What it is

Ember Centre’s Therapeutic Group Retreats offer a chance to disconnect to reconnect—with yourself, with others, and with nature. These retreats are designed to support deep rest, reflection, and healing through guided therapeutic experiences in nature.

Whether your group is navigating grief, burnout, life transitions, or simply craving meaningful connection, our retreats are a chance to step away from daily demands and reorient toward what matters most. Each retreat is guided by facilitators who are trauma-informed, relational, and grounded in therapeutic principles, blending group facilitation, individual reflection, and land-based healing.

We tailor these retreats for a variety of groups, including:

• Grieving individuals or families

• Youth in care or involved in justice systems

• Human-service professionals and frontline teams

• Families or chosen families

• Healing circles and community-based groups

• Friend Groups 

• Teams
  

What it looks like at Ember Centre

Our group retreats are co-created with care and intention, shaped by the unique needs of your group or community. Retreats can take place over a single day or span a weekend or longer. Experiences may include:

• Grief and healing circles in nature

• Team-building and restoration retreats

• Youth identity and belonging retreats

• Guided camping or land-based healing weekends
  

Retreats are facilitated by skilled, facilitators with a counselling background who bring a lens of attachment, trauma-awareness, and cultural humility. We prioritize emotional safety, choice, and a balance of structure and spaciousness—creating room for both therapeutic depth and rest.

Benefits

• Custom-fit support: Services are designed around your needs, not standardized formats.

• Connection to nature: Reconnect with the natural world as part of your healing journey.

• Culturally responsive and inclusive: Our team honours the diverse backgrounds and lived experiences of participants.

• Supports community and belonging: Many experiences focus on shared healing, peer support, and meaningful group connection.

• Safe spaces for processing: Whether you're grieving, healing, or looking to reconnect, these experiences offer space to be seen, heard, and held.