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class="hero-eyebrow">Drake Living & Dying Design</div><h1>Summer Solstice Grief Retreat</h1><div class="hero-sub">A day and a half on a working flower farm. The solstice as threshold.</div></section><div class="event-details-bar"><span>June 20–21, 2026</span><span class="sep">·</span><span>Farm53 Flowers, Shelton, WA</span><span class="sep">·</span><span>10–15 Participants</span><span class="sep">·</span><span>$225–$325 Sliding Scale</span></div><div class="cta-bar"><p>Space is limited. Registration is by email.</p><a href="mailto:Support@DrakeLDD.com?subject=Solstice%20Retreat%20Registration" class="cta-btn">Email Bob to Register</a></div><section class="section"><div class="section-label">About This Retreat</div><h2>Grief unwitnessed doesn't resolve. It settles.</h2><p>On June 20th and 21st, I'm hosting a small grief retreat at Farm53 Flowers — a six-acre working flower farm on Oakland Bay in Shelton, Washington. Day and a half. Ten to fifteen people. The summer solstice.</p><p>The work is the same work I do in the eight-week cohort series and the Death Soirée, compressed into an immersive format: being witnessed, moving through what has been stuck, a self-forgiveness practice, and Sunday morning — the solstice — as a threshold. A ritual releasing at the land. A first movement toward something different.</p><p>This is for anyone carrying grief. The loss of a person, a relationship, a version of life that was supposed to continue. No particular background or belief system required.</p><div class="pull-quote"><p>You don't have to be ready. Most people who come to a retreat like this aren't sure they're ready. They come anyway, because the weight of carrying it alone has become heavier than the discomfort of being witnessed.</p></div></section><hr class="divider"><section class="section"><div class="section-label">What to Expect</div><h2>How the time unfolds</h2><p>The retreat is structured and moves. By Sunday morning, something will have shifted.</p><div class="schedule"><div class="schedule-day"><div class="schedule-day-label">Saturday, June 20</div><div class="schedule-item"><div class="schedule-time">Morning</div><div class="schedule-what"><strong>Arrival & Opening Circle</strong>Scones and coffee. Each person names their loss — briefly, without commentary from the group. Just naming it and being heard. That's the first act of grief work, and it's harder and more meaningful than it sounds.</div></div><div class="schedule-item"><div class="schedule-time">Late Morning</div><div class="schedule-what"><strong>The Scar Tissue Teaching</strong>The framework Bob has developed over twenty years: what unwitnessed grief does to us over time, and what becomes possible when it's finally seen.</div></div><div class="schedule-item"><div class="schedule-time">Midday</div><div class="schedule-what"><strong>Lunch Together</strong>Provided. Time to breathe and be with the farm.</div></div><div class="schedule-item"><div class="schedule-time">Afternoon</div><div class="schedule-what"><strong>Facilitated Pairs Work & Forgiveness Practice</strong>Two people witness each other — not fixing, not advising, not sharing their own story. Just presence. Attention. The thing most of us have never given our grief. Followed by the forgiveness work: not forgiving others, but forgiving yourself.</div></div><div class="schedule-item"><div class="schedule-time">Evening</div><div class="schedule-what"><strong>Free Time on the Farm</strong>The formal work is done for the day. The farm is yours — the fields, the forest edge, Oakland Bay. A fire. That kind of quiet.</div></div></div><div class="schedule-day"><div class="schedule-day-label">Sunday, June 21 — The Solstice</div><div class="schedule-item"><div class="schedule-time">Morning</div><div class="schedule-what"><strong>Scones & Coffee</strong>The last morning at the farm.</div></div><div class="schedule-item"><div class="schedule-time">Mid-Morning</div><div class="schedule-what"><strong>Solstice Ritual at the Land</strong>Writing what we're willing to release. Offering it at the fire or the water. Not because the work is finished, but because the direction has shifted. A threshold practice on the longest day of the year.</div></div><div class="schedule-item"><div class="schedule-time">Closing</div><div class="schedule-what"><strong>Closing Circle & Sending Off</strong>Integration, not resolution. Honoring what the group built — and releasing into it.</div></div></div></div></section><hr class="divider"><section class="section"><div class="section-label">Practical Information</div><h2>Everything you need to know</h2><div class="detail-grid"><div class="detail-item"><h4>Dates</h4><p>June 20–21, 2026</p></div><div class="detail-item"><h4>Location</h4><p>Farm53 Flowers<br>Shelton, WA (Oakland Bay)</p></div><div class="detail-item"><h4>Group Size</h4><p>10–15 participants</p></div><div class="detail-item"><h4>Pricing</h4><p>$225–$325 sliding scale</p></div><div class="detail-item"><h4>Scholarships</h4><p>A small number of scholarship spots are available. Reach out directly — no elaborate explanation required.</p></div><div class="detail-item"><h4>What's Included</h4><p>Saturday lunch · Scones & coffee each morning · All facilitated sessions</p></div><div class="detail-item"><h4>Lodging</h4><p>Not included. Shelton has local options; Olympia is 30 min away. Ask Bob for suggestions.</p></div><div class="detail-item"><h4>Registration</h4><p>By email. Reply to confirm your spot and arrange payment.</p></div></div></section><hr class="divider"><div class="about-section"><div class="about-inner"><div class="section-label">Your Facilitator</div><h2>Bob Drake</h2><p>Interfaith Clinical Chaplain · End-of-Life Educator · Death Doula · Grief Counselor</p><br><p>I've spent twenty years at the intersection of life and death — in hospice rooms, ICUs, and pediatric oncology wards, as well as in emergency, psychiatric, and disaster spiritual care. I served as Director of Spiritual Care Education at the Academy of Aid in Dying Medicine, and I lecture nationally on end-of-life care, MAiD, VSED, and grief.</p><p>This work is the work I've done in clinical settings, translated into a community container. The same frameworks. The same rigor. Room for it to be what it needs to be.</p><p>Questions before registering? I welcome them. Email me at <a href="mailto:Support@DrakeLDD.com" style="color:#3D7065">Support@DrakeLDD.com</a> or call <a href="tel:9718134357" style="color:#3D7065">(971) 813-4357</a>.</p></div></div><section class="register-section"><h2>Ready to come?</h2><p>The group is small by design. If this is calling you, I'd encourage you not to wait.</p><div class="register-options"><a href="mailto:Support@DrakeLDD.com?subject=Solstice%20Retreat%20Registration" class="register-btn">Email Bob to Register</a><a href="tel:9718134357" class="register-btn secondary">Call (971) 813-4357</a></div><p class="scholarship-note">Scholarship spots available — reach out directly if cost is a barrier.</p></section><div class="land-ack"><p>Farm53 Flowers sits on the ancestral homelands of the Squaxin Island Tribe — the People of the Water — and within the traditional territory of the Skokomish Tribal Nation — the People of the River — whose peoples have lived along these southern Puget Sound inlets and Oakland Bay since time immemorial and remain sovereign peoples in this place today. 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