Retreats, Facilitation & Keynotes

Grounded in Mindfulness & Leadership

Are you in transition, facing questions of vocation or retirement, asking “what’s next”?

Do you want to create greater alignment between your inner values and your outer actions to live with integrity and authenticity?

Are you seeking rest, renewal, and spacious time to re-imagine your life and leadership?

Overview

We offer retreats, workshops, programs, and keynotes that focus on cura personalis, or care for the whole person, creating safe space for you to slow down and to nurture personal and professional leadership, authenticity, and integrity, grounded in mindfulness and reflective practices. Our offerings promote mindfulness and leadership through reflection individually and in small groups to gain insights, foster happiness and compassion, deepen awareness, and discover what is most meaningful to you, toward personal and societal transformation.

Focus on Mindful School Leadership

Using the highly-acclaimed book, The Mindful School Leader: Practices to Transform Your Leadership and School (Corwin, 2014), participants learn mindful leadership, including mindful communication, mindful awareness, social and emotional training, and ethical leadership grounded in mindfulness.

Services

Customized Workshops & Retreats

All retreats and workshops can be customized to fit your particular organization and location.

Mindfulness Training

Mindfulness coaching for leaders, organization, and teams
Mindfulness curriculum review and development for schools
Professional development training in mindfulness
Mindfulness retreats

What You Will Learn

Enhance your ability to respond rather than react, even under stress
Strengthen your capacity to understand and creatively engage complex situations and emotions
Boost focus and clarity
Foster positive mood, promoting greater well being, compassion, open-heartedness, and happiness
Nurture your physical, mental, and emotional resilience
Regain access to your own ‘inner wisdom’ to guide you to greater meaning and purpose
Learn to hold tension of personal and professional concerns in generative and life-giving ways
Rest, renew, and reconnect
Align your work in the world with your values
Seek clarity around issues of vocation, transition, life direction, and purpose

This is a transformative experience for me, due in large part to Valerie’s exceptional facilitation. Each session was carefully constructed to assist us in moving toward wholeness. I especially appreciated Valerie’s incorporating multiple perspectives (religious, cultural) for us to contemplate. Expertly paced for the introverts and the extroverts.

—Retreat participant

Valerie creates a truly safe, open, and welcoming space for people to do their own self-exploration. She strikes a challenging balance between leading too much and too little with a seeming ease that belies the considerable effort behind her facilitation. I am deeply grateful for my time with her.

—Amy Moffitt, PMP, CSPO, ITIL v.3, Manager, Deloitte

It is rare to find a place or space where you are able to truly share all of yourself – open, honestly, truthfully – without fear of judgment, or effect on your professional future. And at the same time, make deep connections with other people who understand the struggles that are present for young clergy in this work.

—Clergy retreat participant