Multiday Retreats

Twelve Steps to Creativity: Collage-Making Workshop

Create, connect, and recharge with this intensive workshop designed to open — or reopen — your channels of creative flow. Led by artist, musician, and writer Patrick Dougher, we will practice connecting with inspiration through relaxing mindfulness practices, judgment-free collage- and art-making workshops, reflective writing, and more. 

Mending the Web: Awakening to Our Relationship With Creation

We are in a relationship with Creation, whether we're aware of it or not. In this retreat, co-led by Program Manager for Spiritual Formation Samantha Trolice and Retreat Center Farm Manager Laura Alexander, we will draw from scripture, poetry, music, and science as we ponder our responsibility to nourish, support, and liberate Creation. 

This retreat will take place predominantly outdoors in all types of weather and will include physical activity.  
 

Write From the Heart of Creation: A Contemplative Writing Retreat

As humans, we write about our experiences of love, loss, joy, and fear. But elements of nature are crying out to be heard as well. With guidance from award-winning journalist Anne A. Simpkinson, we will braid prayer, writing prompts, and story sharing, all with special attention to The Book of Nature, plus time to commune with animals and nature. 

Mending Into the New: Spirituality and the Art of Mending

Led by Makoto Fujimura’s Academy Kintsugi

Kintsugi is a venerable Japanese art form of mending broken ceramics with gold. (Kin is gold and Tsugi is to mend/connect.)  
During this retreat, participants will learn the traditional craft of Kintsugi, led by Academy Kintsugi's trained facilitators. Experience an immersive journey as we explore themes in spiritual formation such as imperfection, beauty in brokenness, self-compassion, value, healing, renewal, and becoming.  
Academy Kintsugi, cofounded by internationally renowned artist Makoto Fujimura and international advocate/entrepreneur Haejin Shim 
Fujimura, fosters Kintsugi-Peace Making Towards Culture Care and Community.

Farm to Table and You

Experience true farm-to-table living. From morning harvests to mindful mealtimes, Retreat Center Head Chef Julia Phillips and Retreat Center Senior Farm and Facilities Manager Laura Alexander will teach us to focus on what our food is doing to our bodies and our earth, take in the beauty of the Retreat Center grounds, and reconnect with our relationship to food in a new and informed way. 

The Tree of Life

Led by Summerlee Staten

Join us for meaningful conversation, storytelling and teaching as Summerlee Staten, Executive Director of Faith Formation & Education at Trinity Church, shares insights from her graduate work on the Tree of the Life — a central metaphor for the entire Bible.  
From its roots in the Garden of Eden to its role at the end of the book of Revelation in the New Testament, the story of the tree is also the story of Eden, lost and found. Like the “tree planted by water” in Psalm One, Christians are called to bear good fruit, living our lives with patience and hope even in times of uncertainty and change, so that we can be connected to Jesus, able to live lives of resilience, meaning, and joy.

Rest, Reconnect, and Listen: Discernment for Deeper Living [Silent retreat]

Whether you're going through a major life change, desire a new life path, or need time for quiet contemplation, this silent retreat will help you deepen your spiritual journey. Come pray, read, write, and walk in nature, led by priest and Director for Spiritual Formation Rev. Dr. Mark Francisco Bozzuti-Jones. Space is limited to six people.

Presence, Prayer and Writing From the Heart: A Contemplative Writing Retreat

The most compelling stories are written from the heart — those that move us and sometimes transform both the writer and the reader. Writing this way is a journey of discovery — and presence and prayer can help. Led by award-winning journalist Anne A. Simpkinson, we will braid prayer, writing prompts, and story sharing, plus enjoy time to commune with animals and nature. 

Celebrating Our Identity: A Retreat for the LGBTQ+ Community

Honor the LGBTQ+ community in prayer, meditation, laughter, celebration, and the giving and receiving of support in a sacred space that’s welcoming of all identities and gender expressions. Come for a time of mindfulness, music, healing, and lovingkindness, led by Rev. Michelle Meech, rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Kingston, New York, and Ana Hernandez, recording artist, composer, and retreat facilitator.

Deeper Work With the Enneagram

Who are we called to become? Rev. Michelle Meech, teacher of the Enneagram for more than 25 years, will take us beyond the Enneagram of personality and offer a glimpse of how the different facets of God’s wisdom are truly written on our hearts through teaching, meditation, and hands-on exercises.
This retreat is not designed to be an introductory workshop, and participants will need to prepare beforehand (see further details).