Our annual retreat last week at Five Oaks Centre in Ontario was a four-day celebration of the RCC community. We discussed resilience, racial healing, land stewardship, learning through gaming and play, operations and programming, bringing core values to life, and more. Such a joy to be together!

We are delighted to begin connecting retreat centers and allied organizations across the RCC network with Bonner programs, students and alumni around the United States who are passionate about community building, diversity, social justice, spiritual exploration, and wellness.

How is your center similar or different from others in the RCC community? What might you learn from your peer centers? What supports are community members requesting from RCC? Check out our 2022 survey results to learn more!

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.

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.

On April 14 the Retreat Center Collaboration joined up with the Holistic Centers Network and Advaya to share a joint webinar. We learned more about each other, the values that guide our organizations and programming, and the different ways we approach collaboration in our networks and communities.

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.

Maps, graphs, and polls! This call explores our community survey data, collected from 46 retreat centers in November 2020, helping us understand where we are now and where we might be headed as a sector of 110+ retreat centers across the US and Canada.

Learn more in our Mighty Network.