Core Practices
Mindfulness & Presence
Cultivate present-moment awareness and inner peace through guided meditation practices.
Traditionally, meditation was considered an extremely advanced skill taught as the highest yoga. It's unusual for beginners to begin with silent meditation practice. We have found that this combination of practices allows one to surrender more readily into presence and silent practice without so much fighting and effort. This is a practice towards waking up to the fundamental awareness that can hold pleasant, painful, and all life conditions with a basic okayness.
Relational Work & Play
Deepen your capacity for connection and understanding through powerful interpersonal practices.
Often, our interactions with others follow ingrained patterns that undermine our happiness and intimacy. The practices we share develop authenticity and radical aliveness, reshaping our social patterns to foster relationships that truly nurture our lives. Becoming aware of our own and others’ present-moment experience, and the depth of our own longing and desire, we can form relationships that are beautiful, nourishing, and profound.
Unfoldment
Learn about and practice Unfoldment, a powerful alternative to constant self-improvement and self-optimization.
What if nothing is missing? What if you are already whole and have exactly what it takes to meet life’s challenges? Unfoldment is the natural process that enables us to grow and flourish as all living organisms do when the right conditions are met. Rather than resisting what's happening, Unfoldment is about turning toward your present moment experience with curiosity and kindness. As you open to what arises, you naturally unfold and unlock inner resources to meet life’s beauty and challenges with what’s needed.
Embodiment
It's easy to think transformation is occurring without truly reaching the depth of experience where transformational change can happen. Embodiment is crucial for deep change, and including it in the curriculum allows us to harness the power of psychological and interpersonal practices within the physical realm, where profound shifts become possible. While talking can lead us to profound realizations, our bodies communicate volumes – often conveying truths we may not consciously be aware of. By tuning into our bodies, we can learn about ourselves. Allowing ourselves to express freely through the body loosens the mind's grip on patterns..
Talks & Discussion
Change requires a new perspective. We need an orientation that frees our minds to embrace a new reality. Sharing our view of the world helps us share a cosmology through which we can engage in collective sensemaking. Understanding how these practices fit together, fit into our lives, and fit into the world allows us to navigate our engagement with discernment.
Meet Your Facilitators
Our experienced facilitators will lead you through a unique retreat experience unlike any other encompassing a variety of modalities. Our team spans decades of experience and training.
Xuramitra Peter Park
Xūramitra Peter Park is a Relateful facilitator, mindfulness teacher, and Unfolding coach. He was the Executive Director and spiritual teacher at the Monastic Academy where he trained and taught for seven years. He began teaching relational practices in 2015. He has completed several rounds of Circling Europe’s 6-month SAS facilitator program and also was a TA for Relateful’s LevelUP immersion programs. He has completed Aletheia Level 1 training and is currently training in Level 2. His superpower is helping people feel safe and included.
Sofia-Jeanne Caring
Sofia-Jeanne Caring has trained in three core spiritual practices: meditation, circling, and embodied relational cultivation. She began training in meditation with Keith Porteous in 2011, continuing with Soryu Forall in 2017, which was foundational for her orientation to relational practice. While it was challenging, but not impossible, to find peace on a cushion, the way people related to each seemed hopelessly entangled with messy dynamics and a lack of meaningful connection. Fueled by this motivation, she began practicing Circling in 2016, certified through Circling Europe’s SAS, and has facilitated hundreds of individual sessions as well as numerous week-long retreats. In 2018 she met her primary teacher Kraye Grymonnt, with whom she has trained extensively in embodied relational cultivation ever since.
Sofia-Jeanne currently teaches the interweaving of these practices, and she is passionate about transforming our social fabric into collective liberatory praxis. Alongside her spiritual and psychological development work, she holds an MA in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior at UNC Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Daniel Thorson
Daniel splits his time between making a living as a coach, hosting a podcast, and working on a social art project called the Church of the Intimate Web. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, network building, reading obscure philosophical texts, and falling in love with birds. Sometimes he posts on Twitter.
Sarah-Marie Hopf
Sarah-Marie Hopf is a developmental executive and leadership coach, Aletheia Unfoldment practitioner, and mindfulness teacher. She enjoys coaching values-aligned founders, leaders, changemakers, and spiritual practitioners and designing and facilitating workshops and experiences/retreats for individuals, teams, and communities. A German/American, she’s been grateful for the opportunity to work with individuals and organizations globally. To her work, she brings experience at the intersections of leadership and personal development, entrepreneurship and startups, organizational and systems change, and research and design thinking.
Sarah-Marie has completed Aletheia’s Advanced Coaching Program Levels 1-3 and is currently completing Level 4 and Aletheia’s group unfoldment program. She’s an ICF-certified integral coach through New Ventures West and a certified mindfulness meditation teacher through Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s MMTCP program. A long-time meditation practitioner, she’s spent 150+ days on intensive silent retreat.
Pricing
Scholarship Program
$1,600
Room & Board Included
Full Program Workshops
Recommended
Standard Program
$2,000
Room & Board Included
Full Program Workshops
Premium Program
$4,000
Room & Board Included
Full Program Workshops
Eight 1on1s with Facilitators
- After the intensive, we'll schedule up to eight calls with a facilitator to help integrate and take forward the insights and changes from the retreat into your everyday life.
Our Accomodations
