Completed in July 2023, our Sustainability Toolkit offers an overview of the recent Cal Poly sustainability study and its findings, including highlights from the students’ literature review and data analysis. The toolkit suggests key areas for improvement, provides a tool and manual, plus links to related data.

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.

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.

Join leaders from Pendle Hill in PA, Manresa Jesuit Retreat House in MI, and Spirit Center in ID as they share the spotlight on their reopening experiences in short presentations and a Q+A.

Our collaborative partners at Retreat Guru join us for a conversation on the current needs and wishes of retreat centers. If you were given a magic wand at your organization, where would you wave it? Click to learn 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.

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Michelle Scheidt and Xiaoan Li of the Fetzer Institute share outcomes from their new research on creating sacred space virtually, offering us some best practices while also inviting RCC participants to share ideas and learn from each other. Click to watch the video.

Today’s call with Sue Phillips harnessed recent research to reveal five trends in spiritual and community-building innovation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, how have traditional avenues of community-building and meaning-making shifted, and how can retreat centers offer leadership now? Watch the video to learn more.