Fierce Souls
and Tender Hearts:
a Courageous Gathering Across Generation and Gender
Sep 24 - 27, 2026
At Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat
***SEE FULL EVENT DESCRIPTION HERE on RMERC website
A gathering to support a deep, soul-centered, nature-rooted journey in community, exploring the integration of masculine and feminine energies, fierce tenderness, power and compassion, inner elder and youth, wisdom and innocence, and the creative expression essential to wholeness and human connection.
Carol Kortsch, Will Forsythe and Laurie Adams welcome you - We will be your facilitators for the lon weekend!
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Come join us, just beyond the known – where our fierce souls and tender hearts are summoned by the wild, shape-shifting presence of the sacred. With the living land as guide, this intentionally intergenerational and gender inclusive retreat invites us deeper into the psychospiritual journey and capacity to be a community body of fierce tenderness in these times.
In this Equinox time, we wade into the depths to courageously explore the generative integration of perceived polarities: power and tenderness, clarity and compassion, sacred feminine and masculine, anima and animus, wisdom and innocence, elder and youth.
We will listen for the wise elder within, regardless of age, and reclaim the creative expression and innate powers essential to our wholeness, as we navigate this threshold of our lives together.
Held by the wisdom of the land and each other, our days will weave solitude and community, solo wandering on the land, courageous circle practice, the depth work of soul and shared ritual. We will root ourselves in earth-based, soul-centric practices – in particular working with shadow and projection – and ancestral memory as we step into the deep waters of the unknown, tend our grief and longing, and reclaim wholeness to strengthen our capacity for the collective work of The Great Turning and unraveling.
Together, we will create a Circle of Trust® grounded in the principles and practices of the Courage & Renewal approach, the Animas Valley Institute and Bill Plotkin’s work and the Work that Reconnects from Joanna Macy.
