Retreats at Farm53

Coming August 2026

Extended Retreat for Death Care Professionals

Thursday Evening – Sunday Afternoon · August 2026
Olympic Peninsula · Shelton, WA
Limited to 12–15 participants

Topics we’ll explore:

  • What does it mean to die? What happens after?
  • The deaths that stay with us — boundaries and attachment
  • Complex ethics: MAiD, VSED, dementia planning
  • Self-care for accumulated grief
  • What sustains us when this gets hard?

Hosted outdoors, in a large yurt and under the canopy of the forest.

Between facilitated sessions, you’ll have time for contemplative traditional archery, flower farm tours and bouquet making, forest walking paths, quiet spaces for journaling and rest, and peer circles with people who understand this work.

The land itself does some of the healing work. You don’t have to be “on” the whole time.

Details and registration opening soon.