Rest, Reflect, Renew Retreat
A Weekend Retreat Exploring the Question, "WHO AM I?"
June 6 - 8, 2025
A Weekend for Rest of Your Life
We are grateful to the attendees and staff for creating such a beautiful space for our 2024 retreat and look forward to our next, from June 6-8, 2025.
RETREAT FOCUS
Forrest Bathing
Enneagram Workshops
Enneagram Workshops
A calming, 2.5 hour guided meditative experience that helps participants to re-center themselves via a connection with nature through the senses, rather than the intellect. This method has proven effective at reducing stress, fostering attention restoration, & delivering deep personal insights.
Enneagram Workshops
Enneagram Workshops
Enneagram Workshops
The Enneagram is an ancient symbol, said to explain the entire universe. For our purposes we will focus on the structures of the Enneagram that foster a better understanding of oneself, our core motivators and what habits and tendencies might be holding us back.
We'll offer a basic Enneagram Introductory workshop, as well as a more advanced course.
Labyrinth Work
Enneagram Workshops
Labyrinth Work
The labyrinth is found in ancient cultures all over the globe, and has been in use for at least 4,000 years. The labyrinth can be a mirror as to where we are in our lives. Everyone's experience is different. For some it is profound, for others a pleasant stroll. Many enter with a question, others leave with one. Walking the labyrinth is path to healing.
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Rest, Reflect, Renew Retreat
US$775.00
A weekend of self care dedicated to both a group and individual exploration of the question - Who Am I?
A WEEKEND OF EXPLORING THE QUESTION,"WHO AM I?"
WHAT'S INCLUDED
The retreat is being hosted at Saint Marguerite's Retreat House located at 82 West Main Street in Mendham, New Jersey.
REGISTRATION IS $775.00 PER PERSON
Incudes an all inclusive 2 night, 3 day weekend retreat including meals.and with a weekend full of forest bathing, Enneagram workshops and guided presence meditations.
ACCOMMODATIONS
All rooms are single occupancy, private bedroom with a sink and shared bathroom between two rooms. Double occupancy is available but on a limited basis.
RETREAT ITINERARY
The schedule will proved ample personal time for participants to explore the surrounding forest and grounds, or to find a quiet nook from which to consider the questions that will arise over the course of the weekend.
RICHARD COLLINS
Rich is a Certified Guide for the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs (ANFT), based in Morristown & Barnegat Light, New Jersey. His company, Friendly Territory, specializes in Nature & Forest Therapy walks, embodied meditation, and Labyrinth walks.
WHY I'M A GUIDE
“Having traveled to Japan for many years, I began to hear about Forest Bathing and the amazing effects it was having on people’s health through the deepening of a reciprocal relationship with the natural world. So, I began trying it on my regular visits there. After a particularly powerful experience on a recent visit, I thought to myself: 'This is something I can do for the rest of my life'. I returned home with the intention of starting a Forest Bathing practice here. To my delight I discovered that the ANFT was operating with an approach inspired by the Japanese concept but adapted for North America. I applied, was accepted, and took part in their intensive training program. I most appreciate their vision of what our job is as Guide: The Forest is the Therapist, the Guide holds the space for the healing to occur.”
-Richard Collins
WHAT HAPPENS ON A WALK
Forest Bathing, aka Nature & Forest Therapy, is a practice. It is open-ended; there is no prescription for what a person "should" experience, or what benefits they "should" receive. Instead, it is a practice of developing a deepening relationship of reciprocity, in which the natural world and the practitioner find a way to work together that supports the wholeness and wellness of each. In Nature & Forest Therapy, there is a clearly defined sequence of guided events that provides structure to the experience, while embracing the many opportunities for creativity and serendipity offered by nature and the individual inspiration of each guide.
RE-ESTABLISHING A DEEP CONNECTION TO NATURE
Nature & Forest Therapy is not a naturalist walk, rather, it is a slow meditative walk in nature that takes a holistic view to the physiological, mental, emotional, and psycho-spiritual benefits to be derived from an embodied contact with nature, and aims to engage humans through their senses, not their intellects. Nature & Forest Therapy can be viewed as an effective strategy to maintain and boost immune strength in human beings. The walk takes approximately 2.5 hours and requires no exceptional skill or physical exertion.
MEGAN KNIGHT
Megan is passionate about the enneagram, helping people create meaning out of suffering and bringing an awareness that we are inter-connected. She began her journey toward a deep understanding in the enneagram while working for a hospice on an inter-disciplinary team.
WHY I TEACH THE ENNEAGRAM
"When I first learned about the Enneagram it felt very overwhelming to me but yet so simple. The system broke down ego structures into an easy to follow guide for me to understand myself and others. The reality is that we all embody most "types" and it helps us navigate interpersonal relationships with compassion and a new perspective about why we are the way we are. The true gift of learning the Enneagram is to develop compassion and patience for yourself so you can detach from your auto-pilot mode and go back to the very essence in which you were created. You are not your personality; you are a complete, loving human being who is inter-connected with all things within universe."
-Megan Knight
ENNEAGRAM ESSENTIALS
HEART CENTERED INTELLIGENCE
HEART CENTERED INTELLIGENCE
HEART CENTERED INTELLIGENCE
Explore the centers of intelligence with the HEART. Types 2, 3 and 4 are centered in the feeling triad.
HEAD CENTERED INTELLIGENCE
HEART CENTERED INTELLIGENCE
HEART CENTERED INTELLIGENCE
Explore the centers of intelligence with the HEAD. Types 5, 6 and 7 are centered in the thinking triad.
GUT CENTERED INTELLIGENCE
HEART CENTERED INTELLIGENCE
GUT CENTERED INTELLIGENCE
Explore the centers of intelligence with the GUT. Types 8,9 and 1 are centered in the acting triad.
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”— Eckhart Tolle
— ECKHART TOLLE
