We are pleased to announce that the Center for Healing and Liberation has expanded its capacity by hiring Brenda Salgado as the new program director for the Racial Healing Initiative.

On this Community Call, we discussed the pain points for retreat center leadership and board—how they’re rising to meet ongoing challenges and embracing intergenerational and intercultural leadership.

On our last Community Call of 2022, we reconnected to celebrate our shared story.

At the Retreat Center Collaboration, we’re celebrating an abundant year of change, growth, and impact.

On our November 22nd Community Call, we explored the idea of the Retreat Center Collaboration as a membership association.

On November 8, Amy Burtaine and Michelle C. Johnson led a racial healing workshop on facilitating affinity groups at retreat centers.

As the end of the year approaches, the RCC is looking back on how our community has grown, deepened, and transformed together.

The RCC Community Call on October 25th featured a presentation and Q&A session with marketing consultant Rebecca Churt.

The RCC welcomes Erin McAuley as the new administrative assistant.

The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope is a new podcast from Pendle Hill Quaker retreat center in Wallingford, Pennsylvania.

On October 11, the Stewardship Circle gathered with community members to share their stories and discuss their vision for the future of the Retreat Center Collaboration.

At this racial healing workshop, Dr. Leticia Nieto facilitates a series of embodied exercises to explore a developmental strategy toward liberation. “We can change our relationships to supremacy and privilege. We’re working to be counterers rather than carriers.”

Pandemic-era onsite retreats look and feel a little different for many of us. See what folks shared in this peer support dialogue as we enter the last quarter of 2022.

In this blog post, Peter Wrinch of Hollyhock illustrates how “our work at retreat centers… posits human connection as an antidote to the modern illness of separation and disconnection.”

The Two Loops theory is a simple and elegant way to think broadly about systems change. At the Retreat Center Collaboration, we’re exploring systems change within the field of retreat centers, and developing mutual understanding and peer support for centers on both loops.

What are retreat centers doing - beyond scholarship - to build a sense of belonging for BIPOC people? This question is a helpful guide for centers to compare notes on their options, actions, and agency in continuing to move toward right relationship and repair.

RCC is hiring a part-time Administrative Assistant who will work in close partnership with the Program Director to support and bring out the best in a diverse community of retreat center leaders.

On our community call August 9th, we heard from retreat-adjacent initiatives, folks imagining new centers, and peers who are innovating how they offer retreat. Check out the highlights!

RCC thrives on community input, and we're looking for a group of volunteers to advise our leadership. Share your insights on the work of retreat centers, and help inform the Stewardship Circle as they guide the Retreat Center Collaboration.

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!