What happens during the retreat?

Nicole is a lover of the soul. Those who have worked with her know that her gifts are employed in pointing people towards their most honest, loving expression. A classically trained semanticist, she is a listener and unraveler of meaning and intention with the aim of getting people out of suffering. The weekend will include several group sessions with Nicole as well as time for participants to connect with nature and digest the content. The main focus for this weekend will be man/woman dynamics including the conditioned patterns we often find ourselves in as well as the path to liberation and power.

Two Ways to Attend

There are two tracks available: live in person or online via Zoom as an auditor. In person participants are able to dialogue directly with Nicole and discuss their individual topics of interest. Online participants will observe the sessions and absorb the teachings. The online experience will include its own facilitation, digestion, and clarification sessions with content experts. Only in person participants dialogue directly with Nicole. There are twenty spots for each track available.

FRIDAY

4-6 pm | Guest Arrival

6 pm | Dinner and welcome

7 pm | First Group Session with Nicole

9:30pm | Bedtime

SATURDAY

10am | Morning Informational Session

12pm | Lunch

1pm | Second Group Session with Nicole

3:30pm | Yoga

4:50pm | Optional Tibetan Buddhist practice

6pm | Dinner

SUNDAY

9:30am | Third Group Session with Nicole

11am | Pack up

12pm | Lunch and departure

Words from Nicole

I specialize in following it where not many dare to tread. I want to know life biblically, the way a man knows a woman (or other configurations of such). I want to know the water by getting wet. Theory, commandments, concepts leave me empty, and not the good kind of emptiness. My driving question is, “Is that true?” Is it wholly true? Where and how is it true? For whom is it true and why? Can it withstand the test of time? Is it true for me as a woman? The last one has taken me off many a beaten path. Givens are often no longer givens when I ask this question. The world turns upside down. My two guiding principles are first, the idea that “I’ve come only for this.” Whatever is presented before me is mine to puzzle, to play, to explore and, finally, to love.

Love leads me to my second guiding principle, how I explore, which is to ask, “Can I love this? Can I love even this?” Who is the “I” who is loving in this moment? What does love look like here? Does it require a peaceful approach, approval, power, some good, old-fashioned wrath? And then, what is “this?” I must leave who I believe myself to be to answer this question—to know and love what this is on its terms and not on mine. As a free woman I want all things to be free, liberated from any ideas I would impose on them. My work remains what it once and always was: to turn poison into medicine and make it available to those who want it.