Find solace, sanctuary, and solidarity in the heart of the city.
The Louisville Retreat Center is a vital resource to community change-makers, designed as a home for personal exploration and expression, a hub for authentic intersectional alliances.
Grounded in historical awareness and focused on collective action, the Louisville Retreat Center aspires to be a beacon of transformation in the heart of the city fostering a just, flourishing, beloved community through personal healing and liberatory collective action.
Values
Healing and Transformation
We center healing as an end in itself. The flow of our agendas, timelines, and processes will unfold in service of holistic wellness, never against it. Due to this alignment, the ways we work together and the programs facilitated in our space allow for radical transformations toward future possibility. These vital shifts bring us home to ourselves and reorient our systems and movements toward the flourishing of all people and the planet.
Liberation and Justice
We labor for the freedom of all people and the harm of none. Liberation entails that each individual person can choose the next action, word, posture, or practice that helps them to get more free. Justice requires us to train and exercise our capacity to hold nuanced truths and personal experiences with a posture of solidarity as we support one another in our healing work.
Intersectionality and Inclusivity
We honor the intersectional experiences of individuals, recognizing the unique ways that privilege and oppression manifest for/as each person. Our space supports diverse perspectives but prioritizes indigenous wisdom, queer expression, and marginal voices. We practice decolonizing our concepts of hierarchy by aligning with models that fortify collective representation. Our approaches allow for folks typically ostracized to meaningfully participate, contributing according to strengths, receiving according to need.
Community and Solidarity
We act as a hub for community changemakers, fostering collaboration and solidarity among local organizations, activists, and healers. We emphasize the importance of building alliances for effective societal change and collective action. We practice building authentic community from the rooted awareness that we are all commonly linked in struggle and celebration.
Resilience and Hope
We facilitate space to rest, reconnect, and rejuvenate to foster radical resilience and kindle hope. When we collectively support sustainable practice that aligns with our values, people can engage in the work of transformation with strength, perseverance, and optimism. We actively shape our future with realistic awareness and visionary propensities.
Reconnection to Place and Ancestral Wisdom
We reckon with our city's past and uphold the diverse expression of Life rooted in the history of Louisville. We rekindle connection to the land and water, listening to the needs of our planet in this place. We remain present to the current conditions of our city while drawing on ancestral wisdom to vision forward together. We honor our inheritance by working with the resources at-hand to evolve and further visions of a better future.
Spiritual and Secular Modalities
We foster openness to and respect for various liberatory practices, integrating both spiritual and secular approaches to healing and changemaking. We encourage honest presence in personal exploration, recognizing there are many valid, vital paths to common liberation. We seek solid ground in our common needs and hopes for our community and beyond.
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