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As the pressures of leadership build, a new environment disrupts our routines and creates space for us to decompress, reflect, and examine our leadership journey. The retreat locations have been intentionally chosen to allow for these purposes to flourish. Our gatherings are not conferences. Rather, they are intentionally designed to be intimate gatherings of 8-10 leaders for a multi day experience while allowing time for emotional, physical and spiritual rest and renewal.
Leadership Teams
Developing a high performing team is a goal for all leaders. Taking a team to a new environment and away from the routines of work will nourish your leaders, enrich connection and enhance how well your team works together. We will offer tools and a framework that will impact collaboration by helping teams apply their differentiators to improve performance, gain an understanding of individual and team strengths, motivators, and expectations. You will be helping your team build on important elements of a team: Purpose, Clarity and Psychological Safety
Cross Vocational Leaders Gathering
Being with people who share new ideas and approaches often inspires creativity, innovation and vision. We take a vocationally diverse group of 4-6 proven leaders in ministry, nonprofit and business to visit a selected site which has demonstrated creative and innovative leadership. Participants will be immersed in a mutual learning experience with fellow travelers; challenging existing paradigms, offering inspiration and renewing their own leadership journey.
Leader Retreat
Leaders often focus on the next strategy, training or “golden nugget” in their quest to increase their leadership effectiveness. What is typically overlooked or placed on a shelf for a later time is the attention a leader gives to nourishing their own leadership by paying attention to their emotional, spiritual and physical wellbeing. A leadership retreat will offer leaders a place of quiet refreshment that will address these foundational issues so they can better serve their families, communities, and organizations.
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About the Retreats
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Dr Bill Lodewyk, President of Elim Christian Services
Paul Gordon, Executive Director Terra Nova Network
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North America-Based Gatherings
The Abbey of the Genesee
The Abbey of the Genesee offers a beautiful and serene atmosphere for renewal. Located in the Genesee River Valley in upstate New York participants will be invited to participate in the daily rhythms of the Trappist monks; experiencing times of liturgical prayer, Lectio Divina and times of silence and reflection. These rhythms called renowned theologian, Henri Nouwen, to spend time at the Abbey and share his reflections in his book, The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery
The natural beauty and silence of the verdant Genesee River Valley will serve as an ideal location to be refreshed and renewed. Participants will share the Bethany Home enjoying meals, liturgy and reflection together in a place of peace.
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Global Gatherings
THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO
“Pilgrimage echoes and embodies the experience of the journey of faith. There is movement, vulnerability, challenges, companionship, prayer, divine presence, and a destination.”
Cultivate’s mission is to renew leaders, and we will be facilitating this through a trip to walk a portion of the Camino de Santiago. For over a millennium, this path has served as a pilgrimage for those seeking spiritual, emotional, and physical renewal.
The Camino de Santiago, or in English, The Way of St. James, is a network of pilgrimages leading to the cathedral of Santiago in Northwest Spain, where tradition holds that the remains of the apostle are buried. We will follow the Portuguese Coastal Route, beginning our 78 mile journey in the historic town of Porto, and then travel to the beautiful seaside village of Baiona where our ongoing walking starts in earnest. Our pilgrimage will take us through the towns of Baiona, Portugal, and then into Spain with stops in Vigo, Arcade, Pontevedra, Caldas, Padrón, and culminating at the Cathedral of Santiago.
Throughout the journey, we will incorporate key elements of Cultivate: times of prayer, silence, camaraderie, and, of course, the Psalms led by Dr. Kevin Adams, a Camino veteran. Cultivate Renewal, in partnership with Camino Ways, will manage your lodging, meals, and logistics.
Dates: May 25 – June 3, 2026.