Togetherness: A meta-response to the meta-crisis

Times are feeling strange, aren’t they?

For years and even decades, we’ve been hearing warnings about ecological, technological, political and institutional widescale transformation, and even collapse. While the sirens often sounded dire, at times, it all felt far away. A potential unfolding in the future. Something we might experience…one day.

These days, it’s feeling really real.

In GTC language, we seem to be going down, down, down the left side of the U.

The Metacrisis, as it's sometimes called, is manifesting now more than ever. These are no longer merely abstract ideas but lived, embodied realities that we’re all being asked to face. The future many imagined is the present we’re now living in the midst of.

A question at the heart of our community is how can we face it all together?

Being together, in-person, in our bodies, with our open hearts and in relationship with those who know deep transformation in their bones can help us come into right relationship with how to show up for these times, for each other and for life.

This August, we’re inviting you to join us on Whidbey Island for our 2025 GTC Community Gathering. Together, we’ll be opening into a living inquiry around how real relationship can be a meta-response to the meta-crisis.

Intimacy. Depth. Awakening. Holding. Belonging. Revealing. Feeling. Unfolding. Enacting.

“When times are urgent, it’s best to slow down.” -Bayo Akomolafe

Slowing down can mean coming into deeper contact with what really matters. It’s opening ourselves up to relationship, to an intimacy that radiates as the ground of our very nature. Paradoxically the soil of this intimacy is alive and teeming with life, a creative force where insights and whispers from soul are brewing with latent potential.

It’s as if the seeds of the future are planted in the ashes of yesterday, cultivated through the warmth and strength of community.

GTC - not just the program but our global collective - was made for these times. How can we come together to prototype and birth our individual and collective responses to these times? How can we fully show up? To renew our intentions. Ask for support. Celebrate the miracle of life. Create new possibilities, together. And to protect what we love, with our love.

“A group of wise people, tethered through intimacy, is the most powerful problem-solving system in the universe.” – Bonnitta Roy

As always, our gathering will include a combination of playing, praying and practicing together. Dancing, hiking, cuddling, group practice spaces, emergent offerings sourced from our collective, enriching conversations, and magical moments of joy, healing, learning and simply being with one another, together.

We hope to see you in August!

Details and Registration

WHEN

Arrival: Thursday, August 14 at 4pm

Departure: Sunday, August 17 at 2pm

Thursday evening includes registration, dinner and evening opening to the gathering. The gathering ends on Sunday at 12:30pm and includes lunch with departure at 2pm. Each day will include facilitated practice, self-organized and offered spaces, time for solo retreat and spontaneous connections, beautiful meals and nature, evening social time, dance, creative offerings, and the unexpected.

Note: If you and your cohortmates would like to arrive a night early, we can help you arrange this! Just reach out to hello@pacificintegral.com for more information.

WHERE

The Whidbey Institute

WHO

You and a family of diverse and spectacular GTC grads from around the globe.

COSTS

Retreat tuition: $750

Scholarships are available at 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% levels.

Retreat registration:

Costs vary depending on your choice accommodations (all prices include tax):

Single room: $912.41
Shared room: $738.90
Camping: $463.28
Commuter: $391.88

Your registration includes three nights of accommodations, use of facilities, and all meals from Thursday dinner through Sunday lunch.

Registration

We have a request for your support and commitment to the community.

If you are intending to join us, can you register soon rather than later? Your doing so helps us understand and predict the retreat budget including knowing more about what we have available to support those with less financial resources. Having a better sense of our numbers also helps us prepare well for the retreat.

This year we reserved the whole of the Whidbey campus, which is a bigger financial commitment on PI’s part. You can help us bear this responsibility by committing and registering to join us now, if you can! Thank you!

Scholarships (on tuition, not retreat costs) are available at 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% levels. To request a scholarship, apply one of the following discount codes at checkout: GATHER25OFF, GATHER50OFF, GATHER75OFF, or GATHER100OFF. (We trust you.)

Please register by August 6th to ensure we can accommodate you at The Whidbey Institute.

Register here

Questions?

If you have questions or need, or want to support - please contact us.