Trans Sanctuary Weekend
With Kerr Mesner
June 13 - 15, 2025
This weekend is an opportunity for trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive people* to gather in community together. In these challenging times, we invite you into a space of sanctuary, refuge, and an honoring of our glorious gender diversity. With a creative spirit of playfulness, we’ll connect, rest, play, and explore what gives us joy, even in—especially in—difficult times. Stay tuned for some amazing trans/nonbinary/gender expansive artists who will be joining us.
In a spirit of radical inclusion and care, this retreat will be observing additional covid risk protocols. All attendees will be required to take a rapid covid test within 24 hours of attending, we will hold many activities outdoors, and we will be observing indoor masking. Please reach out to us if you have questions about these protocols.
We are actively fundraising for this event, with the hopes that finances do not have to be a barrier for anyone who wishes to attend. Click here if you would like to sponsor part or all of a scholarship for this retreat, and put “Trans Sanctuary” in the “gift message” field.
*This retreat is for transgender, nonbinary, and gender diverse people only. If you are one of our beloved cisgender allies and want to support this retreat, we invite you to contribute to the scholarship fund for this event.
Leader
Kerr Mesner (he/him) is a consultant, facilitator, and spiritual director, as well as a queer/transgender contemplative Christian, artist, and activist. Through his company Heart Story Consulting, he supports schools, higher ed institutions, and nonprofits, in creating spaces that honor diversity, with a particular focus on the work of celebrating gender diversity. He is trained with the Pacific Jubilee Program in Spiritual Direction, and is an ordained minister with Metropolitan Community Churches. In his spare time, he enjoys writing songs and performing in his local community theatre.
Learn more about Kerr Mesner