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.

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.

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.

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.

Our second Land Legacies session brought together retreat center leaders across the United States to discuss how retreat centers are contributing to the legacy of the land on which they're situated. "The land" is a complex and interdependent web of life -- whose legacy extends across time -- and at retreat centers we are both stewards of, and co-facilitators with the land.

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.”

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.