Today’s Community Call brought together 27 retreat center leaders from 16 retreat centers to discuss vaccines. Check out our Collaborative Document and other resources from this call. Click to view the video.

We’re inviting retreat center leaders, along with members of boards and staff, to join a collaboration hub focused on ecological and environmental justice.

Learn more and join the conversation in our Mighty Network.

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.

Like fungal networks connecting many species of trees, our exchange of resources across the sector contributes to our growing resilience. How has 2020 shaped your retreat center? And how has it catalyzed the development of a cooperative and supportive network between your center and others? Click to watch the video.

Retreatsgiving, copied from Friendsgiving, copied from Thanksgiving! Whose land are we on, what are we grateful for, and what are our recipes for building community? Click to watch the video.

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.

We’d like to introduce you to the two newest members of the Retreat Center Collaboration’s Steering Committee, Jenyng Wu and Arleen Peterson. Click to read more.

In a time of uncertainty, retreat center leaders are sharing the poems, images, songs, and relationships that inspire them. Click to sink into a contemplative space with these touchstones.

Join us for a quick tour of our new Mighty Networks platform, designed just for retreat centers. Then check out a sneak peek of our new video. It tells the story of retreat centers building community during the pandemic. Together we're exploring how we can tell the next chapter -- the future of retreat centers. Click to read more.

Jenyng Wu hosted last week’s Community Call on JEDI: the lens of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Let’s walk through her illustrations and our collaborative learning process. Click to learn more.

What is JEDI work? How are retreat centers and holistic centers using a JEDI lens to deepen their work in justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion? Jenyng Wu guides us through a collaborative design process while introducing us to JEDI. Click to learn more and watch the video.

Scenario thinking opens up layers of possibility, and supports wise decision-making as retreat centers navigate the current COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing social uprising for racial justice. Click to learn more and watch the video.

As online programming expands retreat center audiences into new geographies, how can we support a community-building process? How have justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion been a part of our personal and professional work? And what about opening our physical spaces? Click to learn more and watch the video.

As online programming expands retreat center audiences into new geographies, how can we support a community-building process? How have justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion been a part of our personal and professional work? And what about opening our physical spaces? Click to learn more and watch the video.

Retreat centers are telling their stories in new ways, and sharing them on many virtual platforms to build engagement. What are some best practices in this work? Hint: be authentic! Watch the video to learn more.

What is possible now, that retreat centers are just discovering? Jean and Margarita share exciting stories of online engagement and connection, and invite folks to share insights from centers across the continent. Watch the video to learn more.

How do we reopen safely and responsibly? Today’s call showcased two retreat centers whose reopening approaches are quite different. We explored how their examples might guide decisions at centers across the continent. Watch the video to learn more.

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.

Today’s Community Call, facilitated by Dan Hines, brought us into a bodily awareness of our own sea of experience. Listening to Dan’s storytelling, we were guided into reflection on the wave patterns and wave disruptions in our lives and spaces — individually and as retreat centers. Watch the video to learn more.

The Retreat Center Collaboration received its first formal press this week in the National Catholic Reporter, thanks to this great article written by our colleague, Mark Piper.