


Rooting in Practice
Spiritual traditions often speak of walking a path, and practices are how we walk that path. Practice can be a source of nourishment and a refuge in difficult times. Through practice, we grow and transform ourselves and the world around us. We’ll be collectively exploring our curiosity, questions, and wisdom around practice.

Summer Solstice Labyrinth Walk
Join a playful outdoor event celebrating the longest day of the year with this ancient practice to reflect and center. It’s our fifth annual Summer Solstice Labyrinth Walk, this year on the beach! This family-friendly event features 5+ labyrinths, a station for crafting your own finger labyrinth to take home, and a solstice bonfire.

Autumn Equinox Retreat
Gather to honor the Autumn Equinox and the change of the seasons with a half-day retreat. Somatic movement, reflection, conversation, and deepening together in our relationships with nature and the seasonal cycles.

Hallowtide Salmon Run at Carkeek
Join us on Hallowtide to observe one of the great rituals of our piece of the planet: the return of salmon to their birth streams to spawn the next generation as their lives come to an end. Let’s gather on this ancient sacred day to reflect on the beauty, joy, grief, and challenges of cycles of death and new life in the world around us and in our own life.

Spring Equinox Retreat: Rooting in Community (In person and Zoom)
Gather to honor Spring Equinox and the change of the seasons with a half-day retreat.
Somatic movement, reflection, conversation, and connecting with nature and seasonal cycles.

Solid as a Rock (Hybrid)
We'll be playfully and reflectively learning from stones and connecting with the earth element.

Online Gathering: Poems and Pondering
We'll be appreciating this moment in time together. The winter holidays are over, and we're beginning a new year. What is our relationship with this moment in time, this winter season, the year 2025, this period of our lives, this day, this moment?

Winter Solstice Celebration (in person and online)
Let’s welcome the season of darkness and share light around a beach bonfire (or online). We’ll celebrate the Winter Solstice with community and connection to nature. We’ll watch the sun set on the longest night of the year and reflect on the earth’s position and the cycles of our natural world. We’ll be led in simple solstice songs (singing or listening are equal choices) and gentle contemplative practice and share reflection.

Online Gathering: Moving Into the Unknown
Abby will lead us in exploring liminal space: being in the in-between and unknown. We are facing so many transitions and so much unknown. We will share what supports us in times of being in between and in the unknown. What are things we take with us, and what do we hope to find? What is it like to hold uncertainty?

Hallowtide Salmon Run at Carkeek
Join us on Hallowtide to observe one of the great rituals of our piece of the planet: the return of salmon to their birth streams to spawn the next generation as their lives come to an end. Let’s gather on this ancient sacred day to reflect on the beauty, joy, grief, and challenges of cycles of death and new life in the world around us and in our own life.

Pause and Rest – Zoom Gathering
Join us on Zoom for community, meditation, somatics, and reflection. Lily will lead us in mindful movement and share practical ways to weave pauses and rest into our lives. We’ll explore mental, physical, and spiritual forms of rest, and the interplay of them all.

Sensory Bottle Making
We'll gather to make sensory bottles while we reflect on grounding into our senses

Autumn Equinox Retreat
Gather to honor the Autumn Equinox and the change of the seasons with a half-day retreat. Somatic movement, reflection, conversation, and deepening together in our relationships with nature and the seasonal cycles.

Harvest – Zoom Gathering
Join us on Zoom for community, meditation, somatics, and reflection.

Awe Walk
Join us for a light community potluck, conversation, and reflection. If you’d like, bring finger food to share.

Land Acknowledgements as Sacred Practice – Zoom Gathering
Join us on Zoom for community, meditation, somatics, and reflection.

Land Acknowledgements as Sacred Practice – Big Tree Gathering
Join us for a light community potluck, conversation, and reflection. If you’d like, bring finger food to share.

In(ter)dependence Gathering on Zoom
Join us on Zoom for community, meditation, somatics, and reflection.

Summer Solstice Labyrinth Walk
Join a playful outdoor event celebrating the longest day of the year with this ancient practice to reflect and center. It’s our fifth annual Summer Solstice Labyrinth Walk, this year on the beach! This family-friendly event features 5+ labyrinths, a station for crafting your own finger labyrinth to take home, and a solstice bonfire.

Community Gathering on Zoom
Join us on Zoom for community, meditation, somatics, and reflection.

Reverence – Big Tree Gathering
Join us for a light community potluck, conversation, and reflection. If you’d like, bring finger food to share.

Bodymind Rhythms – Zoom Gathering
Join us on Zoom for community, meditation, somatics, and reflection.

Our Bodyminds – Big Tree Gathering
Join us for a light community potluck, conversation, and reflection. If you’d like, bring finger food to share.

Beaver Pond Gathering
Join us for a light community potluck, conversation, and reflection. If you’d like, bring finger food to share.

Spring Equinox Retreat: Beginnings
Gather to honor Spring Equinox and the change of the seasons with a half-day retreat.
Somatic movement, reflection, conversation, and connecting with nature and seasonal cycles.

Community Gathering
For the rainy winter season we will be gathering in the homes of community members rather than outdoors. Join us for a light community potluck, conversation, and reflection. If you’d like, bring finger food to share.

Community Gathering
For the rainy winter season we will be gathering in the homes of community members rather than outdoors. Join us for a light community potluck, conversation, and reflection. If you’d like, bring finger food to share.

Community Gathering
For the rainy winter season we will be gathering in the homes of community members rather than outdoors. Join us for a light community potluck, conversation, and reflection. If you’d like, bring finger food to share.

Community Gathering
For the rainy winter season we will be gathering in the homes of community members rather than outdoors. Join us for a light community potluck, conversation, and reflection. If you’d like, bring finger food to share.
Bless, Release, & Welcome
Join the community in a poignant and powerful moment: transition of leadership to a new generation. Beth Amsbary (she/her), our founding Convener will bless and release the community. We will bless and release her. Then we will formally welcome Kiran Frank (they/them), our new Convener. And share sacred snacks.

Winter Solstice Celebration
Welcome the season of darkness and release in this virtual event! We'll reflect on the earth's position during Winter Solstice, then stretch our imaginations and intentions to release into the gifts of this longest night.
The ONLINE event will take place over ZOOM, with a link sent as you RSVP.

Big Tree Gathering for December
Join us for a informal community potluck in a little-known corner of the Arboretum. We provide coffee. You bring snacks, whatever you’d like to sit on, and yourself!

Harvest Gathering
Let’s gather to celebrate the end of the harvest season. Drawing on Buddhist practices for cultivating our good qualities and overcoming difficult habits, and on Gathering Ground’s theme this year of Compost and Cultivate, we will reflect on the year behind us. What seeds have we been planting, and what have we been harvesting?

Queering Your Journey Writing Workshop (Online)
We'll explore ourselves and the people in our lives as heroes. We'll name archetypes and mythology in the journeys we see around us. And we'll do it all through a lens of queerness, in a space that welcomes those who are queer, those who are not, and those who are still figuring it out. Writers of all levels welcome.