August 25-27 | Starting at $500
KinMakers Retreat
What to Expect
A gentle pause from the pace of everyday life. Over three days and two nights, relax into a rhythm of reflection, creativity, nourishment, and connection.
There will be opportunities for shared exploration and dialogue balanced with ample space for reflection, wandering, journaling, and simply being in relationship with the land.
Together we will enjoy:
❋ Immersive Experiences
Gather in the forest, around the hearth, in the kitchen, and by the fire. Mornings will begin with optional EcoSomatic and restorative practices designed to help us slow down, reconnect with our senses, and deepen awareness of place.
❋ Relational Nourishment
Embrace foraging, preparation and feasting for six relational meals provided as gift from the land and lives of this place. These meals delight the palate while reconnecting us with the medicinal, ecological, and cultural abundance of the Northeast Woodlands
❋ Spirit Centered Design
Optional ceremonial and educational experiences with our Native kin. Facilitated Imagination sessions to explore new possibilities for wealth, value, community, and collective flourishing. (informed by the wisdom of Indigenous Commons)
❋ Leading Edge Solutions
Hobnob and imagine with systemic investing, regenerative and relational economy visionaries.
Exchanges will be rooted in conversation, inquiry, and shared discovery.
This pricing is available before July 15th, 2026. Choose your option below and follow the prompts to register.
Accommodations ~ Register Here
Woolman Hill is a Quaker Retreat Center in Deerfield, Massachusetts. This cherished and maintained property offers, rustic, clean and comfortable housing in a beautiful natural environment.
Each registration includes lodging, meals, and program offerings. We have intentionally minimized cost to ensure a rich array of participants. If you find yourself with abundance, please consider sponsoring a land or culture steward to offer their life-sustaining gifts into the fold.
Your choice of:
Solo Queen or King 5 available $1,250 (upcharge $500 for +1)
Shared Twin: (two twin beds) 4 available, $1,500
P/p in Shared Rooms or Bunk Rooms, 10 available, $500
P/p in Cabins (Shared spaces with charm, kitchens, woodstoves), $600
Bring your own tent and camp, pay only for the program, $300 p/p
Equity Sponsorship, we recommend a donation of $600 to sponsor a kin.
Note: if you are attending with a group that prefers to be together we can organize your accommodations to meet this need.
Reconnect your body and mind with the natural world as you escape the noise of everyday life.
Our Shared Intention
KinMakers recognize there is far more wisdom, resilience, abundance, and possibility available to us when we are in an energy of care and receiving of care.
This abundance is unveiled when our capacity to receive the gifts offered by our human and more-than-human kin, watersheds, forests and soils is deepened. When we overcome our fear of not-having/being-enough, which drives our collapse-oriented behaviors.
This gathering invites participants to move inward and engage outwardly at their own pace. We will explore what it means to live, lead, invest, and belong within systems that are designed to strengthen life.
This gathering is the fifth of its kind and the first in a longer KinMaker series beginning in the Connecticut River Valley and expanding across neighboring watersheds.
Together, these explorations will inform the development of a KinMaking and Systemic KinVesting development strategy—one rooted in the belief that healthy communities, healthy ecosystems, and healthy economies are not separate goals, but expressions of the same living system.
From Breakdown to Breakthrough
We are living through a time marked by ecological disruption, social disconnection declining trust, economic uncertainty, and growing polarization. Read more on the breakdown.
These patterns are signals that many of the assumptions and structures that drive modern systems need an upgrade. Rather than waiting for deeper breakdown, we believe this moment offers an opportunity to participate in breakthrough.
The path forward will not emerge from technology, policy, or capital alone. It will require us to elevate and learn from our own inner wisdom and those who still practice relationship, reciprocity, stewardship, care, and gift as value.
Together we can resurface and strengthen deeper wisdom, and love that was slowly forgotten in our own lineages and embrace practices that repair connection. Read More on Hidden Value of the Northeast Woodlands.
