Upcoming seminars and retreats

Connecting Through Creativity 

Dates coming soon!

(9:00 am – 5pm daily)

Workshop Only:  Price: $599  + GST Hiddenpondretreat@gmail.com use password Hiddenpond ) Pricing includes workshop fees, supplies and lunch daily. 

For out of town attendees there is some limitted accomodations available at Hidden Pond on a first come basis. 

Private Room: $175 + GST  per person per night (Includes contentinental breakfast daily) 

Shared Accodation in our bunkhouse room:  $125+ GST per person per night (Includes continental breakfast daily)

Facilitators: Jo-Ann Kevala & Louise Amuir

As we awaken from Covid isolation it is time to play, explore, get creative, and connect with others. This workshop is designed for people longing for in-person connection, in a facilitated and collaborative group setting. Bring your sense of humor, vulnerability, self-compassion and a sun hat.

Together and separately, we will explore writing, painting, mask making, theatre, music, movement and play in a FUN supported environment. No previous experience in any of those things necessary!Held at Hidden Pond Retreat in lovely Metchosin, this workshop will be held outdoors where possible and give you a chance to connect with others and with nature in a beautiful natural setting. The maximum group size will be 10 people. In order to participate, we require all attendees are vaccinated. We will be following whatever public health orders are in effect at the time. Protocols will be reviewed and communicated two weeks prior to course start.Your workshop fee includes all necessary supplies and materials, lunch each day, and snacks/coffee/tea for breaks. We suggest you dress in comfortable clothes and bring a smock or apron as some projects will involve paints or mess. Please bring your own yoga mat if you have one. You are also welcome to bring a swimsuit, towel, sunhat and sunglasses if you would like to enjoy a swim or hot tub during the breaks.

To register please contact Jo-Ann and Louise through Hiddenpondretreat@gmail.com

Cancelation policy: Payment due to secure registration. Maximum 10 participants. Waitlist will be created. 

A Journey to Self  Compassion

Dates coming soon!

(9:00 am – 5pm daily)

Workshop Only:  Price: $699  + GST Hiddenpondretreat@gmail.com use password Hiddenpond ). Pricing includes workshop fees, supplies and lunch daily.

For out of town attendees there is some limitted accomodations available at Hidden Pond on a first come basis. 

Private Room: $175 + GST  per person per night (Includes contentinental breakfast daily) 

Shared Accodation in our bunkhouse room:  $125+ GST per person per night (Includes continental breakfast daily)

Facilitator: Jo-Ann Kevala 

Is it time to become your own best friend? This program will benefit anyone who has tried to be the person they “should” be and, in the process, lost touch with the person within.  

* Recognize destructive patterns in your health or relationships

 * Have found outward success but inner emptiness 

* Experience destructive addictive tendencies 

* Experience self-hate 

* Care for others, but not yourself 

* Want to become your own best friend  

Using music, guided imagery, gestalt, art, stories and other experiential forms, you will have an opportunity to learn about the paths that lead you away from yourself, and explore paths that can direct you towards self-acceptance. There will be opportunities to explore blame and victimhood, patterns of striving that lead to self-hate, and a variety of ways we can move toward self-compassion.

The maximum group size will be 10 people. In order to participate, we require all attendees are vaccinated. We will be following whatever public health orders are in effect at the time.

 Protocols will be reviewed and communicated two weeks prior to course start. Your workshop fee includes all necessary supplies and materials, lunch each day, and snacks/coffee/tea for breaks. We suggest you dress in comfortable clothes and bring a smock or apron as some projects will involve paints or mess. Please bring your own yoga mat if you have one. You are also welcome to bring a swimsuit, towel, sunhat and sunglasses if you would like to enjoy a swim or hot tub during the breaks.

To register please contact Jo-Ann through Hiddenpondretreat@gmail.com

Cancelation policy: Payment due to secure registration. Maximum 10  participants. Waitlist will be created.