When Women Gather - Fall Retreat
with Amanda Salima McCall, LCSW, LMT, Sarah Latifa, M.Ed, Annika Tara Hansche, MA, MHC, JJ Luceno and Eileen J. Raab, RN BSN
October 24 - 25, 2026
Looking for the perfect women’s retreat this fall? Join five local facilitators for a nourishing day of inward reflection, creativity, and renewal. Together we will explore gentle practices rooted in song, meditation, herbal care, soul collage, and hands-on creative expression, all designed to help you slow down and reconnect with your inner wisdom. As the seasons shift and nature invites us inward, this day offers an opportunity to embrace rest, gratitude, and renewal. Surrounded by the beauty of autumn, you’ll have space to reflect, create, and reconnect with the deep well of creativity, patience, and care that lives within you. Through shared experience, nature connection, and playful making, you’ll leave feeling grounded, inspired, and refreshed for the season ahead.
This day retreat includes a potluck-style lunch and light refreshments.
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Event Information
Dates: October 24th
Time: 9:30pm – 4pm
Location: The Abode
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Need to Stay the Night?
You can now book a room at the Abode anytime you’d like. Pair your workshop or day retreat with an overnight stay, and give yourself space to fully take in the beauty of the land and surroundings. You’ll be able to select a room from our Shaker inspired Razzaq Bedrooms, or our cozy and convenient Quddus Rooms.
About the Teachers
Amanda Salima McCall, LCSW, LMT
Amanda Salima McCall LCSW, LMT is a psychotherapist and bodyworker who provides therapy for teens and adults at a wellness center in the Berkshires. She also maintains a private massage practice in New Lebanon, where she weaves together embodied care, presence, and a wide range of massage and bodywork modalities. She is a longtime student […]
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Sarah Latifa, M.Ed
Sarah Latifa has been an educator for over 25 years. She has taught children and adults nature connection, gardening, woodworking, sewing, herbal medicinal product creation, music and a deep connection to the plant world. She is a certified herbalist through the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine and completed a 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training program. […]
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Annika Tara Hansche, MA, MHC
Annika Tara Hansche, is a psychotherapist with a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Palo Alto University. She has built a substantial career working with people through the arts and nature connection, and over the past three years has expanded her facilitation work to include leading retreats centered on intimacy, boundaries, and personal […]
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JJ Luceno
JJ Luceno has worked as a facilitator for over a decade with people of all ages in wildly different settings including: the outdoors, an urban health clinic, schools and domestic violence shelter. Storytelling, myth, and the expressive arts are at the heart of her work. She believes connecting with the creative reservoirs alive within and […]
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Eileen J. Raab, RN BSN
Eileen is an Emergency Room nurse by day and a designer by night. She understands that the intensity of life requires the restorative power of art in order to maintain balance. Eileen has been creating with fabric, fiber and other materials since she was a child and recently obtained a certificate in patternmaking from the […]
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