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Family Retreat 2025

Find joy in a retreat for the whole family and take the time together to rest, reconnect, play, and enjoy! This is a four-night residential retreat for adults and their children ages 7-15 years old. The days will combine age-appropriate meditation and Dharma teachings, games, arts and crafts, nature time, and more. Kids and teens will have organized time each day to be with same-age peers, fully supervised by our outstanding mindful leaders. Adults will also have their own time to practice, relax, and receive Dharma from the teachers.

The family retreat creates a safe and nurturing environment where all family constellations, races, gender identities, and bodies are welcome and belong. Children and adults from participant families often forge lifelong friendships on this retreat.

2025-07-30 (5 days) Spirit Rock Meditation Center

  
2025-07-31 Loving Yourself is Good Parenting (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:12:19
Cara Lai
A lot of us are insecure in our parenting, but when we come back to the basics of practice, we find that just being ourselves and loving ourselves is just what we've been needing; both to heal and to be the kind of parents we want to be. This talk was given to parents at the Spirit Rock Family retreat.
2025-08-01 Kindness is the New Punk Rock (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:12:57
Ofosu Jones-Quartey
2025-08-02 7 Reasons to Choose Love over Hate (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 69:45
Diana Winston
Given at the Spirit Rock Family Retreat, this talk addresses the importance of love in a world filled with hatred. We explore how choosing love over hate directly relates to our parenting as well as to the larger suffering in the world. Some of the points include: hatred hurts, love feels great; hatred is uncurious, love seeks to understand; hatred clouds the mind, love brings wisdom. A helpful talk for any of us struggling to bring our practice to these current times.
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