Deep Intimacy Couples Retreat [FULL]
This retreat is fully booked. To inquire about being added to the waiting list, please reach out to the facilitator using the contact information below.
This retreat is for couples who hope to:
Teacher Residencies (Preschool through 5th Grade)
Ten self-guided one-week residencies for teachers of preschool through fifth grade are being sponsored by the Nancy M. and Douglas M. Yeager Family Foundation, in partnership with GilChrist Retreat Center. 2022 is the 18th year that the teacher residencies have been offered.
Sacrality Practice: Play at Work
Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person—mind and body, intelligence and creativity, spontaneity and intuition. —Viola Spolin
Do you shy away from “play” as something frivolous--not to be part of your work life? In the video below, Bill Vendley, our senior advisor for world religions, reminds us of the importance of play. This is from someone who dedicated his life's work to resolving conflicts!
Sacrality Practice: Bringing SacredLove to What We Do
It’s easy to forget how impactful the daily, ordinary moments of our lives can be. Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, Zen teacher, psychotherapist, and president of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care shares what a door person in his building said that moved and reminded him of the impact our most ordinary activities have on others.
StoryCorps Conversations Celebrate Longtime Fetzer Staff
From those who tend Fetzer's physical workplace, library, and mission, we learn of the importance of love, humor, and humility in the work we do together. We found these short clips from some of our longest-serving staff to be delightful and hope you do too! Many thanks to our friends at StoryCorps for this special opportunity.
Sacrality Practice: Through Dying, We Learn to Live
Dying, a universal experience is a topic we often avoid. However, it holds profound lessons for our personal growth and understanding of life. In the video below, Carla Fernandez, co-founder of The Dinner Party, shares her insights on the importance of embracing this topic and the invaluable lessons it can offer us.
Sacrality Practice: Community as a Verb
How might our interactions transform when we see community not as a noun, but as a verb?
For this session of sacrality practice, we look to Scherto Gill, a research fellow at the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace, to help us reframe our cultural assumption of community, moving it from something outside ourselves to an active process we live into. Watch Scherto in the video below!
Join us as we experiment with the practice of “we-ness” that Scherto speaks of. How might you live as if community is an action, a verb?
StoryCorps Conversations Celebrate Longtime Fetzer Staff
In partnership with our friends at StoryCorps, we're sharing highlights from a series of interviews featuring our longest-serving Fetzer staff members! Get to know our wonderful colleagues Dena O'Flynn, Fred Colbert, Rob Lehman, Bruce Carlson, Tim Jones, and Kathy Cavanaugh by listening in on these charming conversations.
Co-creating Our Story: A Hybrid Participatory Case Approach to Evaluating and Accelerating Organizational Change
At Fetzer, our "Community of Freedom" is at the heart of all that we do. For three hours each week, our full staff stops work and either together or individually cultivates their spiritual path—however they define it. We explore personal spiritual interests, share new ideas and work, build connections with teammates and partners, and learn about topics from emotional intelligence and mindfulness to spiritual parenting. We believe that providing the space to develop such a community will help us become a more effective organization by creating a culture of love and authenticity.
Creating Virtual Sacred Space
With much of our lives taking place online, the Fetzer Institute is exploring ways to foster meaningful connection and deep inner work in virtual and hybrid spaces. Our inquiry is driven by an interest in the field of virtual spirituality—how do we and others create a sense of energy, connection, and spirit to do soul-level work amid our many screens and devices? While we continue to explore and nurture what is emerging, we offer this guide for facilitators and conveners of online gatherings.