Last month, Yolanda Ramirez Salto announced her resignation from her position as program specialist at the Dominican Center Marywood at Aquinas College, and has therefore stepped down from her role in the RCC Stewardship Circle. We’re grateful for Yolanda’s infectious inspiration and contributions to the team, and we wish her much success in her future endeavors.

Learn about how retreat centers are building relationships, establishing partnerships, and starting collaborative projects between retreat centers, movement groups, and community-based organizations.

In partnership with a team of Cal Poly University students, the Retreat Center Collaboration is studying models for financial and programmatic sustainability at retreat centers.

Rev. Lorren Buck joined us on our February 14th Community Call to facilitate a racial healing workshop grounded in Resmaa Menakem’s The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning.

We’re excited to gather with the Retreat Center Collaboration community this October 22 - 25, at Five Oaks Centre in Ontario!

On our January 24th Community Call, we exchanged best practices for staffing, discussed ways to develop a culture of equity within our centers, and brainstormed mental health supports.

We are pleased to announce that the Center for Healing and Liberation has expanded its capacity by hiring Brenda Salgado as the new program director for the Racial Healing Initiative.

On this Community Call, we discussed the pain points for retreat center leadership and board—how they’re rising to meet ongoing challenges and embracing intergenerational and intercultural leadership.

On our last Community Call of 2022, we reconnected to celebrate our shared story.

At the Retreat Center Collaboration, we’re celebrating an abundant year of change, growth, and impact.

On our November 22nd Community Call, we explored the idea of the Retreat Center Collaboration as a membership association.

On November 8, Amy Burtaine and Michelle C. Johnson led a racial healing workshop on facilitating affinity groups at retreat centers.

As the end of the year approaches, the RCC is looking back on how our community has grown, deepened, and transformed together.

The RCC Community Call on October 25th featured a presentation and Q&A session with marketing consultant Rebecca Churt.

The RCC welcomes Erin McAuley as the new administrative assistant.

The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope is a new podcast from Pendle Hill Quaker retreat center in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.

On October 11, the Stewardship Circle gathered with community members to share their stories and discuss their vision for the future of the Retreat Center Collaboration.

At this racial healing workshop, Dr. Leticia Nieto facilitates a series of embodied exercises to explore a developmental strategy toward liberation. “We can change our relationships to supremacy and privilege. We’re working to be counterers rather than carriers.”

Pandemic-era onsite retreats look and feel a little different for many of us. See what folks shared in this peer support dialogue as we enter the last quarter of 2022.

In this blog post, Peter Wrinch of Hollyhock illustrates how “our work at retreat centers… posits human connection as an antidote to the modern illness of separation and disconnection.”