Transforming Racism Drop-In Support Group
April 14, 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…
CANCELLED: Invitas Alumni Weekend
April 17 - 19, 2020
*** This retreat has been postponed. Invitas will notify participants when it is rescheduled.*** A weekend open to all alumni of the Invitas Foundations of Conversational Leadership program. This is an alumni-led retreat. Facilitation support will be offered by Jafer Patterson, Sue Fort White, David Cotson, and Gayle Karen Young Whyte.
Daylong Mindfulness Retreat
With Sarah Manchester
April 18, 2020
Storyhouse
Take time and gift yourself a day of mindfulness with Sarah Manchester! Learn why it is important to meditate Learn mindfulness meditation or enhance your existing practice Take meditative walks on exquisite trails Enjoy a delicious meal (lunch provided) Write, collage, draw, and contemplate (art materials provided) Spend time in reflection and discussion Come for one day or build on your practice and come to all three days. Each daylong retreat will focus on a specific mindfulness meditation. See the brief descriptions below: March 14th: Mindfulness of Body. What is mindfulness of Body? With an emphasis on the posture of meditation, we…
Cancelled: Training of Facilitators: a Personal Leadership seminar
With Tatyana Fertelmeyster and Marie Sheffield
April 20 - 26, 2020
This Training of Facilitators Seminar (ToF) is an opportunity to learn how to facilitate Personal Leadership (PL) learning events. This is intended for experienced designers and facilitators, and is a prerequisite for joining the PL Facilitator Program. This seminar creates a community for examining the dynamics of facilitating PL and making a world of difference. This seminar will help you navigate PL depths and respond with confidence to the complexities of facilitating. Hosted by Connecting Differences, LLC. Register here for meals and lodging only. To learn more or register, visit the program information page. The seminars consist of: One six-day…
Awake and Alive: Mindful Living with Cancer Retreat (POSTPONED)
With Erica Rayner-Horn and Wendy Halowski
April 20 - 24, 2020
We warmly invite anyone ever diagnosed with cancer to our annual 5-day rejuvenating, healing retreat. Join us for this unique transformative opportunity and discover how to navigate the emotional, psychological and spiritual challenges of illness with more ease and joy – and leave refreshed, inspired and renewed.
VORTEXT: a women’s writing salon
April 30 - May 3, 2020
Use this form for lodging registration only. To register for Vortext, visit this link. VORTEXT is an extraordinary weekend salon at the famed Whidbey Institute, led by renowned women writers. The program, now in its ninth year, gives women writers the opportunity to connect in diverse and powerful small-group workshops. Writers also enjoy dynamic keynotes and discussions about opportunities and challenges for women who write, as well as several open mics over the course of the weekend. Join us to share meals, conversation and community in a stunningly beautiful setting. Hedgebrook is a global community of women writers and people who…
POSTPONED: Warrior Monk Retreat
With Dan McKee
May 5 - 9, 2020
Whidbey Institute
This program has been postponed. To be notified when it is rescheduled, please add your name to the waitlist! Joining the waitlist does not obligate you to register. WHO AM I? WHERE AM I GOING? AND, WITH WHOM? This powerful experiential retreat is designed to bring about greater depth and integration of our spiritual, emotional, and psychological development. The work combines a deeply beautiful and mindful environment with powerful heart-opening emotional work, reflection, play, and community. Warrior Monk staff and participants create a transformative environment, blending intense experiential work with a full immersion in personal retreat space. This powerfully grounds…
Ourselves, Growing Older with Mary Holscher
May 7 - 9, 2020
We begin Thursday at 1 pm (after lunch) and end Saturday at 2:30 pm (after lunch). Our maximum size, including facilitators, is eleven. All sessions will be in the Farmhouse. We will have a spacious structure to continue our solitary and communal exploration of growing older. We’ll have time in silence with ourselves and with nature as means to deepen our reflections. We’ll read poems aloud, as we do every year. And we’ll share thoughts, memories and experiences, and, of course, write poems or short prose pieces to share or not share at each person’s discretion. We will share delicious, organic meals…
Daylong Mindfulness Retreat
With Sarah Manchester
May 9, 2020
Storyhouse
Take time and gift yourself a day of mindfulness with Sarah Manchester! Learn why it is important to meditate Learn mindfulness meditation or enhance your existing practice Take meditative walks on exquisite trails Enjoy a delicious meal (lunch provided) Write, collage, draw, and contemplate (art materials provided) Spend time in reflection and discussion Come for one day or build on your practice and come to all three days. Each daylong retreat will focus on a specific mindfulness meditation. See the brief descriptions below: March 14th: Mindfulness of Body. What is mindfulness of Body? With an emphasis on the posture of meditation, we…
Transforming Racism Drop-In Support Group
May 12, 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…
Divine Happiness, Creative Gift of the Soul
With Carolyn Berry and Micki O'Brien
May 15 - 17, 2020
Whidbey Institute
Happiness is not a frivolous feeling. It is a powerful state of being! Growing happiness is a movement to help heal the world. During this profound event, Divine Happiness: Creative Gift of the Soul, you will realize your connection to your happiness, how to expand it, and shine it out into the world to help activate a happier humanity. Based on her book, From Misery to Happiness, Carolyn Berry, LMFT The Go Shining Coach, and Micki O’Brien, M.A., Greatness Teacher/Coach, plus special guest, Dara Wagner, Reiki Master, will guide you on an experiential journey to your inner happiness. By weaving…
Next Stage Collaboration
With Rebecca Colwell
May 21 - 24, 2020
Welcome to the Next Stage Collaboration hosted at the Whidbey Institute. Whidbey Institute is a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit and a home for transformational learning. Whidbey Institute is a place-based learning center in a rural community on South Whidbey Island in Western Washington's Salish Sea. Our 106 acre conservation forest campus includes four miles of public trails, a stone labyrinth, and two educational gardens. During your stay at the Whidbey Institute, you'll be nourished with delicious, healthy, and sustainable food cooked with love by Chef Christyn Johnson and her team and housed in one of several woodland homes and cabins. As part of Whidbey…
Healing Our Collective Futures: A Gathering for Women of Color
With Victoria Santos, Haydeé Lavariega and Palmira Figueroa
May 28 - 31, 2020
Whidbey Institute
Women of color need spaces to come together, listen to each other deeply, rest and grow community. We are in a moment of feeling the collective future in us. This is a moment to go beyond self-care and create collective-care by coming together. We may feel overwhelmed by our work and the stresses of our lives. We can easily fill our time in ways that don’t take us into our wholeness, our power, and our joy. The question is: How are we making space for our own freedom? This retreat will be an intentional space in which we can explore…
Weekend of Recovery with MenHealing
With Jim Struve
June 5 - 8, 2020
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. Registration fees range from $900 for triple room occupancy to $1200 for single room occupancy. Scholarship grants are available up to maximum of 80% of the registration fees for triple and double room occupancy. Registration fee is all-inclusive of lodging, food, and tuition. More information about registration and scholarship applications are available at http://www.menhealing.org. The Weekend of Recovery begins with lunch at 12 noon on Friday and concludes at 3 p.m. on Sunday. All participants are…
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.
Finding Stillness in the Digital Age: A Digital Fast and Mindfulness Retreat
With Christina Malecka
June 12 - 14, 2020
Whidbey Institute
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 mindfulness to: LEARN how mindfulness is the opposite of distraction - and the key to a healthier relationship with technology CONNECT…
Igniting Change: Cultivating Leaders Ready to Face Wicked Complexity
With Anthony Back and Larisa Benson
June 14 - 16, 2020
Accelerating the development of internal leadership capacity necessary to catalyze social change for a more sustainable human and global future.
Realization Process Retreat
With Judith Blackstone
June 17 - 21, 2020
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 body and environment as a unity. Pervading your body, fundamental consciousness is the basis of your sense of existing as an…
Turning the Wheel: The Body Now!
June 21 - 27, 2020
Whidbey Institute
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 ● Hundreds of Ways to Spiral into “The Body Now” ● Plus Live Music…
Summer Garden Wisdom
With Kumudini Shoba
June 27, 2020
Westgarden
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 the abundant healing energy of summer! Kumudini Shoba, Ayurvedic practitioner, will help us explore an assortment of medicinal flowers that will…
Healing Ourselves with Flowers
With Mara Grey
June 28, 2020
Appletree Garden
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…