The Journey Home Retreat

Our Journey Home retreats are three day/two night retreats aimed at helping you feel more at home in the love of God. These retreats are stand-alone retreats that cover the highpoints of our year long Eden Cohorts which involve three Retreats:

• Knowledge of God - Helping leaders encounter God as better than we believed him to be. 
• Knowledge of Self - Helping leaders embrace the beauty and limits of who they are as the beloved of God. 
• Pace & Practices - Helping leaders establish a pace and practice for a life of relational flourishing.

The majority of our retreat spots are reserved for people who are in an active leadership role in their church, their ministry organization, or the marketplace. 

The cost to attend our Journey Home Retreats vary depending on the location of that retreat.

The fee includes everything you need while on retreat: a private room and bath, all meals, and daily refreshments. The Journey Home Retreats are a summary of our Eden Lead Year formation which is a balance of: audits, content, ongoing practices, stories, and group discussions to provide a right-brain experiential (re)training. Throughout the The Journey Home Retreat you’ll experience:

• A taste of Relationally safe environments conducive for souls (which are very shy) to open up to love.
• A taste of discovering and reforming your own emotional image of God.
• An example of how resources, retreats, and relationships can and will deepen all of your relationships.
• An explanation of what a “triad” is and how to implement it in your own life. 
• Have a sample of takeaway insights and practices that you can apply daily with God and weekly with others.

Once you’ve submitted your preferred retreat, we will contact you with more information about attending approximately a month before the start of the retreat. If you have questions at any point, you can contact info@edenteam.org. Complete this application form and pay the $25 fee to apply to attend a single retreat and experience a taste of feeling more at home in the love of God.

The registration fee includes all room and board and the materials and facilitator costs. Participants will be responsible for travel expenses to and from retreats.

• Left brain dominant formation (i.e. humans as merely “thinking things”)
• Correcting for those only optimizing for productivity/profitability to the neglect of relationships
• Weak connections with God, self, and others
• Loneliness
• Stranger to ourselves
• Alone Together technological distractions
• Fear/shame/hiding 
• Addiction (i.e. impaired attempts at intimacy without vulnerability)
• Bored with Church. Bored with God.
• Feeling like there has to be more with God (low experience of the love of God)

Send an email to info@edenteam.org and the administrators will answer any questions that you may have.

Affirmation of the Lausanne Covenant and the Apostles Creed.

Yes. We will serve healthy and nutritious meals; and they try to accommodate a variety of dietary restrictions. We inform the kitchen/catering staff when we have individuals in our group who have some special dietary needs. This will accommodate vegetarian and gluten-free options for those who specified that when registering. 

We build our retreats and cohorts for both marketplace and ministry leaders, both female and male. The Journey Home Retreat is ideal for those who are hungry for more with God, who are experiencing a low ceiling in their relationships, or who simply sense that there has to be more to Christianity than they are currently experiencing. 

If you have been formed enough in Christ to be an imperfect, but committed disciplemaker…

If you are hungry to experience more with God than you’ve known…

If you are willing to admit your neediness before God… 

…you’re a great candidate for Eden Lead.

Cancellation Policy – The Journey Home Retreat

We understand that life is sometimes unpredictable. Because retreat planning requires advance financial commitments to our venues, lodging, and meals, the following cancellation terms help us steward each retreat with integrity and care:

• More than 6 weeks before the retreat: You will receive a full refund.

• Between 3 and 6 weeks before the retreat: A $250* cancellation/change fee will apply.

• Between 6 and 21 days before the retreat: A $400* cancellation/change fee will apply.

• 5 days or fewer before the retreat, or in the case of a no-show: The full registration fee will be retained.*

All cancellation or change requests must be submitted in writing and are processed based on the date received.

 * If we can fill your spot with someone on the waiting list, we will adjust this Cancellation/Change fee.

Compassionate Consideration:
If a serious illness, family emergency, or other significant unforeseen circumstance prevents you from attending, please reach out to us directly. While we cannot guarantee exceptions, we will prayerfully consider each situation on a case-by-case basis. You can reach us directly by emailing Lindy at lgschwend@edenteam.org.