Year-Long Spiritual Formation Cohort

November 2-5, 2025

Lone Rock Retreat Bailey, Colorado 

The first RLP Spiritual Formation Cohort will convene 20-24 social impact leaders from across the country for three retreats spanning from November 2025 to November 2026. Our first retreat will focus on facilitating a powerful, healing Encounter with God and with this community. The second retreat will dive deep into an exploration of core spiritual disciplines and practices that support lasting Formation as a Christian leader. And our final retreat will synthesize everything learned throughout the year as we move toward Integration of our faith into every aspect of our lives and leadership.

Within the group of 24, we will form small groups of 4-5 people who will gather consistently both at the retreats and virtually between retreats for ongoing support and accountability.

Retreat Elements:

  • Prayer: We pray (a lot) individually, in small groups, and over and with each other as a whole group.

  • Testimony: Multiple members of the community share raw honest testimony of how God is moving in their lives and leadership.

  • Worship: We gather and worship God together and call on the Holy Spirit to open our hearts and minds.

  • Socratic Reading Discussion: We unpack themes and insights from selected readings in socratic discussions.

  • Somatic Reflection Stations: We build reflection stations throughout the campus and give participants the chance to engage in deep inner work in silence, solitude, and solidarity. 

  • Rituals: We integrate several rituals and daily rhythms into our retreats that often speak to the heart and our bodies in unique ways individually and as a community.

  • Small Groups: Each member of the community is part of a small group that meets consistently to go deeper into retreat themes and build more intimate relationships across lines of difference.

  • Meals & Table Discussions: We spend time integrating discussions during meals so that these moments of breaking bread together build on the themes of the retreat.

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November 1-4, 2026

Lone Rock Retreat Bailey, Colorado 

Enrollment is limited to 24 participants and registration is by application only.

Complete your confidential, simple application form here.

FAQ’s

  • RLP is made up of a growing community of disciples that hold positions of leadership and great responsibility in various sectors.  They are followers of Jesus and passionate advocates for equity but are different in every other category: race, politics, ideology, gender, theology, sexuality, and more.  Our first Spiritual Formation Cohort will include leaders who hold significant leadership roles in education or in adjacent spaces (church leaders committed to education equity, leaders in the youth mental healthcare space, leaders in youth development, leaders working to transform economic mobility for young people, etc). 

    Our members hold a diverse set of beliefs and embody a diverse set of identities. You will likely not agree with everything that is said or done, but you need to be able to respond to divergent opinions with respect, curiosity, and genuine love. Please read through our Community Commitments to ensure this is a community you feel comfortable engaging in.  We expect this cohort to be made up of leaders who are new to RLP and some leaders who have attended retreat(s) in the past.

  • The retreats will be facilitated and moderated by members of the RLP community including trained moderators Traci Dove, Tina Fernandez, and Bill Kurtz.  Irvin Scott will be our pastoral lead.  Jeff Nelson and Mindy Flach (alongside many others) will support with retreat design.

  • The fully loaded cost of the retreat is $3,240 per leader.  We ask that all selected leaders help contribute to the ongoing work of RLP in one of two ways.

    • Sponsorship: If your employer offers professional development dollars for leaders in your organization, we ask that you seek to finance your convening experience at the full cost of $3,240 through your employer.

    • Contribution: We ask that you consider making a donation to RLP at whatever level is meaningful to you to enable the ministry to grow beyond 2024.  RLP is a fiscally sponsored project of Grove Collective which is a tax exempt charitable organization that is qualified under Section 501(c)(3) and accordingly donations to RLP are tax-deductible to the extent permitted under the Internal Revenue Code.  Your retreat experience has been underwritten by a generous donor which means your generosity will help ensure that RLP can continue this impactful ministry in future years.

  • The November 2024 retreat will be hosted at Lone Rock Retreat campus about an hour outside of Denver in the Colorado mountains.  Ground transportation to Lone Rock will be provided as will a three-night single occupancy room with excellent meals.  

  • Participants are selected based on a willingness to participate in the messy work of building the beloved community with other Christians across difference and an earnest desire to give God the reins of our lives and leadership on behalf of others.  Great care is put into creating a cohort that reflects the diversity of the Body of Christ that is made up of leaders who hold significant responsibility in this important moment in our nation and world.

  • We are hoping to announce additional retreat dates for 2025 and beyond towards the end of 2024. If for some reason you are not selected to attend the November 2024 retreat, and you’d like to be put on a waiting list in case of cancellations, or on the waiting list for future retreats, that option will be made available to you.