Balance between reliable structure and shared purpose with spaciousness, mindfulness, and group-responsive flow—offering thoughtfully scheduled excursions alongside opportunities for rest, reflection, meditation, and free time at the Uganda Buddhist Center.

Embedded facilitated prompts, dialogues, and mini-workshops exploring systemic investing, ecological institutions, and partnership-based economic models. Connect the lived practice to your own philanthropic, investment, and community economy-building practices back home.

Our facilitors work at the forefront of systemic investing, regenerative development, and community-centered economic design.

Suzanne Bowles, founder of Cattail Strategy, brings more than 20 years of experience at the intersection of Western philanthropy, Indigenous community economy models, and systems change practice, and has coordinated and facilitated dozens of transformative site-based learning journeys.

Regen Network’s (NAME) whose work spans ecosystem science, blockchain architecture, ecological claims infrastructure, natural capital asset design, and the development of next-generation systems for regenerative finance and stewardship. They will help us see the technical and practice layers of the projects we visit, and apply them to our own scenarios.

A supportive and reflective learning environment grounded in care, dignity, and shared humanity.

Bhante is a ordained monk, counselor and teacher with decades of experience guiding people from diverse backgrounds in mindfulness, emotional resilience, and healing-centered practice. His work includes a PhD focused on Indigenous approaches to trauma healing and community wellbeing.

Suzanne’s experience in multicultural collaboration has a particular focus on helping people of Western and European lineage reconnect with our own ancestral wisdom traditions, and embodied practices of abundance and repair. Her approach integrates somatic awareness, nature-based reflection, narrative practice, and trauma-informed group process.

Co-liberatory lens: we believe that every person carries insight, responsibility, and gifts needed for collective healing and transition. We center principles and values while making space for the complexity of identity, history, grief, power, and transformation.

The intention is not perfection, but the cultivation of a relational field capable of deeper trust, maturity, and collective learning.

Your choice of standard and clean lodging or luxury ecolodge experience. Day and evening meals offered with the support of the award winning chef at Uganda Buddhist Center, the community farm and some of the most delicious cultural food experiences imaginable.