The work of Heart’s Rest Retreat Centre is to support renewal, change, and creative vision for individuals and communities.  Our desire is to help others enter into connection with the Holy within and around them; to support their heart’s work; and to facilitate their heart’s growth.  We are called to this work out of our own deep love for the Holy that shines in all of creation.

Heart’s Rest is a place of relationship. So we consciously sustain our relationships with each other, with God-as-we-understand-God, with our communities, and with the earth around us.

Heart’s Rest is a place of prayerful hospitality.  We support the heart work of others through our prayer, through the preparation of space and meals, and through our thoughtful listening to the deep concerns of our retreatants and the world around us.

Heart’s Rest is also a place of alchemy, a catalytic container for the renewal of spirit and commitment, for the growth of the heart.  We work to develop programs and connections that foster radical receptivity.  We believe that as people enter more deeply into heart-sighted knowing—the wisdom that occurs when the spirit and the intellect are brought together in open-heartedness—the world is renewed, and healing is possible.