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This piece is part of a series offered by the GilChrist team during the month of October about practices of healing, in honor of GilChrist’s 25th anniversary on October 15. The Tao of Puck the Goat What a special fellow you are So unaware and useless it seems. But I know better- You are wise […]

This piece is part of a series offered by the GilChrist team during the month of October about practices of healing, in honor of GilChrist’s 25th anniversary on October 15. When I was a toddler, my hair was very slow to grow, but my mind was always racing with all of the things I was […]

Thanks to Suzanne Frank, a guest of GilChrist Retreat Center, who wrote to us, “I wanted to share this recent publication of my travel writing that appears in www.nowheremag.com. The peace and tranquility of your center contributed greatly to this and a manuscript I’m completing.” Find more information about the celebration of the 25th anniversary of […]

Thank you to Karin Larsen for sharing this collection of poems as we look back on the past 25 years at GilChrist Retreat Center, and as we look forward to the future. Find more information about the celebration of the 25th anniversary of GilChrist here.   Like the Hanged Man In the tarot deck – We need […]

After four months, GilChrist Retreat Center is open once again. In March, as we closed the door behind us with uncertainty and sadness, we didn’t know when we would return. We wiped the calendar—full of group bookings and personal retreat reservations—clean. The cabins, usually filled back-to-back with guests, would sit empty. But we committed ourselves to hold this situation with open hands and […]

This note, from Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma, head caretaker at GilChrist (our public retreat center) and her staff, provides both an update about the closure of the center as a result of the pandemic and a reminder of the “unexpected gifts” it offers. Seven years ago, we had to shut down for a period of time while Enbridge […]