Events & Programs

EmpowR Events, Trainings & Educational Programs

EmpowR Transformation events and programs vary depending on the season and how we can be most responsive to the needs of the people, communities, and organizations we serve.  

In person events and retreats are held at Grandmother Cherry Sanctuary in Plainfield, Vermont. Online programs are offered via Zoom.

You can also cocreate a customized retreat or work with us to offer one of our successfully piloted educational program for your team, group, or organization.

Current Trainings & Professional Development Retreats:

Conflict Evolution Retreat
Conflict Evolution: Collaborative Teamwork Retreat

A Professional Development Training Retreat – Dive deep into the relationship between dominant culture and conflict avoidance and how we evolve the fear of conflict into a generative practice essential for healthy communities and workplaces.

Friday, December 6, 2024
9:30 am -4:30 pm
Grandmother Cherry Sanctuary, Plainfield, Vermont
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Facilitation Training Course
Belonging Together: A Facilitation Training Course for Space Holders

Experiential unlearning and relearning course to evolve facilitation skills for equitable communication, inclusion of diverse perspectives and voices, and building cultural conditions for belonging. Embody and integrate circle facilitation practices for dialogue where power is shared, whole selves are valued, and listening is centered in the heart.

6 weeks, Thursdays 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Begins January 9
Online via Zoom
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Current Event Offerings:

Check out our brand new Wheel of the Year Ceremony Series!
Wheel of the Year Ceremony Series

Celebrate living in rhythm with the cycles of Nature & Pagan Earth-based, Animist Spirituality in Community

8 Ceremonies throughout the year to celebrate Pagan Holidays

Piloted Educational Programs

Successfully implemented and piloted educational programs for organizations to work with us to offer to groups, teams, and communities.

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“I recommend the Belonging Together Facilitation Course for anyone engaged in facilitation, space holding, community building, and change making – there is such a need for each of us to truly evaluate and be accountable for how facilitation practices can and do perpetuate the systems we are actively trying to change. Belonging Together provided me with tools, prompts, and opportunities to step deeper into my own facilitation, experiment with conscious, intentional, heart-led facilitation techniques in a safe space, and confront my own shadows so that I may show up more authentically and fully in this work.”

~ Belonging Together Facilitation Course participant

“I haven’t felt this calm and settled in my body in 6 years. I felt like I belonged here the minute I stepped on this land and this experience has given me a renewed sense of faith that we can create a better world. This is the feeling of community I have been looking for.”

~ Summer Solstice Ceremony participant

“The program wasn’t what I expected and also completely blew me away. I think I finally understand what it means to need community in anti-racist work. I appreciated the focus on embodiment and the evolving structure SO much—how powerful. I literally felt in my body what it was like to not seek approval and take accountability for my words and my thoughts and decide for myself what I thought about them. And I felt it get “easier” to do that over the course of the program. I’m still processing the whole thing but I know that was a really really powerful experience and I’m better for it.”

~ Accountability in Anti-Racism program participant

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Nature-based Retreats

Cocreate a customized retreat at Grandmother Cherry Sanctuary for your group, team community, or organization.

Seating for an EmpowR event dialogue circle at Grandmother Cherry Sanctuary in Plainfield, Vermont

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