Programs
Monthly Meditation Gathering
With Caverly Morgan
Open Dates
Whidbey Institute
Monthly Meditation Gatherings with Caverly Morgan will focus on direct experiences of who we truly are, integrating practice into our everyday lives, and embodying realization. Caverly combines meditation with a facilitated group discussion that is interactive and personal. Gatherings are designed both for newcomers and those who would like to deepen their practice.
Generating Transformative Change
Open Dates
Whidbey Institute
Pacific Integral's GTC is a 9 month program with 4 retreats at the Whidbey Institute, intersession work, individual and group prototypes and individual coaching. GTC graduates are extraordinary professionals of all ages, from diverse backgrounds and from many parts of the world. They share a common desire.... to transform themselves, their organizations, communities and our human consciousness, motivated by a vision of a more beautiful, equitable and sustainable future for all. The next cohort will begin October 2024!
A New Cosmic Story
With Brian Thomas Swimme, Geneen Marie Haugen, Bill Plotkin, Marilyn Strong, Monica DeRaspe-Bolles and Clara Lindstrom
Open Dates
Saturday, July 6, 2024 - Join us for this inaugural, annual celebration of the New Cosmic Story with evolutionary cosmologists, Earth mystics, and soulcraft guides to the mysteries of nature and psyche. We’ll share insights, conversation, and experiential offerings that have roots in the wisdom of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Berry, and Carl Jung. Weaving together mythopoetics, science, spirituality, and embodied practices, this event will further animate the creativity we all need to “reinvent the human at the species level,” as Thomas Berry advocated.
Introduction to Permaculture Design
With Penny Livingston
May 8, 2024
Whidbey Institute
Join Penny Livingston for an introduction to Permaculture Design. She will speak about the upcoming certification course at the Whidbey Institute, taking place June 20 - July 4, 2024. This comprehensive program is designed to empower individuals with the knowledge and skills need to design and create regenerative, resilient systems
Fierce Compassion Women's Retreat
With Carolyn McCarthy and Karen Schwisow
May 24 - 26, 2024
Whidbey Institute
Now more than ever... We need compassion: for ourselves, for each other, for the world. Compassion can be tender, like offering kindness. But it can also be fierce, like holding healthy boundaries, saying no, and standing up for ourselves and others. Developing this essential quality takes time, intention, and practice — especially given that females […]
Climate Anxiety and Spiritual Resilience
With Suzanne Crawford O'Brien
May 28, 2024
Whidbey Institute
When recently asked about climate change, conservationist Terry Tempest Williams responded: “Do we have the courage to understand that this is not just an ecological crisis or a political crisis or even an economic crisis? Because it is all of those things, but at its heart, it is a spiritual crisis.” While many of us […]
2024 Touch Drawing Gathering
With Deborah Koff-Chapin
June 9 - 15, 2024
A six-day intensive that provides a deep immersion in the process of Touch Drawing. Facilitated by its originator Deborah Koff-Chapin, this event is oriented to people who feel called to share the process.
Rewilding Summer Retreat: Recovering the Wisdom Within the Wild
With Mary DeJong
June 15, 2024
You are warmly invited to this in-person day retreat that will companion your connection to a wonder-filled and wild world. Grounded in spiritual ecology and eco-theology, Rewilding Retreats offer a sacred space for reconnecting to a sacramental and animist worldview; guided practices that recover ways of "reading" the land as sacred scripture; and re-membering ourselves to the wider community of creation.
We will be deepening into the wisdom that is inherently within the season of Summer and how we can engage the numinosity that is embedded throughout the wheel of the year and the calendar of the Earth.
Come join us at this wild edge of faith!
Permaculture Design Certification Course
With Penny Livingston, Michael Pilarski, Pamela SeaMonster, Douglas Bullock, Dave Boehnlein, Brian Kerkvliet and Cassandra Posey
June 20 - July 4, 2024
Whidbey Institute
Embark on a transformative journey into regenerative living with the Permaculture Design Certification Course offered at the Whidbey Institute in Clinton Washington. This comprehensive program is designed to empower individuals with the knowledge and skills need to design and create regenerative, resilient systems.
The Act of Being - A Summer Retreat
With Caverly Morgan and Zakiya Rhodes
July 22 - 28, 2024
Whidbey Institute
This retreat is about the act of being (a phrase that has been used to encompass many knowings and philosophies, from the Catholic philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas to Mullā Ṣadrā, an Islamic mystic, philosopher, and theologian). It’s about knowing a happiness you can’t explain because you have no reason to point to. The joy of pure being. Of knowing who you are, resting in presence, and acting in the world on behalf of this deep knowing.
Rest and Refuge: Restore Your Spirit
With Michelle Cassandra Johnson and Rashid Hughes
August 8 - 12, 2024
Join Michelle C. Johnson and Rashid Hughes for an opportunity for to practice deep rest, restore our spirits, and remember our points and places of refuge. Engage in mindfulness and yogic practices such as meditation, yoga nidra, pranayama, and self-reflection to move into a place of peace, wakefulness, and harmony.
Rewilding Fall Retreat: Recovering the Wisdom Within the Wild
With Mary DeJong
September 21, 2024
You are warmly invited to this in-person day retreat that will companion your connection to a wonder-filled and wild world. Grounded in spiritual ecology and eco-theology, Rewilding Retreats offer a sacred space for reconnecting to a sacramental and animist worldview; guided practices that recover ways of "reading" the land as sacred scripture; and re-membering ourselves to the wider community of creation.
We will be deepening into the wisdom that is inherently within the season of Fall and how we can engage the numinosity that is embedded throughout the wheel of the year and the calendar of the Earth.
Come join us at this wild edge of faith!