In-Person Retreats
The retreat center is open for in-person themed retreats.
The health and well-being of everyone—our guests and staff—is our highest priority. Learn more about our COVID-19 safety guidelines.
If retreats must be canceled due to the state of public health at the time of any of these retreats, we will issue full refunds to registrants.
Pride. Celebrate. Retreat. Celebrating LGBTQ+ Communities
September 6–8, 2022, with John Deuel, the Rev. Bill Cruse, and the Rev. Dr. Mark Francisco Bozzuti-Jones
This retreat offers an opportunity for members of the LGBTQ+ communities to come together for guided prayer, rest, reflection, walks, the sharing of stories, and contemplation using poetry and Scripture.
Living a Life of Joy: Reconciliation and the Pursuit of Joy
September 16-18, 2022 with Dr. Miroslav Volf
How do we live a joyful life in healthy relationship with others, even those with whom we might have disagreements? What is the relationship between joy and reconciliation? This will be an exciting weekend retreat for participants to think more deeply about the places where we find joy and to ask how God might be speaking to us afresh in a beautiful autumn setting. Come for rich conversations and dynamic teaching. Join Dr. Miroslav Volf, renowned theologian from Yale Divinity School, author of Exclusion and Embrace and The Home of God: A Brief Story of Everything (with Ryan McAnnally-Linz).
Your Poems. Your Prayers: A Weekend with Mary Oliver and Maya Angelou
September 23–25, 2022 with the Rev. Dr. Mark Francisco Bozzuti-Jones and Dr. Kathy Bozzuti-Jones
Join us for a weekend of prayer, reflection, writing, silence, and sharing of poems to inspire us on our spiritual journeys. Led by the Rev. Dr. Mark Francisco Bozzuti-Jones and Dr. Kathy Bozzuti-Jones, participants will spend a weekend reflecting on the poetry of Mary Oliver and Maya Angelou. Come. Share your poems and prayers. Write new poems and prayers, as we draw inspiration from the prophetic, contemplative, and liberating prose of Mary Oliver and Maya Angelou.
Nature, Environmental Justice and EarthCare: A Spiritual Weekend Retreat
November 18-20, 2022, with Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures have proclaimed across millennia: life on this planet is radically interconnected. Join Lyanda Lynn Haupt, an award-winning author, naturalist, and ecophilosopher, as we explore her book Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature and Spirit. In Rooted, Lyanda explores “rootedness” as a way of being in concert with wilderness—and wildness—and throughout the book she offers practices, way-markers and fortification for all who are seeking our unique, bewildering path through the essential question of how to live with grace and authenticity on our imperiled, beloved earth. This will be an exciting retreat for participants to think more deeply about environmental justice, the places where we find joy, and our connection to nature.
Thanksgiving Retreat
November 23–27, 2022
The centerpiece of this week will be the Thanksgiving meal. But every day will be a celebration, with activities and time to reflect on our blessings.
Christmas Retreat
December 22–26, 2022
Unplug from this busy season and enjoy a festive, meaningful Christmas in West Cornwall as Advent alights into Christmas.
God and the Cosmos Retreat
August 12–14, 2022, with Joseph Rose and Summerlee Staten
Spend the weekend of the Perseids Meteor Shower watching the ocean of stars above West Cornwall and exploring time, space, and the universe through the dual lenses of science and the Abrahamic faiths of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
