Embodied experiences help us connect to our own truth. Our retreats are immersive, whole-person experiences designed to nourish leaders, teams and the broader food system they influence.
Usually centered around a specific theme, retreats offer a mix of the practical and the profound: leadership and personal development work, concrete strategies for food system evolution, physical practices, ceremony, and good food, alongside honest conversation about the work ahead. As such, retreat participants often gain a more profound understanding of what it means to work with living systems.
We’ll build the strategic and personal capabilities to lead effectively through unprecedented times, examining the beliefs and philosophies behind our decisions and choosing new ones where needed.
Personal development isn’t separate from systems evolution. Growing ourselves and growing the food system are the same work. We build the internal capacities that increase the effectiveness of our leadership.
We will engage in rituals to reawaken our connection to the living world and remind us of the magic in the mundane.
Rest, rejuvenation, and getting into our bodies will balance our meetings and strategy work.
Community is essential to evolving systems and working in new ways; we will leave with new relationships: people we can call on, collaborate with, and be in relationship with long after the retreat ends.
When life demands it, people come together and self-organize with miraculous results. History has shown that we humans have an enormous capacity to prevail against what initially appear to be insurmountable odds.
The key, we believe, is for us to care so deeply about something that we cannot accept failure as an option. Once this becomes true, individually and collectively, we find enormous reserves of courage, ingenuity, grit, and will–and we mobilize with astonishing speed.
