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 […]

Join us in the mountains for a weekend of silence. Kirkridge staff will offer some brief communal ritual spaces, but most of the time will be yours for whatever you need. There will be time for prayer, wondering and wandering, reading and writing, rest and sleep, silent connection and nourishing food. Let the land hold […]

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. Come as you […]

*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 […]

Please apply by October 1st. Applications will be received by facilitators. Confirmed participants will receive a separate email with a Kirkridge registration form and payment link. What We Are Offering: Ancestral Healing is the practice of connecting with and tending to your ancestors of lineage to bring balance, insight, and healing across generations. We come […]

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, […]

Join us for a cozy weekend in the mountains to focus on your writing life. Trust that there will be roaring fires, snowy trails, hot chocolate, candlelight, good food, and lots of quiet. We will offer some brief prompts and rituals throughout the days to nudge the imagination and then offer spacious hours for your […]

From facilitator Robin Gow: The first zine I ever held was at The Wooden Shoe, an anarchist bookstore in Philadelphia. I was drawn to the shelf of zines for their uniqueness and grungy covers. I was nineteen and the zine I picked up was about the hanky code, a code for signaling queer desires, and I remember […]

Word and Wind: A Yearlong Writing Cohort is an opportunity to breathe life into the stories and imaginations you carry and call them by name. Writing is often sacred, solitary work. Through this cohort, we invite you to nourish that work by holding it with land and community. This year will offer participants writing time […]

Severe poverty and deepening divides of income, war and violence, racism and other forms of hatred and systemic discrimination, a ravaged creation:  All of these cry out for healing – but what is the healing we need? How does this moment of societal crisis and vulnerability force us to ask deeper questions about who we […]

How do people of faith think theologically and act ethically in the face of rising Artificial Intelligence and its threat to humanity and Earth? What are the dimensions of that threat in... Social control? Humanoid Robots? Weaponry? Extinction? As developments accelerate more and more out of human control, Pope Leo’s ‘Magnifica humanitas’ offers one answer […]

Working-class people are natural storytellers. You can often find us gathered on front porches, sitting around a kitchen table, or circled up around a campfire swapping stories. Stories are a way we hold onto our history, pass along knowledge, preserve traditions, and entertain ourselves. Often our instincts for writing come directly from our experience of […]

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 […]

Inhabiting Our Elderhood: Forgive Everything, Speak the Unspeakable is a weekend retreat for elders who seek the grace to “forgive everyone everything,” and the courage to “speak the unspeakable.” Elderhood offers a unique opportunity to face and heal what has been previously untended, and offer this work as a blessing for others. Learning to do […]

In his poem “Not to Make Loss Beautiful,” Gregory Orr writes of making loss the place not only where beauty begins but where the heart truly understands the nature of its journey. Yet in a culture where so many turn to strategies of denial and avoidance to cope with grief, holding our pain as private […]

In a time when the dominant Christian narrative is devastatingly upholding fascism and zionism, we gather to remember a different story. We claim a Christianity that is rooted in a radical theology of liberation. Join us in community for the places where word and world mingle. There will be time to bible study, workshops, movement […]

Put your phone away and join us for a semi structured retreat connecting to yourself through nature and community. If you ever find yourself feeling drained simply from being a human in today’s world, this retreat is for the nervous system that lives in your animal body. We will spend time in the Kirkridge garden, […]

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 […]

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 […]

You are invited into a spacious weekend of centering in our bodies, grounding in Love, and connecting to our deepest selves, the Spirit, and the earth. Our bodies often hold our emotions, fears, doubts, desires, and listening to our bodies will help us to discover places we are stuck, and places that long for freedom, […]

The first gay and lesbian Christian retreat was held at Kirkridge in 1977. This is no small milestone and a legacy worth celebrating every day. Join us to celebrate this history, share stories, dance and sing, walk the mountain, and imagine the work ahead. So many of you have been a part of this history […]

It’s not pots we are making, it’s ourselves. –M.C. Richards Take some clay in your hands and listen to your life.  Clay invites our bodies to be more deeply grounded in Earth.  The way it moves and holds shape awakens creativity and invites both play and contemplation. We’ll listen to the wind in the leaves, […]

Consider three historical moments: Germany in the 30’s, the USA in the 70’s, and “America” amidst rising fascism 2027. Consider three voices: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s, William Stringfellow’s, and even your own in community. This retreat will set those voices in conversation, toward discerning speech and action in this present time. It will also ask, Can the […]

Our world is facing an unprecedented crisis as our social systems fray, wealth disparity peaks, and ecological collapse looms. Meeting this moment requires a radical transformation that extends beyond laws and policy; it demands a fundamental shift in our hearts, values, and relationships. Fierce Vulnerability aims to cultivate this shift by building a movement rooted […]

*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 […]

Advent is a holy time of waiting and preparation. This year, gather with us around the fire as we sink into the dark as the nights grow longer. Let us give space to honor the stories that rise in our dreams. Let us tend to the silence and embrace solitude. Join us for an Advent […]