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  • United States of America
    • San Francisco
Length
10 days
Activities
Backpacking Camping Hiking Walking Yoga

Program Details

Group size
Medium Group (16-30)
Travel Type
Singles Solo Women
Intensity Level
Medium
Housing
Tent
Max Capacity
30
Age Max
32
Age Min
15

Pricing

Starting Price
500
Price Details
Tuition is 1.5% of annual family income, up to $2200.
A nonrefundable application fee of $35 is required and applied toward your tuition.
A deposit of $500 is required to reserve a space on the retreat.
What's Included
Activities Classes Tour Guide Transportation
What's Not Included
Airfare
May 25, 2017
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About Program

Learn mindfulness practices while backpacking through the stunning landscape of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Participants will:

* Cultivate awareness of the natural world and develop wilderness skills.
* Connect with yourself and others through guided meditation, movement, small group discussion, and fun workshops.
* Explore mindfulness practices that support emotional resilience, inner strength, and compassion towards self and others.
* Study with experienced teachers, mentors, and peers in a supportive environment.

This special retreat is for teens and young adults up to the age of 32. We will start and end at Silver Spur Retreat Center, but spend 6 nights out in the granite hills of the Emigrant Wilderness. Participants will be learning to practice mindfulness as well as backpacking and backcountry living skills. Participants will need to be well prepared to hike and camp outside for a week and provide much of their own gear.

August 9–18, 2017

This program is currently not being promoted on Go Overseas by its provider. Check with Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme) for the most up-to-date information regarding the status of this program.

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Program Highlights

  • mindfulness
  • wilderness skills
  • meditation

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Questions & Answers

Staff Interviews

These are in-depth Q&A sessions with program leaders.

Jessica Morey

Program
Inward Bound Mindfulness Education Wilderness Mindfulness Retreat
Job Title
Executive Director
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What is your favorite travel memory?

I traveled to Burma during a gap year before college to practice meditation in a Buddhist monastery. It was intense!

Waking up at 3 am, not eating after noon, meditating all day in the humid heat. And it was magical! I loved to walk to the golden Schwedagon Pagoda at dawn.

I still recall the peaceful smell of wood from cooking fires mixed with incense and the sounds of the monks' chanting interspersed with crowing cocks and barking dogs.

How have you changed/grown since working for your current company?

I didn't start my career in this field, though I've always been interested in meditation and mindfulness. I used to work in climate and clean energy policy. And while that is important work, it was hard to see the impact of my efforts. I also felt like our day-to-day actions weren't always fully aligned with our climate work.

At iBme, we try to actually live and work from our practice of mindfulness and compassion. I'm really glad that my life turned in this direction, because working with young people is extremely rewarding. I get to witness incredible transformation and growth in the young people I work with over the course of a week and in many cases over the course of years.

What is the best story you've heard from a return student?

Recently I received a message from a young adult who had gone on retreat years ago. He was on a mountaintop looking out at the sky, feeling totally present and connected.

He Facebook messaged me later that day to share his gratitude for the skills he learned on retreat – and how much they have added to the moments of his life. I can't imagine a more inspiring job.

If you could go on any program that your company offers, which one would you choose and why?

I love our wilderness retreats. The Emigrant Wilderness retreat in the Sierra Nevadas is probably my favorite. Every night we camp by a pristine mountain lake – that's warm enough to swim in!

I love the high rocky terrain that lets you see for miles across the wilderness, and we get off the beaten path so we often feel like we have the whole wilderness to ourselves and the marmots.

What makes your company unique? When were you especially proud of your team?

Our team is so dedicated to the work we do. All of us have directly experienced the benefits of mindfulness, compassion, and meditation in our lives and seen how much the teens on retreat benefit – and that's why we work so hard at iBme.

I'm also really proud of how committed we are to accessibility. We have never turned a teen away for lack of funds.

What do you believe to be the biggest factor in being a successful company?

Healthy communication! Which takes a lot of work and commitment from everyone in the organization.

We each have to build our own self-awareness and skills around feedback and difficult conversations. It's worth it to make a healthy, connected, and fully engaged community.

About Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme)

Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme) is a nonprofit that offers in-depth mindfulness programming for youth and the parents and professionals who support them in the US, Canada and the UK. Our programming guides teens and young adults in developing self-awareness, compassion, and ethical decision making, and empowers them to apply these skills...

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