As heart space teachers, Vision Quest Retreats are our ultimate offer for becoming deeply human and fully alive. The invitation is to awaken from our modern and often robot-type life, to respond rather than simply react, and to become full participants in our lives.
Studies of great leaders’ lives reveal that contemplation practices such as retreats and time in solitude and contemplation preceded the contributions and actions by which they transformed the world. This universal invitation is a knocking on the heart which, if unanswered, doesn’t go away. When answered, a hero’s journey awaits.
We accompany ready participants on single- to multiple-day, nature-based retreats. Content includes personal growth, team dynamics, and life strategy. The experience is a combination of deep personal work, fun, and adventure.
Retreats vary from weekends to multiple days and locations are determined by logistical requirements, availability, and seasonal weather conditions. Retreat pilgrimage applicants need to qualify with a reasonable level of fitness and health.
A retreat is marking a transition and the regeneration of one’s true self and wholeness grounded in ancient traditions and practised by Jesus, Buddha, the desert fathers, philosophers, and literati. The inward homecoming, finding meaning and passion and inhabiting ‘self’ is foundational to the courage required for the calling to be the difference they were born to be.
The knocking or call is often associated with life’s transitions, burning questions about the past and future, loss, meaning, direction, and purpose. Retreatants often mark a significant life event, celebrate a conclusion and the birth of something new, and heed to the longing of what life and God has installed for them. It is a journey unlike any other; first about being by moving inwards and upwards, followed by doing moving onwards and outwards. It is an experience of liberation and flow.
Ready participants are mature, willing to grow and push their existing comfort zones. Being open, authentic, and vulnerable, retreatants can expect increased awareness, clarity, purpose and confidence to be the person they were born to be. With a sense of connection, compassion, and love – being deeply human and fully alive – strategy, maps, and actions flow.
Do note that retreat applications are subject to a selection process. Minimum participant attendance is applicable.
Nature-based retreats:
- One-day retreat and circling.
- Weekend retreat (Friday 17:00 – to Sunday 12:00) camp and circling.
- Four-day retreat and circling, including a one-day solo by oneself in nature (Thursday 13:00 – Monday 14:00).
- Ten-day retreat and circling, including a four-day solo by oneself in nature (Friday 12:00 – Sunday 12:00).
Retreat pilgrimages:
- 1-6 days hiking trail, one or two-day solo by oneself in nature included.
- 1-6 days rowing trip (weather and water levels permitting), one or two-day included.