A pink weeping cherry tree surrounded by bright green grasses, blue sky and a circle of chairs.
  • Commuter – $215.00
  • Farmhouse Private Room – $475.00
  • Farmhouse Shared Room – $375.00

Date & Time Details: Check in is between 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm on Monday, April 28. The first event will be dinner at 6:00 pm on Monday night. The retreat will end after lunch on Wednesday, April 30 approximately 1:00 pm.

Contact: Lacey
laceyh@kirkridge.org

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Our First 100 Days: A Mostly Unstructured Retreat

With Nichola Torbett and Lacey Hunter

April 28 - 30, 2025

Calling all social justice movement folks, activists, disruptors, healers, organizers, visionaries, and artists! By April 30, we will be 100 days into this presidency. How are you doing? How is your heart? Your body?

Come away to the mountain for a (mostly) unstructured retreat to reflect–on your own or with others–on how you and we are moving in these times. We’ll have some time in circle to reflect together, if you like, but most of the time will be yours to do with as you please–journal, read, nap, hike, make art. Organizations are welcome to come together and have some time to strategize if they like.

Massage and optional spiritual direction will also be available.

Here at Kirkridge, the spring streams will be in full flow, the daffodils will be in bloom, and the creatures will be stirring. Come let the beauty of this place speak into your life and work.

Leaders

Nichola Torbett
Nichola Torbett is a white, queer, raised-working-class spiritual seeker, recovering addict, gospel preacher, racial justice podcaster, and nonviolent direct action trainer. She grew up in a sundown town in Ohio and had no consciousness of racism until she was nearly 25. She is grateful to the powerful BIPOC-led movements of Oakland and San Francisco, California, for her political education and to the friends of color who told her about herself and took a chance on her despite it all. She is committed to helping other white people unlearn internalized supremacy and become part of multiracial coalitions to end racism and…
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Lacey Hunter
Lacey (they/she) is a minister of formation, queer poet, and monastic-at-heart who is interested in how daily rhythms and practices of hospitality can open up new realms of simplicity and abundance, wonder and tenderness, and shape our lives for the work of Beloved-community building. Their belief in the possibilities of worlds beyond oppressive systems has been inspired by years of transformative organizing in Oakland, California, portals that emerge when queers dance together, encounters with redwood trees, the feeling that practices like communion can reshape our cells for liberation, and so much more. They have served as a community organizer and…
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