Retreats

We facilitate intentional gatherings designed to nurture team renewal through meaningful connection. Drawing from both trauma-informed approaches and indigenous wisdom traditions, these experiences create sacred space for authentic dialogue, collective healing, and purposeful growth toward equity.

A Holistic Framework

Team and organizational transformation requires attention to both visible dynamics and deeper currents. By integrating trauma-informed principles, we acknowledge that individuals and systems carry histories that influence present interactions. Through indigenous wisdom practices, we reconnect teams with circular ways of knowing that emphasize relationship, reciprocity, and wholeness in pursuit of evolving equity.

Core Elements

Psychological Safety: Creating containers where vulnerability becomes strength
Embodied Learning: Engaging multiple ways of knowing beyond intellectual understanding
Cyclical Time: Honoring natural rhythms of reflection, integration, and action
Community Wisdom: Recognizing that solutions emerge from collective intelligence
Ancestral Connection: Acknowledging lineages of knowledge that inform our present work

Cross-Cutting Elements

Regular reflection spaces for processing and integration
Mix of individual, paired, and group activities
Alternating analytical and creative approaches
Dedicated time for relationship building and informal connection

Customized Experience

Retreats may be tailored to meet your team’s needs, integrating strategic planning or topic specific planning. Offered in flexible formats from half-day sessions to multi-day immersions, each Retreat is customized to meet your team’s unique context while honoring universal principles of healing and growth.

Through this journey, teams discover renewed purpose, deeper trust, and sustainable pathways forward that honor both individual wellbeing and collective flourishing in service of authentic equity.

Secure Your Retreat Experience

Ready to begin your team's journey? We invite you to complete our retreat request form to explore dates and possibilities for your organization.

Retreat Request Form

Have questions or want to learn more first?

Schedule a no-obligation consultation with Dr. Williams to discuss your specific needs and how our retreats might serve your team here.

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Evolve Equity® is proudly 100% Indigenous women owned and operated, founded by licensed Indigenous trauma psychologist Dr. Jonnie Williams.

Our office is located on the ancestral lands of the Chumash peoples.

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PO Box 833, Carpinteria, CA 93014