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Retreats

Retreats provide an escape from everyday life
to rejuvenate the spirit.

Navigating Cycles of Change Retreat

May 30th - June 1st 

Hosted by the Creative Center for Wellbeing

Life is a series of seasons - expanding and contracting, rising and falling, holding on and letting go. Just as nature shifts through cycles, so too do we. Change is the constant current running beneath our lives, shaping who we are and who we are becoming. Some transitions feel like gentle tides, while others arrive as turbulent waves, leaving us searching for clarity and steadiness.

 

Navigating Cycles of Change is a retreat designed to guide you through the inevitable transitions of life with intention, creativity, and community. Over the course of our time together, you will explore the evolution of transition and change by shedding what no longer serves, tapping into your intuition to guide you toward what is yet to come, using creativity to align you with what is next, and stepping deeper into your own inner power as you embrace a new season in your life. 

 

We will do this together through four powerful workshops:

  • The Art of Grief-Tending: Honor the loss that is inherently present in the continuous flow of transition and change. Through grief-tending practices of meditation, writing, and ritual you will name, bless, and release to create the space needed to step into what is yet to come. 

  • Emerging Intuition - Building Trust and Connection through Inner Wisdom: Tap into your innate intuition and strengthen your ability to trust yourself. Through guided activities, reflective practices and a shared conversation about personal intuition stories, you will learn how to cultivate deeper connection by listening to your inner wisdom and embracing your authentic self.

  • Illuminating Your Inner Artist: Engage with creativity as a transformative force in cultivating your authentic self.  Through the use of mythology, art-making, and meditation you will explore the unique traits of our human spirit to uncover our hidden gifts.

  • The Alchemy of Joy - Embodied Rituals to Empower & TransformStep into your innate power and strength through embodied practices that cultivate joy, resilience, and transformation. 

 

Together, we will create a space for deep reflection and renewal, supporting one another as we navigate our own inner seasons of change. This retreat invites you to pause, listen, and engage with the cycles of your life in a way that feels both sacred and expansive.

Join us for this immersive and transformative gathering as we embrace the wisdom found in transition and lean into the creative life force that is always shaping us.

Are you ready to step into the next season of your becoming?

Collaborators

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Andrea Gerrard

Integrative Grief Guide

Founder of Befriending Grief

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Melissa Ollila

Intuitive Medium and Guide

Founder of Readings With Melissa

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Melissa Dessart

Artist and Guide

Founder of Illuminating Your Inner Artist

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Laura
Libby

Creative Healer and Empowerment Guide

Founder of Blooming Third Age

Details

Location: Arc Retreat Center in Stanchfield MN

Located just 50 min north of the Twin Cities. ARC features a beautiful and cozy three-story A-frame lodge on 90 acres of pristine woodlands surrounded by a majestic white pine forest. You’ll relax, reflect, unite, and return inspired and renewed.

 

What's Included

  • 2-Nights’ accommodation in a single or double occupancy room

  • 5 Nourishing, vegetarian meals 

  • Water, tea, and coffee served throughout the day

  • 4 unique workshops curated to explore the cycles of change through creativity and community

  • Cozy fireside chats

  • Labyrinth walks for reflection and meditation

  • Time & space to relax and renew by yourself or with others

  • Access to the entire ARC Retreat Campus and the 90-acre woodlands

Itinerary

Friday

  • 2-2:30 Check-in

  • 3:00-5:00 Workshop 1: The Art of Grief-tending

  • 5:30-6:30 Dinner

  • 7:00-9:00 Fireside Workshop 2: Emerging Intuition: Building Trust and Connection through Inner Wisdom

Saturday

  • 7:30-8:00 Morning meditation

  • 8:30-9:30 Breakfast

  • 10:00-12:00 Workshop 3: Illuminating Your Inner Artist

  • 12:30-1:30 Lunch

  • 2:00-4:00 Workshop 4: The Alchemy of Joy: Embodied Rituals to Empower & Transform

  • 5:30-6:30 Dinner

  • 7:00-9:00 Fireside songs and storytelling

 

Sunday

  • 8:00-9:00 Breakfast

  • 9:00-10:00 Closing circle

Retreat Registration

For requests to pay in 2 installments

(50% to book and 50% by May 1st)

Contact Melissa

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