PROGRAMS in 2022

In the beginning of 2022, Covid caused programs to cancel or reschedule. Program leaders and participants began to return in March and April and it took until the summer before programs filled most every weekend.

Thanks to your support and our Restoration and Renewal Retreat participants, we were able to weather another wave of the pandemic. We are grateful for the new and returning program leaders who brought their communities and programs to the Whidbey Institute. In 2022, we welcomed several new programs, including:

New Seneca Village, a non-profit retreat space and network offering nature - based restorative residencies for cis, transfeminine and non-binary Black, Indigenous and women of color leaders working to advance justice with the goal to sustain their collective visioning for a just future.

Bethany Blysma created Cry Camp for therapists handling the impact of the pandemic

Caverly Morgan brought her Sinking The Mind Into the Heart Retreat that honors the various pathways that support us in remembering our true nature

We began our partnership with Innovative Learning and Living Institute (ILALI) and worked together for 9 months preparing for the first prototype for Wayfinders that launched in January 2023 Wayfinders is an eight week immersive residency where young adults in their 20’s from the same region live, learn, work, and play together Wayfinders provides participants the time, space, and skills to create better futures for themselves and others who work hard at their craft to bring healing and experiences to their participants and perhaps with the support of their cohort, this beautiful place and the sacred, program leaders and their participants leave more deeply connected to life and all its possibilities."

- Holly Harlan, Co-Director

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Bet Alef Annual Meditation Retreat

Black and Indigenous Organizing

Connection Works

Core Energetics

Cry Camp

Dare to Connect

Energy Detox & Immersion

Essential Yoga Therapy

Environmental Leadership Program

Greenings Congregation Collaborative

Innovative Learning and Living Institute (ILALI)

Intersectional Student Leaders Retreat

Kindling Words West

Leadership Embodiment

Lewis & Clark Think-Tank

Mind Body Hum

Mothers' Retreat

New Seneca Village

Pacific Integral’s Generating Transformative Change

Partners for Youth Empowerment (PYE)

Sacred Circle

Sacred Pause

Salish Sea Cooperative

Shelterwood Collective

Sinking The Mind Into The Heart

T'ai Chi Foundation Teacher Training

Tender || Wild Thriving Communities

Turning the Wheel

UW SMART Center

Whidbey Institute Restoration & Renewal Retreats

Whidbey Island Waldorf School programs

Working with Emotions: Meditation in Action

Young Women Empowered (Y-WE)