Let the Beauty You Love: A Retreat for Renewal & Engaged Social Action

This retreat explores issues of transition, vocational calling, passion, life purpose, meaning, direction and underlying life patterns to live in greater alignment with your core values, to listen to your own inner wisdom, and to reconnect who you are with what you do.

While exploring  personal life transitions, this retreat acknowledges the global polycrisis we face that includes climate change, political polarization, war, and injustice.  Now more than ever, we need a renewed commitment to social and environmental engagement and justice in this very complex time. Together we will deepen our insight and understanding of  the roots of structural violence so we can engage in the world with  creativity,  courage, love, and hope. This retreat will ground us in  resilience, connection and contemplative practices that renew and sustain body, mind and spirit.

The retreat  provides a safe space to slow down and nurture personal and professional integrity, and the courage to lean into socially engaged action.

What You Will Learn:

• Navigate important life stage transitions with a community of mutual support
• Connect with the sacred as you align heart and soul with action in the world
• Reflect on your most meaningful values, relationships, priorities, and life purpose and broader issues of social justice
• Discern what’s next for you with creativity and acceptance
• Explore and apply new practices and frameworks to your stage of life
• Gain valuable insights to ignite your life and your work
• Cultivate a sense of joy and connection to your own learning process

Program Features:

• Weekend retreat that include individual and small group reflection, guided mindfulness meditation, engagement in nature and creative arts
• All meals
• Exploration of diverse frameworks, including Quaker faith and practice, Buddhist teachings in the Plum Village tradition, Gestalt psychotherapy, creative expression, and social justice
• All materials
• Expert facilitation