Trans Sanctuary Weekend

With Kerr Mesner

June 13 - 15, 2025

The Nelson Lodge dining room with windows facing an orange, yellow, pink sunset.

Date and Time Details: Check in is between 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm on Friday, June 13th. The first event will be dinner at 6:00 pm on Friday evening. The retreat will end after lunch on Sunday, June 15th, approximately 1:00 pm.

Contact: Lacey Hunter
laceyh@kirkridge.org

  • Nelson Lodge Private Room – $475.00
  • Nelson Lodge Shared Room – $375.00

This weekend is an opportunity for trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive people* to gather in community together. In these challenging times, we invite you into a space of sanctuary, refuge, and an honoring of our glorious gender diversity. With a creative spirit of playfulness, we’ll connect, rest, play, and explore what gives us joy, even in—especially in—difficult times. Stay tuned for some amazing trans/nonbinary/gender expansive artists who will be joining us. 

In a spirit of radical inclusion and care, this retreat will be observing additional covid risk protocols. All attendees will be required to take a rapid covid test within 24 hours of attending, we will hold many activities outdoors, and we will be observing indoor masking. Please reach out to us if you have questions about these protocols.

We are actively fundraising for this event, with the hopes that finances do not have to be a barrier for anyone who wishes to attend. Click here if you would like to sponsor part or all of a scholarship for this retreat, and put “Trans Sanctuary” in the “gift message” field.

*This retreat is for transgender, nonbinary, and gender diverse people only. If you are one of our beloved cisgender allies and want to support this retreat, we invite you to contribute to the scholarship fund for this event.

About the Leader

A white man with short hair and glasses is grinning at the camera. He wears a blue suit in front of a forested background.

Kerr Mesner

Kerr Mesner (he/him) is a consultant, facilitator, and spiritual director, as well as a queer/transgender contemplative Christian, artist, and activist. Through his company Heart Story Consulting, he supports schools, higher ed institutions, and nonprofits, in creating spaces that honor diversity, with a particular focus on the work of celebrating gender diversity. He is trained with […]

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