Rekindle Retreat™

Helping professionals spend their days holding space for others. Listening deeply, offering guidance, and supporting people through moments of challenge and growth. Yet the meaningful work of caring for others can also be demanding, often leaving little time to pause, reflect, and reconnect with the deeper purpose that first drew us to this path.

This two-day retreat, set in the natural beauty of Manning Park, offers helping professionals an opportunity to step away from the pace of their work and reconnect with the inner sources that sustain meaningful practice. Surrounded by forest and mountain landscapes, participants are invited to slow down, breathe, and rediscover a sense of presence and balance.

The retreat gently weaves together forest immersion, expressive arts exploration, and guided reflective dialogue. Time in nature supports restoration and quiet reflection, while creative experiences offer space to explore insight and renewal—no artistic experience required. Guided conversations provide an opportunity to reflect on the deeper questions that arise in helping professions, including how to sustain compassion, creativity, and authenticity over time.

Rather than focusing on new techniques or professional skills, this retreat offers something equally important: space to pause and reconnect with the foundations of meaningful helping work.

Those who hold space for others also need places where they themselves can be supported, restored, and reoriented to the deeper sources of their work.