Restoring the Heart of the Healer

Restoring the Heart of the Healer 

Come and rest. 

Be held in community by those who understand. 

Let your heart be nurtured, and know you are not alone. 

A three day retreat in the mountains for healthcare providers searching for respite from the system that erodes the soul’s call. 

This retreat is for healthcare providers of all kinds – if you are an: MD, DO, PA, NP, RN, LPN, PhD, PsyD, LCSW, counselor, EMT, CNA, or any other caregiver working within the medical system. 

This three day experiential journey will include transformational and restorative practices and rituals held by practitioners committed to nurturing other providers and building community around this movement. This is an answered call to support those finding themselves compressed more than ever within the constraints of the mainstream medical system. 

Though the system itself may be crumbling, the soul’s call to heal is an inherent and unchangeable right that cannot be taken. This retreat is a reclamation of that call to come home to yourself, and to build community with others heeding the same call.

This time together will create a space for you to:

• Reconnect with your heart that brought you into your caring profession in the first place

• Process and experience release of the healthcare systems’ impact on your wellbeing – spiritually, physically, and emotionally

• Reclaim fragmented parts of your soul 

• Reconnect with the care you provide from a space of wholeness

• Build community with others on this journey 

• Cultivate ongoing and integrated connection with yourself and community to restore the heart of the healer

What would the empowered reclamation of your heart as a healer mean for you, and for those you care for? What would it mean for the paradigm shift we are experiencing in healthcare today?

Retreat begins Friday October 3rd at 1 pm and ends Sunday October 5th at 5 pm.

This retreat is located at the Gleaning’s Foundation in Robbinsville, NC

Address: 167 Lodge Ln, Robbinsville, NC 28771

Facilitators:

Hannah Fowler RN

Hannah is one of the Founding Directors and Director of Education for the Center for Conscious Living & Dying in Asheville, NC, and producer of The Last Ecstatic Days film. Hannah is a nurse, end of life doula, healer, and educator who brings conscious living and dying practices to organizations and communities globally. She is dedicated to warmly illuminating the shadow hidden within systems, communities, and individuals. In doing so, she creates spaces that allow for true connection and an integrated way of living and relating from wholeness. 

Greg Lathrop RN

Greg is registered as RN-Retired in North Carolina. At age 15, he experienced what he thought would be the moment of his immediate death. The transpersonal, mystical state-of-being he experienced transformed his perspective of consciousness and guided his choices regarding his “work” in this life. Accordingly, his more than 40 years’ nursing experience has included serving within various healthcare realms: acute care, critical care, emergency care, air-medical transport, hospice, and integrative healthcare. Coinciding with his nursing practice, he was invited into a Traditional indigenous Medicine apprenticeship, following his Teacher Will Rockingbear for more than 13 years until Rockingbear's crossing. He is now recognized as a Medicine Elder in the Way of traditional healing. An embodiment of these teachings he received from his Teacher is..."I would prefer that you don't just take care of me. I would rather that you Love me."

Melissa Seligman

Before Melissa was an Army wife, a disabled veteran wife, or even a mother, she was a teacher. Melissa has a BA in English and a Master’s in Education with an additional certification in Special Education.

While living within the Army world, Melissa published two books and launched Her War, Her Voice with the intent of finding ways to better understand her own and her family’s journey through grief and trauma, and to bring awareness to the mental health needs of military people. Fifteen years of grief work and retreat leadership led Melissa to better understand trauma, tragic death, suicide, and what it means to hold space for grief and mourning in intense situations. After Melissa’s husband was medically retired, she also had a front-row seat to what it means to be a caregiver. Melissa is a Sacred Passage Doula, a Conscious Dying Educator, a Fire Keeper at CCLD, and a traumatic grief companion. Melissa has two children: a daughter, and a son. She is a writer, an advocate, and someone who is passionate about suicide awareness, trauma-informed care, custom, grief support, and ritual.

Christen Mullane PhD

Christen is a licensed clinical psychologist, writer, and human who cares about making healthcare healing. She has practiced independently as a psychologist since 2012, in diverse healthcare settings around the United States. Prior to starting her own practice, she worked in rural primary care clinics in Oregon, Tennessee and California, inner city hospitals in Pennsylvania, nursing homes and sprawling healthcare systems in Texas, and alongside physicians and nurses in palliative care, cancer clinics, and emergency rooms. Along the way she became a certified meditation teacher through the Lab of Meditation in Vancouver, Canada, where her training emphasized social justice, cultural humility and responsiveness, and deep acknowledgement of the historical roots of meditation as a healing practice. In 2025, she released her first book: Medical Stress and Trauma, which offers a trauma-informed and mindfulness-based pathway to healing for those who find themselves struggling or suffering in healthcare. She believes strongly in advocacy work and culture creation that is both ethical and mindful.

Wanda Barnes RN

Wanda is a facilitator, mentor, and steward at the Center for Conscious Living & Dying, as well as a hospice nurse and wound care nurse of 18 years.

FAQs:

Retreat cost:

$675 for early bird enrollment (prior to August 15th)

$775 after August 15th

What is included in the enrollment cost?

Enrollment includes the 3 day retreat and catered meals throughout:

• Dinner Friday night

• Breakfast, lunch, and dinner on Saturday

• Breakfast and lunch on Sunday 

• Snacks and refreshments 

Optional, but encouraged Zoom calls to prepare prior and integrate after retreat:

• Thursday September 12th 10-11:30 am EST

• Wednesday October 22nd 6-8 pm EST (Integration Call)

• Monday November 17th 6-8 pm EST (Additional Integration Call)

Enrollment cost does not include the cost of your room for the two nights. The room rates range from $40 a night to $149 a night depending on the room or Suite you’d like to book. Room options range from private luxury suites in the retreat center to single or shared rooms available in the Harvest House (which is a separate home next to the retreat center).

This retreat is located at the Gleaning’s Foundation in Robbinsville, NC

Address:

167 Lodge Ln, Robbinsville, NC 28771

Travel is not included in your registration. The closest airports are: 

• Asheville, NC

• Knoxville, TN 

• Atlanta, GA

If you’d like to coordinate your travel with other retreat participants, please indicate that on the registration form so you can carpool together if that’s what you choose to do!

All meals are included and the retreat remains on site throughout the weekend, so the only travel to be coordinated is to the retreat center on Friday and your departure home from the retreat on Sunday afternoon. Rental car or travel costs are not included in the registration cost. You’re also welcome to extend your booking a night or more to allow for integration after the retreat if you choose, just let Nina know once you book your room. 

After registering for the retreat you will receive contact information to book your room. 

Refund policy: 

Cancellations prior to August 14th will receive a 50% refund, while cancellations between August 15th and September 12th will receive a 25% refund.

• Unfortunately, cancellations on September 12th or later are non-refundable.

• Please allow up to two weeks for refunds to be processed and completed.

Ask Nina about refunds on lodging.

To enroll, click "RSVP" button above, or this link.