Giving the Wound Air: Expressing the Inexpressible In Your Own Words
With Susan Musgrave
May 12 - 17, 2024
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional,” - attributed to the Dalai Lama It is hard work, when we are grieving, not to suffer; suffering — personal and universal — has become a condition of how we live. Yet we are bereft of time to grieve. Writing, especially poetry, fiction, journaling…
Exploring Ocean Mysteries: The Science and Poetry of The Salish Sea
With Marjorie Wonham, Ph.D. and Melanie Koenderman
May 31 - June 5, 2024
The ocean has long inspired curiosity and imagination in scientists and poets alike. Join us in a lively, embodied, place-based experience of the beautiful waters and life of the Salish Sea. In this unique program we will explore ocean shorelines and ocean poetry, and create our own poems that deepen…
Tapping the Stream: A Spring Writing Retreat
With Betsy Warland and Shaena Lambert
June 23 - 30, 2024
Tapping the Stream is a week-long retreat - free from interruption - to explore the direction of a work in progress, as well as to foster creativity through community with other writers. “Tapping the Stream is the most wonderful workshop I have ever attended. The facilitators helped me get back…
Between the Human Animal and the Animate Earth
With David Abram
July 26 - 31, 2024
How can we open a fresh and unshakeable solidarity between ourselves and the other animals, plants, and elemental forces that compose this breathing biosphere? The deepening contortions of climate change – intensifying droughts, monster floods, flaring wildfires and heart-wrenching geopolitical cataclysms – all ensure that our species is tumbling toward…
You Are Not Your Story
With Mark Matousek
August 4 - 9, 2024
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until May 5, 2024.
"I cannot say enough about this profound writing practice to heal, and awaken. I went away feeling weightier, more embodied, with a deep sense of having recovered more of my authentic voice, and depth of presence." - Krystal Dyan, Past participant Realizing you are not your story is a quantum…
Depth Ecology Camp
With Nora Bateson, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Rex Weyler and Kairn Mahon Carrington
August 14 - 18, 2024
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until May 15, 2024.
With Special Guests Merlin Sheldrake, Erin Robinsong and David Abram. Humans do not stand apart from the earth and its living systems. To address our global challenges, we must start from our roots as creatures of this Earth. What does it mean to take action and adopt a genuinely ecological…
Harmony Within: A Journey of Songwriting and Reconnection
With Leah Abramson and Samantha Parton
September 27 - October 2, 2024
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jun 28, 2024.
Writing can be a powerful tool of self-expression and intimacy with one's deepest thoughts and feelings. The “Harmony Within” workshop explores songwriting as a medium, a practice, and a journey through which we can reconnect with our creative source, our vulnerability, and our inner wisdom, harnessing the healing power of…