NOW ONLINE: Weekend of Recovery with MenHealing
With Jim Struve
June 5 - 8, 2020
*** Program has been moved to fully online! *** This 3-day program provides a healing retreat for adult males, 18 and older, who have experienced sexual victimization during childhood and/or as an adult. More information about registration and scholarship applications are available at http://www.menhealing.org.
Transforming Racism Drop-In Support Group
June 9, 2020
Storyhouse
A recurring drop-in support group to strengthen awareness about racism, including the more subtle microaggressions that often go unnoticed. Awareness, reflection, and compassion will be at the heart of the group. Facilitated by a person of color, this group will offer a safe space for participants to give voice to their questions and observations of racism in their daily lives. The group will also offer a brave space for self-reflection on how racism might show up in oneself and ways to shape change towards a culture of anti-racism. Diana Sandoval is a Whidbey Island resident and a long time facilitator…
Powers of Leadership (4 of 4)
June 11 - 13, 2020
Whidbey Institute
The Powers of Leadership retreat series convenes a diverse cohort of people across strategic fields to gain perspective on the currents of change moving in these times.
CANCELLED: Finding Stillness in the Digital Age: A Digital Fast and Mindfulness Retreat
With Christina Malecka
June 12 - 14, 2020
Whidbey Institute
** Retreat has been postponed due to COVID-19. Subscribe to the Whidbey Institute Newsletter to hear when it is rescheduled.** Looking for a one-of-a kind mindfulness retreat? Imagine yourself totally unplugged from technology and held in community at the Whidbey Institute for a weekend of meditation, rest, community building, self-discovery and empowerment. Put away your phone and deeply engage with yourself and others. Rediscover play to reclaim the joy and excitement of childhood. Leave with tools and practices to help you find tech/life balance in the real world. Treat yourself to this weekend of digital detox, deep self-care and…
CANCELLED: Realization Process Retreat
With Judith Blackstone
June 17 - 21, 2020
** Retreat has been postponed due to COVID-19. Subscribe to the Whidbey Institute Newsletter to hear when it is rescheduled.** Judith will teach all aspects of the Realization Process: nondual meditation, embodiment, relational attunement and the release of trauma-based constrictions from the body. This is a chance to do deep, intensive practice of the Realization Process in this beautiful natural setting. The Realization Process is a direct path to embodied nondual awakening. It is a series of powerful but gentle, precise attunement practices for realizing your own nature as fundamental consciousness– an undivided expanse of luminous transparency, pervading your…
CANCELLED Turning the Wheel: The Body Now!
June 21 - 27, 2020
Whidbey Institute
This program has been cancelled or postponed due to COVID-19. To learn more, visit https://www.turningthewheel.org. Integrate a Revolutionary Model for Personal and Social Change: the “Path of the Heart”. Come and co-create an adventure with us. Step forward into your own awakening. Step into creating the world we can imagine from our hearts! This six day immersion offers an exciting combination of: ● Joyful Movement Games in Community ● Embodied Leadership Tools ● Inspired Communication ● Theater Improvisation Explorations ● Community Singing and Sounding ● Guided Pathways to your Inner Landscape ● Reconnecting with Nature ● Ritual and Sacred Art ● The Power of Appreciations ● Body-based Journeys for Delving Deeper…
CANCELLED: Summer Garden Wisdom
With Kumudini Shoba
June 27, 2020
Westgarden
** Retreat has been postponed due to COVID-19. Subscribe to the Whidbey Institute Newsletter to hear when it is rescheduled.** Join us in the sweet, woodsy Westgarden at the Whidbey Institute to learn about supporting health with Ayurveda practioner Kumudini Shoba. This class will explore using nature to support cleansing the body, with a focus on using plants and herbs from the garden and surrounding forest. This is the second class in a series of three that will run through fall of 2020. While the spring class looked at the cleansing properties of nettles, this class will focus on…
CANCELLED: Healing Ourselves with Flowers
With Mara Grey
June 28, 2020
Appletree Garden
** Retreat has been postponed due to COVID-19. Subscribe to the Whidbey Institute Newsletter to hear when it is rescheduled.** Join us from noon to 2 pm in the Appletree Garden for this class with Master Gardener Mara Grey. Inviting nature’s support into our lives by making and using flower essences. All supplies will be provided! The class will include learning, writing, and product-making, in the beautiful Appletree Garden at the peak of early summer's beauty. Tickets are $40 or $25 for Whidbey Institute volunteers.
Speaking Music to the Land
With Mara Grey
August 23, 2020
Appletree Garden
Join us from 3 pm to 5 pm in the Appletree Garden. Speaking directly to someone has power. Nature responds—often in subtle, almost imperceptible ways—when we speak in music. Join Mara Grey, Celtic harpist, for a time of stories, personal experiences, lore from traditional cultures, and free time to wander and find your own ways to speak to the land. Instruments are welcome, but not necessary. Humming, singing, even softly chanted words are just fine . Tickets are $40 or $25 for Whidbey Institute volunteers.
Autumn Garden Wisdom
With Kumudini Shoba
September 19, 2020
Westgarden
Join us in the sweet, woodsy Westgarden for this final class in a series of three 2020 Ayurvedic herbal workshops at the Whidbey Institute with Kumudini Shoba. New registrations are welcome. When we wake to a chill in the air and see the setting sun a bit earlier in the evening, we know Autumn is upon us. At this time, we transition from the expansive energy of summer into the quiet world of fall and winter. Plants echo this process as their leaves and fruit fall away and they concentrate their energy into their core system, roots. This makes Autumn…
Igniting Change: Cultivating Leaders Ready to Face Wicked Complexity
With Anthony Back and Larisa Benson
September 20 - 21, 2020
Accelerating the development of internal leadership capacity necessary to catalyze social change for a more sustainable human and global future.