Our Retreats are gatherings that bring together an even wider array of people for shared learning and partnership-building. To date, they have ranged in length from a half-day to three days.
Retreat themes have included building relationships among community engagement staff in higher education, cultivating trans-boundary connections, and advancing the Community Engagement Fellows Coalition.
During retreats, we mix in opportunities to learn about the local area, and to relax and have fun together. They are an enlivening way of refining, sharing, and improving our practices in different contexts, and being a resource for people who cannot access other CE Fellows programming.
Please email Travis Tennessen if you're interested in co-hosting a future retreat.
Previous Retreats
October 22, 2022: Learning Together in the Cascade Foothills (Deming, WA)
Co-hosted with Whatcom County Libraries
July 19-22, 2022: Cultivating Communities of Practice (Bellingham, WA)
Facilitated by Beverly & Etienne Wenger-Trayer
July 26-29, 2022: System Convening Across Boundaries (Tacoma, WA)
Facilitated by Beverly & Etienne Wenger-Trayer
February 19-21, 2020: State of the Art (Bellingham (Xwotqwem), WA)
Co-hosted with Eastern Washington University, University of Puget Sound, and Whiteswan Environmental
September 20, 2019: Learning Through Place from the Start (Bellingham, WA)
Co-hosted with Geneva Elementary School
August 22, 2019: Learning Together in the Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA)
Co-hosted with the University of Puget Sound
June 13-14, 2019: Community Engagement Fellows Coalition Gathering (Bellingham, WA)
May 4-5, 2019: Learning Together in the Salish Sea, (Galiano Island, BC)
Convening Team: Community Engagement Fellows, Galiano Conservancy, Whiteswan Environmental, WWU Center for Canadian-American Studies, and WWU Salish Sea Institute
April 12, 2019: Learning Together in the South Sound (Chambers Bay, WA)
Co-hosted with Northwest Indian College and the University of Puget Sound
March 9-10, 2019: Learning Together in the Salish Sea (Friday Harbor, WA)
Co-hosted with Children of the Setting Suns Productions, Friends of the San Juans, Whiteswan Environmental, and WWU Salish Sea Institute
August 1-3, 2018: Community Engagement Fellows Retreat (Bellingham, WA)
June 14, 2018: Salish Sea Engagement Retreat (Bellingham, WA)