Program Categories Hosted Event Archive

Mindful Self-Compassion: Core Skills for Anxiety, Stress & Burnout

With Victoria Pawlowski M.Ed., R.C.C. and Dr. Kristy Williams MD

November 8 - 9, 2025

View Room

Join us for a weekend retreat exploring mindful self-compassion to reduce stress, heal burnout, and increase emotional well-being.

Hakomi Practice: Tending the Fire Together

With Marcia Burton, RCC and Hakomi Trainer

November 15, 2025

Shepherd's Hall

Hakomi workshop offers experiential practices fostering emotional healing, self-reflection, connection, and fresh perspectives through group exercises and guided sessions.

Lead with Love, Embrace Abundance: The Prosperous Women in Business Retreat

November 21 - 23, 2025

Illuminations: A Spiritual Awakening Mystery Play

With The Awakeneers

November 22, 2025

Chapel

A musical journey exploring spiritual awakening, weaving songs, stories, and prayers into an evocative, insightful, and inspirational experience.

Resting in Awareness – 3 Day Mindfulness Meditation Retreat

With Stephanie Curran

November 27 - 30, 2025

Bethlehem Centre

Join Stephanie for a three-day silent, device-free mindfulness retreat with meditation, yoga, nature walks, and reflective discussions.

Roots to Thrive Experiential Training

December 5 - 8, 2025

Bethlehem Centre

The Roots to Thrive Experiential Intensive Training is a 52-hour blended program designed for mental health professionals with at least two years’ experience and foundational training in psychedelic theory. This training is made up of asynchronous study, three virtual prep sessions and culminates in a four-day in-person retreat in Nanaimo, BC. This immersive approach blends […]

Find Space, Breathe & Reconnect: a 1/2 day Silent Retreat

With Victoria Pawlowski M.Ed., R.C.C. and Dr. Kristy Williams MD

December 7, 2025

View Room

We will guide you with meditations and practices that can help you to reconnect with your breath, your body and your innate self-compassion.

Davey Tree Training Conference

December 9 - 11, 2025

View Room

Island Dharma: Healing, Purification, and Letting Go– Cultivate Wholesome States with Self-Compassion and Right Intention

With Dr. Cheryl Fraser

December 12 - 14, 2025

Chapel

A silent retreat focused on self-compassion, meditation, reflection, Dharma talks, and mindfulness to support healing, wisdom, and inner peace.

Island Dharma: Healing, Purification, and Letting Go– Cultivate Wholesome States with Self-Compassion and Right Intention (Program Only)

With Dr. Cheryl Fraser

December 12 - 14, 2025

Chapel

A silent retreat focused on self-compassion, meditation, reflection, Dharma talks, and mindfulness to support healing, wisdom, and inner peace.

Gillese Family Retreat 2025

December 19 - 21, 2025

BCIMS: Letting Go and Opening to Possibilities

With Rachel Lewis and Kristina Baré

December 28, 2025 - January 2, 2026

Bethlehem Centre

A year-end silent retreat to release burdens, deepen mindfulness, and welcome clarity, ease, and new possibilities through guided practice.

Journey of Birth Wosrkshops with Sarah

January 7, 2026

Winter Retreat into Silence 2026

With Nan Goodship and Murray Groom

January 11 - 18, 2026

Bethlehem Centre

A silent retreat is a time to rest and discern, an opportunity to be alone in a supportive community, in nature, and to deepen your spiritual journey.

Building Bridges Through Understanding the Village

January 15, 2026

Roots to Thrive/KCFN

January 23 - 25, 2026

Tending the Writer's Flame

January 30 - February 1, 2026

MSC Teacher Training

February 7 - 13, 2026

Bethlehem Centre

Are you interested in teaching the MSC curriculum? There are several prerequisites (listed below) to meet before being accepted into the teacher training course and you are encouraged to carefully consider whether you meet these prerequisites before you apply. Once accepted into the teacher training program, you will complete several steps to become a Trained […]

From Inner Critic to Inner Confidence: A Self-Esteem Masterclass

February 21, 2026

Mindful Self-Compassion Training Intensive

With Victoria Pawlowski M.Ed., R.C.C. and Dr. Kristy Williams MD

March 5 - 9, 2026

Bethlehem Centre

Book now and get CAD $125.00 off listed prices. Offer valid until Dec 31, 2025.

Mindful Self-Compassion is a training program that helps individuals respond to challenges with kindness and resilience. We will combine exercises, meditations, and group discussions to build self-compassion skills, emotional strength, and authentic connections.

The Cridge Center Leadership retreat

March 12 - 13, 2026

Tranquility Iyengar Yoga Retreat

April 2 - 5, 2026

Victoria Meditation Retreat

April 17 - 19, 2026

Sewing/Art Retreat

April 22 - 27, 2026

Harmonic Presence: Music of the Spheres of Being

With David Hykes

April 24 - 26, 2026

Chapel

Harmonic Presence helps participants awaken to universal sound, cultivate compassion, awareness, and harmony through silent listening, meditation, chanting, and communal practice.

Spiritual Path of Middle Age: Senses of the Soul Yoga and Meditation

May 2, 2026

Celebrating the Sacred Universe

May 3, 2026

Rest and Renew Retreat

May 31, 2026

Buddhist Meditation Retreat

With Ajahn Pavaro

June 29 - July 5, 2026

Bethlehem Centre

This silent retreat will focus on Buddhist approaches to meditation, in particular, the cultivation of 'mindfulness' as well as beneficial qualities such as loving-kindness and compassion. Instruction on Buddhist foundations for these practices will be offered throughout. Both sitting and walking periods of meditation will comprise much of each day. Morning and evening chanting, as […]