We hosted Educator Wellness Retreats in Ontario and BC in 2025!
Please feel free to email us at info@takemeoutside.ca if you have any questions!
Take Me Outside Educator Wellness Retreats are restorative gatherings where educators can reconnect with nature and themselves, build community, and cultivate a renewed sense of teacher identity in order to support their health and well-being. These retreats will focus on wellness as a holistic approach to the integration of mind, body and spirit, centering a variety of wellness approaches which all provide opportunities for educators to foster a deep and meaningful relationship with nature.
Educators will have the space to disconnect, slow down and rejuvenate in nature so that they can return to teaching feeling refreshed, calm, centred and balanced. Participants will be invited to connect to the Land, reflect on their teaching identity and stress levels, consider the way their relationship to nature connects to their teaching practice and envision how they can embed practices that enhance their health and well-being into their daily life.
Equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility are central to these retreats and we will work to create an inclusive, safer space and address the diverse needs of educators, centering and amplifying the voices of educators who may be experiencing barriers. We are also working to increase access to these retreats for underrepresented educators.
Wellness Retreats will provide an integrated, holistic approach in order to promote mental, emotional, physical and spiritual well-being, focused on six central themes:
Retreat offerings and activities will include:
These Wellness Retreats will lead to increased health and well-being for educators and by extension learners, as well as contribute to a larger goal of healing relationships between human communities and the more-than-human world, contributing to increased reciprocity and mutual wellness for all.
We are currently planning pilot retreats for 2025 and we’ll post details as soon as retreats are confirmed.
We all know how good being in nature can make us feel. We have known it for millennia. The sounds of the forest, the scene of the trees, the sunlight playing through the leaves, the fresh, clean air – these things give us a sense of comfort. They ease our stress and worry, help us to relax and to think more clearly. Being in nature can restore our mood, give us back our energy and vitality, refresh and rejuvenate us.
The below research paper explores how nature connection can be deeply restorative, offer opportunities for self-care, self-compassion and stress reduction, improve resiliency to stressful challenges, as well as contribute to a renewed sense of meaning in both one’s life and teaching practice. You can click here if you would like to download this paper as a .pdf!
Good teaching cannot be reduced to good technique. Good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher. You teach who you are.
We will put details here as soon as we've confirmed our 2026 Educator Wellness Retreats.
See the Sample Schedule below to learn more about what a retreat schedule could look like. Kindly note, this is just an example and exact schedules will vary depending on the retreat location. Participants will have a chance to build their own customized, spacious schedule before the Retreat weekend by choosing which morning and afternoon sessions they would like to participate in each day.
