PATH ONE

Business and Organizational Partners

You have a real, mission-aligned business that needs a site 45 minutes from San Francisco to host some kind of regular work on a cadence (weekly, monthly, seasonally, annually). The business is real. You know that you would like access to the land with some regularity as a venue.

The Land includes

• a 300 square foot studio with an open wall that can comfortably hold about 15 people in a circle

• an outdoor dining table that can seat 20 easily

• a large fire pit (Hearth)

• a 3-acre meadow with 3 outdoor classrooms: one for 12, one for 7, and one for 40

• 10-acres of maintained trails on the property

• multiple forest bathing platforms, a hammock, incredible places to rest throughout

• ideal for a rhythm of gather centrally for an activity, then spread out into small groups, dyads, individually

• we can host 20 people easily with no sense of crowding

• 47 old-growth Douglas Fir trees in the primary meadow: a ring of ancient sentient beings

We have explored this with a number of people and organizations: here is what we’ve learned about what tends to work and what doesn’t.

WHAT IS LIKELY TO WORK

• You need a place in pristine nature, where the wildness and vitality of the place is part of what your clients are coming for

• You are working with a group that is comprised of 20 people or less

• You are not hoping to do this in November, December, January, or February when it is likely to be raining heavily and cold (the primary structure here is open to the weather, so if it is 48 degrees outside, it will be 48 degrees inside)

• We have explored this route with organizations seeking to host retreats, trainings, and off-sites (including consultants and a university)

• This could be a remarkable place to bring a team of clients for an off-site to help them think differently about a problem or do culture work, etc.

• A remarkable site to host a weekly men’s circle, or women’s group, or parenting group lead by a therapist or facilitator

• We’ve explored using the venue to host forest bathing and eco-therapy: remarkable for both

• We are already using it as the primary venue for our trainings in autonomic physiology

• We have used it as a primary venue for hard-ground tracking and deep nature awareness trainings

• We’ve explored partnering with a nature awareness organization serving adults or children

• People carpool in, or arrive and depart together so that traffic moves in a cluster not sporadically throughout the day

WHAT IS LIKELY NOT TO WORK

• Your clients expect a spa or resort-like atmosphere

• They are oblivious to self and Nature (this is a Sacred site, she doesn’t like that)

• You are working on a project that is not ecologically aligned (She doesn’t like that)

• Twenty cars coming and going throughout the day (neighbors get upset)