Embracing Our Sacred Gender Journeys
March 27-29, 2026
with forrest Mainville & Kip Dooley
Step into a weekend where your gender story is met with care, curiosity, and respect. Guided by Kip and forrest, we’ll gather to share our genderful stories and deepen into what feels most true—held by community, nature, and gentle practice. This retreat welcomes the full range of experience: clarity and questioning, joy and grief, tenderness and strength.
Through writing, deep listening, meditation, time outdoors, and mindful movement, we’ll create a spacious container to slow down, reflect, and be witnessed.
Our intention is simple:
to make room for authenticity, connection, and celebration as we honor the sacred unfolding of our gender journeys.
Program Highlights:
- Guided writing prompts to explore your story with honesty and care
- Deep listening circles for sharing, witnessing, and mutual respect
- Meditation practices to ground, soften, and reconnect with inner knowing
- Time in nature for restoration, reflection, and spaciousness
- Gentle movement to support embodiment, regulation, and ease
- A retreat environment rooted in reverence, belonging, and celebration
This space welcomes all gender identities and expressions, including those who are exploring, questioning, or in transition.
Together we’ll create a supportive, reverent container to slow down, be witnessed, and celebrate the sacred unfolding of our gender journeys.
You will be met with care, respect, and kindness throughout the weekend.
Your
Guides
for the Journey
forrest Mainville (they/them)
Facilitator
forrest Mainville is a writer, teacher and lover of animals. They live on land stolen from the Dakota and Anishinaabe people, currently known as Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a retired Minnesota Child Welfare trainer and Hennepin County Social Worker. forrest teaches classes and offers retreats about aging and gender through a queer and gender expansive lens. Their work is to expand compassion for the LGBTQ community and increase gender justice for all.
Kip Dooley (they/them)
Facilitator
Kip Dooley is an educator, outdoor enthusiast, and an ordained teacher minister of the Diamond Approach® spiritual path. Born and raised in Minnesota and a graduate of St. Olaf College, their career has involved teaching youth of all ages a variety of subjects including Psychology, children’s literature, and world religions. They get everywhere by bike or bus, enjoy community singing, Tai Chi, and growing a home in Minneapolis with their partner Maren. Kip embraces a genderful orientation to life, recognizing that any name or identity we give ourselves is still an approximation to the limitless and magnificent array of qualities at the heart of our truest and deepest selves.