Virtual Town Hall
Diana Scearce, learning consultant for the Retreat Center Collaboration, led a discussion on our January 25th Community Call to identify what information would be helpful for our community to advance the work of retreat centers. Recognizing that retreat centers are uniquely individual, we also share common themes of current and future needs. This Town Hall was a forum to share these needs with each other, as partial input to designing a larger RCC Community Survey to be conducted later this spring 2022.
You can view responses to the question “What information and insights from the RCC Community would help advance your center’s work?” here. Responses are grouped into themes based on innovative staffing and shared resources, deep collaboration, responding to COVID-19 and other policies, and access and equity.
As a group, we dug deeper into the conversation about access and equity, specifically around pricing for online, on-the-land, and hybrid programs. The group discussed several avenues, options, and wonderments:
Asking for an additional donation or support for scholarships and off-setting true cost of programs;
Partnering with organizations and writing grants to support program costs for those who do not have financial means;
Offering some programs at no-cost to participants or a ‘choose your own fee’ but share with them the true cost of the program.
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