Programs
Would you like to lead a retreat or a workshop at the Valle Crucis Conference Center? Send a note to Margaret Love at director@vcconferences.org. We'll be looking for your thoughts on group size, number of days (one-day retreat, multi-day, etc.), number of meals, etc. plus a short description of your program idea.
2025 Programs At A Glance
A Quiet Retreat for Advent
Saturday, November 22, 2025
$60 full program
2026 Programs At A Glance
Soul Sauntering: A Celtic Retreat
Sunday-Friday, February 1-6, 2026
$748 full program
A Quiet Advent Retreat
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Katerina Whitley
Crab Orchard Hall
Full program $60
Our annual Advent Retreat will take place on Saturday, November 22, in Crab Orchard Hall, Valle
Crucis Conference Center, from 10:00 to 2:00. Everyone is invited, men, women, and young
people. Lunch and snacks will be provided.
Advent fills us with the thrill of anticipation for the joy that is to come. We will experience this
together with those who were present and waiting more than 2000 years ago. Whom were they expecting? What was it they were seeing? How did they greet the mind-opening promises given to them?
We will also look at the promises and follow them in awe, accompanied by angel song, to a humble manger.
Register here for the Advent retreat.
Soul Sauntering: A Celtic Retreat
Sunday-Friday, February 1-6, 2026
The Rev. Karla Woggon
$748 full program
A sacred retreat to explore the liminal, threshold, in-between spaces and places in your life.
Honor the Celtic feast of Imbolc, marking the midpoint between winter and spring, and St. Brigid, the saint of liminal threshold places. Reflect on transitional moments through various spiritual practices, including contemplative walking in nature, group and individual reflection, dream work, reflection on the sacred stories of our lives, and creative expression. Nature will serve as our Spiritual Director, guiding us into deeper awareness and connection. The retreat offers a sacred space to honor transition, discover new insights, and embrace the grace found in the in-between moments of life. Come and find your place in the sacred flow of nature and spirit.
Facilitated by The Rev. Karla Woggon, a retired Episcopal Priest and seasoned spiritual director, dream worker, pilgrimage leader, and lover of stories.
Lodging will be in the Inn and retreat will be in Johnson Hall. There are single and double occupancy as well as commuter pricing options available.