On this call led by Brenda Salgado, program director of the Racial Healing Initiative, community members gathered to explore money stories. Opening up our money stories is a way to observe and transform our relationship to the flow of abundance.

On this Community Call, participants gathered to discuss staffing at retreat centers.

While gathering for the final Community Call of 2023, RCC community members reflected on the year and our shared story as a community.

On this Community Call, participants shared poems and stories that have given them strength and inspired them in the important work of retreat centers.

In this interview with the producer of the new documentary film, SABBATH, RCC program director Ben Scott-Brandt explores how the concept of sabbath connects with the work of retreat centers.

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.

Like quests, we often think of retreats as journeys out of the ordinary, toward depth and clarity in special ‘thin places’ where transformation and transcendence break through. In this thoughtful essay, Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma encourages us to “embrace the freedom to trust the ordinariness of our work.”

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.

Justine Johnson reflects on these multimedia stories of the RCC during the pandemic. This week marks one year since we held our first Community Call addressing COVID-19 on March 10, 2020. Click to read more.

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.

Like fungal networks connecting many species of trees, our exchange of resources across the sector contributes to our growing resilience. How has 2020 shaped your retreat center? And how has it catalyzed the development of a cooperative and supportive network between your center and others? Click to watch the video.

Michelle Scheidt and Xiaoan Li of the Fetzer Institute share outcomes from their new research on creating sacred space virtually, offering us some best practices while also inviting RCC participants to share ideas and learn from each other. Click to watch the video.

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.

Today’s Community Call, facilitated by Dan Hines, brought us into a bodily awareness of our own sea of experience. Listening to Dan’s storytelling, we were guided into reflection on the wave patterns and wave disruptions in our lives and spaces — individually and as retreat centers. Watch the video to learn more.

Sally and Jean held space for a Circle of Trust on today’s call, asking “what sustains us, as our centers sustain others?” Poetry, breakout groups, reflective journaling — all in one call. Watch the video to learn more.