SURPRISE FARM RETREAT CENTER
Healing Nature,
Healing Ourselves
Surprise Farm Retreat Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit bridging humans and nature for the well-being of both. We offer free weekly meditation sessions, monthly fireside storytelling and jam sessions, and nature programs for adults and youth, as well as pay-what-you-can mindfulness, creativity, and sustainability workshops. With your donation, we can continue to provide these programs at no- or sliding-scale cost to the community -- because presence is a right, not a luxury.
Let's get everyone outdoors.
Your gift will help us continue and expand our free and low-cost nature, mindfulness, and creativity programs. Donations accepted via credit/debit card and Paypal.
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"If the self is expanded to include the natural world, behavior leading to destruction of this world will be experienced as self-destruction."
- Defining Goal, 1990 Harvard University "Psychology as if the Whole Earth Mattered" Conference
Honoring
Youth And Planet
Not every child in San Diego County grows up with consistent access to nature or mindfulness techniques. We facilitate friendly and engaging free experiences to encourage
a lifelong love of and respect for
self, others, and planet.
Space for the Sacred
In the contemporary world, many things compete for our attention; work, traffic, news, and ever-present technology can leave us feeling disoriented and scattered.
Surprise Farm Retreat Center carves out spaces for authentic connection to ourselves, others, and the present moment, allowing us to return to everyday life with clarity. At SFRC you might learn how to disconnect from your constant stream of thoughts through meditation, play in an arts workshop, and get in touch with the soil through volunteering at our organic farm, all in one day.
Cultivating a Love
for Nature
We believe that curbing climate change, as well as the degradation of our planet's beautiful ecosystems and creatures, requires a change in values: from "I" to "we," from short-term gains to long-term sustainability, from lives of ego to lives of wholeness.
To change humanity's actions, we must change our values. That starts with awakening people to the idea that we are not separate from nature; we are one with it, and can be a powerful force for its healing. We must make nature a loved one, as it already is for so many -- for people fight fiercely for their loved ones.