EASTERN CIRCLE
MAY 21-24, 2026 - SPRUCE KNOB, West VIRGINIA
The Flagship Gathering. Join us for meditation, mindfulness, and skill-building to deepen relationships, build community, and increase emotional awareness.
Join The Journeymen in our annual Relational Retreat in Spruce Knob, West Virginia—a three-day experience to build community, increase emotional awareness, and deepen relationships over a long weekend in the wilderness. This year we’ll be returning to the Spruce Knob Center, a 400-acre high-elevation preserve located in the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia. Featuring some of the darkest night skies in the eastern United States, the highest peak in the state, and extensive northern hardwood forests, The Spruce Knob Center offers a unique outdoor environment to foster relationships and create community.
FOCUS: Much of life is about tools, but there are things that no amount of strength, resource or power can do for you. For these things, men need spaces of reflection, support and soulfulness. This gathering of men is a combination of community-based connection, facilitated learning, and experiential activity, spread across a long weekend in the largest wilderness in the Mid-Atlantic. Each day will be filled with rest and movement, beginning and ending with meditation and mindfulness practices. Throughout the retreat, you’ll learn and collaborate with skilled practitioners facilitating sessions in Movement, and Flow Hacking. Each day you’ll also join spaces for small and large group circling, and move through modalities meant to attend to fear, resilience, grief, gratitude, and community-based storytelling.
In addition, If you work with men, or support men, this retreat will give a you a set of tools that allow you to do so with greater skill and awareness.
ACCOMMODATIONS: Spruce Knob Retreat Center has a variety of accommodations that include individual yurts, shared rooms, and outdoor camping sites for those who prefer to be under the stars but in short distance to common areas of dining, showers, and fire pits. This is a rustic retreat with the creature comforts necessary to rest and replenish from our days of deep diving into building relational awareness and stronger communities.
DATES: May 21-24, 2026
WHAT’S INCLUDED:
Three-nights accommodations
All meals (not including alcohol)
Nightly speakers
Workshops and coaching
Yoga, breathwork, mindfulness, hiking, and more
COST: $1250 (contact us if you need financial assistance)
SIGN UP TODAY – this relational retreat is limited to 30 men
Full Schedule
Full Schedule will be released in late February. Attendees should arrive by 5PM Thursday Night to share dinner.
Circling will Go through Sunday at 1PM.
