53 Mill Street, Westfield, MA, USA
July 17 - 19, 2026
About this Retreat
Liz Walz, PhD, is a spiritual director and retreat leader with more than 30 years’ experience in guiding spiritual retreats. She teaches and practices BioSpiritual Focusing and contemplation, and is a certified yoga teacher, massage therapist, and nonviolence trainer. Liz's doctoral research explored the spirituality and psychology of dreams through one-on-one sessions with her colleagues in a mental health therapeutic milieu. She lives on Cape Cod.
Lynn Wolden, MA, is retired from piloting passenger aircraft at a major airline. For her, every flight became an adventure, and the act of maneuvering the aircraft continued to hold the delight of eating a chocolate bar. Lynn is also an avid nature-lover. She earned a Master’s degree in Ecological Restoration, where her research was a combo of both collecting all plants that grew along an unusual perennial-river section in Arizona, and of planting test plots to learn the success (or not) of reintroducing plants native to the ecosystem (to hopefully replace the introduced plants that had taken over).
So what is Lynn doing here in soul land?! In dream land? After retiring from work in the above two fields, Lynn switched to the ‘other side of her brain’, proving that even an analytical mind can explore and be at home in the world of imagination, where trees talk and the earth dreams. Lynn completed three years of certification in Dream Tending and Deep Imagination (under Dr. Stephen Aizenstat). She has ‘tended’ many dreams, inviting the dreamer into a deeper experience of their dream, and thus of their soul. Drawing on her own experience of making art from the dream images, she encourages the dreamer into their own art-making. As for soul land, Lynn started her spiritual search at a young age; it has always been the central part of her journey. Since she discovered CG Jung four years ago, she has been a voracious reader of all things Jungian. Lynn lives in CA with her husband.
Details of this retreat
Dreams whisper divine secrets, beckoning us to listen—will you heed their call?
Without a vision, the people perish. Proverbs 29:18
In Biblical scripture, for people to receive dreams and visions is common. In fact, the absence of dreams or visions is sorely noted. Life in modernity tells a different story; dreams are often ignored or devalued and nightmares terrify, while waking visions are viewed with skepticism and sometimes psychologically pathologized.
But what about the scripture of our lives? Divinity is stirring in our depths; do we believe it? Do we perceive the call and consolation of Mystery, or are we missing the signs all around and within us in the rush of our work-a-day lives? The living figures of dreamtime can support us in bearing the griefs and stresses of the waking world, open new capacities within us, and lead us into unexpected, meaningful, and joyful experiences and adventures.
Join this weekend retreat to make space to attune to the sacred material of your life. We will tend the dreams of participants who volunteer. The days will also include morning prayer, music, poetry, relaxation, gentle movement, and optional creative expression. People from all walks of life and orientations are welcome, including those without connection to a spiritual tradition.
Schedule
Friday
3:00pm Check-in begins
6:00pm Dinner – Welcome, Introductions, Housekeeping
7:00 – 8:30pm Overview of Schedule; Introduction to Themes; Ritual
8:30 – 8:45pm Night Prayer
Saturday
8:00am Breakfast
9:00 – 11:45am Morning Prayer & Session I
12:00pm Lunch
1:30 – 5:45pm Session II & Session III
6:00pm Dinner
7:15 – 8:30pm Embodiment Practice & Sharing
8:30 – 8:45pm Bedtime Story
Sunday
8:00am Breakfast
9:00 – 11:45am Morning Prayer; Session IV; Break; Closing Ritual
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm Check-out & Departure
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