Retreat

“The times are urgent; we must slow down.” –Bayo Akomolafe Are you an organizer or activist in need of rest and rejuvenation?  Kirkridge Retreat Center is launching Berrigan’s Folly Organizer and Activist Respite program. We are offering no-cost week-long private retreats for movement organizers and activists in Daniel Berrigan’s Folly Cottage at Kirkridge Retreat Center.  Located […]

We live in times that are as complicated as they are alarming. Many who identify as Christian interpret the moment in rigid binaries: to oppose the strong leader and his national vision is, in their view, to be anti-Christian—effectively anti-American—and morally suspect. In such a climate, truths and facts offer less help than we would […]

It is required that all participants be fully vaccinated. The long-term and often painful process of recovery from sexual abuse has profound effects on relationships. Partners and survivors experience a parallel process of understanding the nature of abuse, its effects on the survivor and the couple, and the requirements of healing. Lack of information and […]

“It’s not pots we are making, it’s ourselves.” –MC Richards Come to the mountain as life insists and springs from earth and branch. Take some clay in your hands and sit quietly with the grief, loss or trauma in your life.  Sit with the stubborn, tenacious hope as well.  The meditative process of working with clay […]

What are you practicing? This retreat is for anyone who knows in their bones that another world is possible beyond militarized borders, policing, and prisons, even if we can’t quite perceive the details from here, and who wants to be practicing  toward that world. We’ll be exploring ways we can be doing that even right […]

“Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the water” calls the prophet Isaiah. “Water is life,” say the indigenous water protectors, and also, they remind us, water is gravely endangered. “Out of your innermost being will flow rivers of living water,” promises Jesus. In these chaotic and wrenching times, those of us who long for […]

Join us for Undoing Conquest: Inviting a Season of Origins, a retreat grounded in the work of healing from centuries of Christian violence, resisting the rise of Christian nationalism, and reclaiming a liberating, justice-centered faith. Together, we’ll explore the themes in Kate Common’s book, Undoing Conquest, reflecting on how the church has used stories of […]

Given our current national climate, this retreat is one of a two part series being offered at Kirkridge this year, with an additional retreat Nov. 13-15. You are welcome to sign up for one or both of these retreats. This weekend is an opportunity for trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive people* to gather in community together. […]

Award-winning science fiction and speculative fiction writer Octavia Estelle Butler said, "There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns." Butler's stories, grounded in human vulnerability and human agency, anticipated the current chaos of our time. During this retreat, we will explore what Butler's words can teach us about identity, survival, community, […]

The Spiritual Roots of Protest retreat at Kirkridge gathers justice and peace activists from the Christian traditions to dive deep into the complexity and contradictions held in the question of nonviolence in our time. What is revolutionary gospel nonviolence now in this conjunction of fascism and white Christian nationalism? In the tradition of the 1964 […]

Indigenous wisdom may be our best hope for an improved state of being, for ourselves, each other, and the planet. In this retreat, participants will be introduced to two grieving traditions: that of the Lenape way, and that of Celtic traditions in Ireland and highlands of Scotland. How can we pour our grief as nourishment […]

A Walking Awake pilgrimage to the Isle of Iona, Scotland with Columcille Megalith Park and Kirkridge Retreat Center (registration is open to all). After experiencing a wonderfully memorable shared pilgrimage to Iona in 2024, Columcille Megalith Park, Kirkridge Retreat Center and Walking Awake are excited to announce that we've decided to offer another in August, 2026! If you are […]

The leaders are asking that all participants be fully vaccinated. Double and limited single rooms are available. This weekend workshop is for non-offending adult male survivors of sexual child abuse, rape, physical violence, emotional abuse and/or neglect. Our goal is to offer a safe, encouraging environment of healing. The weekend will provide a variety of […]

This retreat will cover the basics of foraging, how to utilize collected materials, and provide recipes. The intention is to help you integrate foraging into your every day life and build a relationship with the plants, fungi, and land around you.

What was it like to come out in the 1970s and 80s? What is it like to come out now? What stories would you like to tell about coming into your full gender expression, whether as trans, butch, femme, androgynous, nonbinary, agender, or something equally glorious? What other stories are important to your lesbian or […]

The Clearing Healing Music Retreat is a three-day gathering on Friday, September 18 - Sunday, September 20th, 2026 for Black queer and trans people who carry the deep wound of a world that denies our belovedness. Here, we return to the river that has always healed us—our music, our breath, our way of seeing against […]

“Everyone knows everything sings and dies. But could it be, too, everything dies and sings….” — Galway Kinnell We live in a culture that often turns its face away from the one certainty we all share. Yet, when we lean into the mystery of the "Great Mystery," we often find that our lives become more […]

“As common as the fear of not belonging is, the reality is we can’t help but belong to each other. in our interdependent world, there is nothing outside of belonging. A redwood tree never questions its sense of belonging. It wouldn’t even think to ask such a question — its body knows there’s no such […]

Join us October 2-4, 2026 at a beautiful and secure rural retreat center that is committed to participant safety for a cross-training festival for abolitionist grassroots organizations and formations engaged in mapping community ecosystems of collective care and community defense! Please register here by July 31 to let us know you are coming. Thanks!

The land where we rest, grieve, and celebrate is the only thing we have in common with those around us. Our bodies are created of and are part of the land. When we die, we fold back into the land’s cycle of life. Our breath, the sea water that is beneath our skin, and the […]

For decades, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Questioning men have been gathering at Kirkridge to build community, sing, laugh, tell stories, remember the departed, share our strength and wisdom, and soak in the beauty of the mountain. This annual retreat is for GBTQ men across the generations who are on a spiritual path. We welcome seekers, […]

*Please note: if you are attending the "Going Deeper" series with Denise prior to this retreat, you can reserve your room for those two nights by "adding additional nights" in the Price section of your registration.  If you feel a deep connection to Nature, have an interest in Celtic Spirituality, and a longing to be […]

Japanese kintsugi involves taking something that has been broken, specifically pottery, and practicing repair in ways that highlight or accentuate the site of brokenness, by highlighting and accentuating the seams where the pottery was damaged. My art practice and writing pushes kintsugi processes further, taking older artworks I have created, hymns, and scriptures to create […]

Given our current national climate, this retreat is one of a two part series being offered at Kirkridge this year, with an additional retreat June 5-7. You are welcome to sign up for one, two, or all three of these workshops. This weekend is an opportunity for trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive people* to gather in […]

On these cold December nights, we will have a fire burning and hot chocolate on the stove. Bring your knitting needles, quilting squares, paint brushes, wrapping paper, or whittling knife and gather in the warmth and stillness of the season. This retreat will have no facilitator or agenda. There will be delicious food, good company, […]