Spiritual Retreats
Join us for a Spiritual Retreat.
Autumn Retreat
A deeply restorative time to explore the beauty of Autumn, and how you are within this season.
Shannon and Jasmine will facilitate sessions with plenty of space to slow down, connect with yourself, the land and the Divine.
You will have the opportunity to share with others, enjoy good food, go on nature walks, respond creatively through movement, music, collage and writing, soak at the hot pools, and enjoy an outdoor fire (weather permitting).
- Peacemakers Retreat Centre 116 Fordyce Road, Parakai 0874
- 9am Saturday May 4th – 2pm Sunday May 5th
- $285 (all linen and meals provided)
- Spaces are limited so contact shannon@fledgling.nz to register with $50 by April 29th.
2023 retreats
Winter Spiritual Retreat Reflections 
Thank you, Shannon, for your fabulous facilitation and modelling the way in ‘letting go and letting God’. And thanks Jas for your magnificent meals and for giving food a whole new essential meaning.
Rodger
Shannon, Jasmine, again you both facilitated a really special weekend, providing fun, relaxation and rest, wonderful food, reminder of ‘kitchen love’, and opportunity to deepen my relationship with God. Linda
Thanks again, Shannon, for hosting our weekend with grace and lightness.
It was a real Winter Feast for me – spiritually, relationally, creatively, emotionally, and physically (with walks around Peacemakers and Jasmine’s delicious cooking).
The words you read from Ps 23 “…Your (God’s) beauty and love chase after me…” were embodied and experienced for me.
Jo
Dear Shannon, Jasmine and fellow retreaters
I feel very blessed to have spent such an enriching time amongst you all at the weekend. Thank you, Shannon for the wonderful and sensitive way in which you went about facilitating our winter exploration. All the thought and preparation were so valued. Jasmine, your passion for food is such an inspiration and has encouraged me to view this whole area with different eyes. The food was divine! I really appreciated all the conversations and open sharing of thoughts, responses and resources and feel blessed to have joined you.
Hoping our paths can all cross again at some stage.
Blessings
Juliet
Dear Shannon
Thankyou for the manner in which you curated and facilitated the weekend. I appreciated how you held the space for us to engage – your light touch. Also, the warmth you bring. It was delightful how Jas was weaved in and created food with love which brought another layer of richness. Time went too quickly and it could have been easy to linger longer and talk more with fellow participants. It was a comfortable space.
Maree
2023 Autumn Spiritual Retreat Reflections
Our Autumn retreat was a time of deep reflection using symbols, drawing, creating collage, walking the labyrinth, exploring the rongoa bush walk and relaxing in the hotpools.
We were physically nourished with delicious, flavoursome autumn food – thankyou Jasmine.
Our participants share their experience of the weekend:
“So blessed to have journeyed with Shannon on the Autumn Retreat. The Spirit danced in the falling leaves in the gusts of wind, in the flames of the potbelly fire, and in our hearts connecting with beautiful kai around the kitchen table through laughter and tears. I’m still journeying gently with God’s whisperings to my heart. Thank you to my retreat sister, to Shannon’s loving holding of our space – where two or three are gathered, I am in the midst.” Petra
“I came into this retreat as a tried mum of 2 young kids, needing time away with Jesus… and I ended up experiencing Him in a deeply personal and healing way as well as experiencing beautiful food, wonderful experiences of nature and the most deep and nourishing sense of community between all the attendees and Shannon and Jasmine. I am forever changed by this retreat and so thankful I went. Shannon is so gifted at holding space for people to be entirely and fully themselves. She curated creative experiences and spaces amongst the natural environment where we all felt we could be fully open and honest. These conversations spilled out into meal times where Jasmine served us seasonal nutritious food that felt like a generous gift. Our bodies and souls were completely nourished. Everything about the weekend was thoughtfully considered and symbolic. We arrived to a kitchen full of autumnal produce – bowls of walnuts and chestnuts, tamarillos and pears, pumpkins – and as we ate our last meal together we peeled the freshly roasted chestnuts with our soup. A lovely end to a weekend where Jesus was in every moment, conversation and autumnal leaf. Highly recommend. I came away with so much more than I ever expected.” Libby
“I highly recommend participating in Retreat at Peacemakers Parakai. Shannon’s gentle, skillful facilitation enabled me to find God’s deeply personal message in this autumn season. Transforming! A totally beautiful weekend – as rich as the colours of autumn; as scrumptious as the nutritious food served; as warm as the evening fire and the loving, accepting companionship of fellow retreatants; precious with God’s lavish blessings.” Linda.