First Sunday of the Month
Ninety minutes on Zoom. A short teaching, a practice, small-group time. Open to anyone. You don't need to know anything coming in.
Come to the next one
A field for deep transformation. Retreats, monthly circles, and
gatherings where inner work, relational practice, culture building,
and systems change are woven together.
Consciousness, community, creativity, contribution.
C.Lab has language, maps, teachings, and practices. A growing community of fifty-some alumni. Six adult retreats held. A young women's retreat. Monthly Sunday circles. Gatherings forming in France, Quebec, and Northern California. We're no longer experimental.
Underneath the retreats and circles, the aim is simple enough to name. Come home to yourself. Live from your deeper being. Move from the suffering and fear of the separate self into the joy and fulfillment of the connected self.
From a two-dimensional, beige experience of reality into a life of call, depth, and real aliveness. Back into relationship with yourself, each other, the earth, and the sacred.
An integral path of waking up and waking down. The opposite of spiritual bypassing. The opposite of optimizing your way back to business as usual. We call what we're practicing business as unusual. You'll know if it's yours.
Four words we keep returning to: consciousness, community, creativity, contribution. They come online together, with the right people, in the right container.
If the old promises have stopped holding.
If the spiritual marketplace feels hollow, and the wellness aisle feels like a lie.
If something in you is pulling toward what's real.
Joanna Macy calls what we're collectively living through the Great Unraveling. We call the feeling it leaves in us sacred dissatisfaction. Either way, it's not the end of something. It's the beginning.
We aren't here to optimize you. We aren't going to help you perform a better life. We'd rather sit with you while you remember what you already know.
I've been to a lot of retreats. This is one of the few that kept working on me after I left. Six months on, the shifts are still here.
I expected a peak experience. I got something quieter and harder to explain, and much more useful. My marriage is different. My work is different. I'm different.
The Sunday circle is the easiest place to start. The retreat is the deepest. The local circles are where the work keeps living, in between. Come however you want. Stay however long is useful.
Ninety minutes on Zoom. A short teaching, a practice, small-group time. Open to anyone. You don't need to know anything coming in.
Come to the next oneA secluded beachfront retreat center on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Group of ten. Four weeks of preparation beforehand. Two weeks of integration support after. By application, with scholarships.
Start a conversationAlumni are hosting small circles in their towns. If one's forming near you, or you're imagining starting one, we'll help you find each other.
Tell us where you areA short note every few weeks. Reflections from retreats. Poems we're sitting with. Invitations to the next circle. No open-rate chasing, no sales funnels, no performance subject lines. It's closer to a letter than a newsletter.
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