The Pathways to Wholeness Retreat is a unique opportunity to step out of the day-to-day busyness and reconnect with what matters most. We will gather and practice in a beautiful 600-acre retreat center north of San Francisco, CA.
Our retreats blend nuanced leadership training with ample time for rest and rejuvenation. We cultivate skills for effectively navigating team dynamics. We nurture your access to presence, centeredness, and power in service to your organization, communities, and all life.
- Guided solo time, hiking, and subtle energy movement practices immersed in nature
- Practice energetic attunement, communication, and navigating polarity in group processes
- Work with key frameworks for understanding domains of human growth and development
- Integrate learnings through circlesinging and improv play
- Strengthen foundational skills for harnessing focus and concentration of the mind
Spencer is the founder and trainer of the Climate Wisdom Fellowship. He is a graduate of Pomona College's interdisciplinary Environmental Analysis program, a Certified Integral Facilitator, and works as an executive coach and team trainer within organizations.
Spencer has over a decade of study in transformational process work with master teachers Thomas Hubl & Diane Hamilton. He works with leaders and teams to heal and evolve through a process of somatic coaching, process facilitation, and meditation training. Before coaching, Spencer ran a design-build firm for 10 years building office interiors and civic parklets. For 5 years, he served as the Community Director at a coliving property management company supporting communities to grow from initial formation to self-organizing, independent communities.
Spencer has trained for 15 years in Hatha yoga, Buddhist meditation, the improv musical form the Art of Circlesinging, and adult developmental theory. Outside of work, Spencer can be found making music with friends, building something with his hands, or hiking the California wildlands with his family.
Samantha is an assistant for the Climate Wisdom Fellowship supporting the participant experience throughout. She is a writer, coach, and consultant based in the San Francisco Bay Area, passionate about the nexus of business, biomimicry, mindfulness, and emotional intelligence.
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Retreat Cost:
$1,200
(Scholarships on retreat cost available as needed.)
Food:
$350 (required)
Lodging:
$100 - $330/night depending on room selection
Whispertree is 600-acre retreat center located in Boonville, CA in the beautiful Anderson Valley outside of the hustle bustle of the Bay Area. It is a little over an hour from the regional airport in Santa Rosa and 2.5 hrs from SFO. Most people will fly into SFO or Oakland airports rent a car in small groups and head up together. Once you sign up we will put you in touch with other participants to join a shared car.
Participants will be joining from various fields of impact or healing work. Some are Fellows from current or prior Climate Wisdom Fellowship cohorts. There will also be folks attending who are very interested in deepening personal growth and navigating collective intelligence but who work in other fields. All will have some degree of focus on positive impact in the world whether through consulting, technology, finance, design, etc. Regardless, we will work with our own personal process and group process as it emerges in its unique form and take time for reflection, recharging, and collective practice.
We will have a first session 6-8pm on Thursday the 18th. Friday and Saturday will have sessions 9:30-11:30am, 2-4pm, and 6-8pm. Outside of that will be meals and free time to connect with land and other participants. There is Wifi if work needs to be done in-between sessions. Sunday will have a closing session from 9-11am and then folks will be heading back to airports.
Yes, we make our retreats accessible to various price ranges. We are not able to provide scholarship on food & lodging or offer travel stipend, but can offer scholarship on the retreat cost itself. Please select scholarship request on the application form with the requested amount.
