Touching the Earth: A Homestead Retreat for Young Adults

Event Overview

Touching the Earth is a three-week outdoor retreat for young adults to cultivate self-awareness and deepen relationships with others and the living earth.  Now in its fifth year, this retreat offers a community of 14 participants (ages 18-25) an opportunity to pause, engage in a sustained period of contemplation in a community of peers and mentors, and reflect on values and callings.

A diverse and seasoned faculty guides the exploration of the Buddhist concept of “interbeing” through ecology, Buddhist philosophy, and theories of organizing and change-making.  The Work That Reconnects spiral is woven into the curriculum, with 4 particular afternoons devoted to group practices and rituals from the WTR repertoire.  Readings, interactive seminars, and songs support the exploration of each station of the spiral in 5-day blocks.  The two faculty who lead the WTR practices, Rupert Marques and Kirstin Edelglass, trained with Joanna Macy over the course of many years.

Applications are accepted until March 15, 2026.  (This may be extended if spaces remain.)

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