Karen Beetle has written a beautiful testament to the power of retreat on the Albany Times Union blog. “Attending a retreat or a conference is always a leap of faith. We carve out the time, scrounge up the money, and leave our everyday lives to open to a new environment, new information, a new community. And inevitably we are richer. For me it was combination of deep inspiration and the space to open and receive that worked its magic on me….This retreat [People Who Care for People – Tools for Resiliency, with Sharon Salzberg, Gina Sharpe and Cheri Maples] supported me in returning to a deeper understanding of this interconnectedness and its truth in my own mind and heart….”