learning from the network in this short essay.

After our Flourishing Together retreat last week, today's Community Call provided quick tours of our network map, geographic map, and Mighty Network social platform, as well as 40-minute topical breakout rooms for further discussion on the threads we explored during the retreat.

Join leaders from Pendle Hill in PA, Manresa Jesuit Retreat House in MI, and Spirit Center in ID as they share the spotlight on their reopening experiences in short presentations and a Q+A.

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.

Our collaborative partners at Retreat Guru join us for a conversation on the current needs and wishes of retreat centers. If you were given a magic wand at your organization, where would you wave it? Click to learn more.