Inspiration & Expanded States for Creatives
A 5-Day Creativity Retreat in Nature
Change the way you create by changing your state of mind.
What This Retreat Is About
A focused retreat for changing the way you create by changing your state of mind.
Through creative experimentation, meditation, nature, guided practice, community, rest, and expanded-state work, you’ll step outside your usual routines and create the conditions for new ideas, perspective, flow, and direction.
The process is informed by the neuroscience of attention, self-monitoring, associative thinking, embodiment, and creative flow.
There is time to make, explore, learn, wander, rest, connect, and get inspired.
Who It’s For
Creatives ready for movement.
You do not need to arrive with a problem, a project, or a clear answer.
What We’ll Do
Change the conditions for creativity.
The retreat moves between active experimentation, receptive states, guided inquiry, nature, rest, and shared creative experience.
Creative Experimentation
Play, improvise, try unfamiliar approaches, and explore new ways of making.
Meditation
Quiet mental noise, widen attention, and become more receptive to ideas, intuition, and insight.
Expanded States & Plant Allies
Explore changes in perception, association, feeling, and attention as tools for creative discovery.
Nature, Rest & Incubation
Walk, wander, slow down, and give your mind enough space for ideas to reorganize and emerge.
Guided Creative Practice
Use exercises, questions, prompts, and coaching to explore your work and move your creative process forward.
Community
Share meals, ideas, conversation, experimentation, and creative time with other people who care about making things.
What You’ll Leave With
More room to move.
The aim is not to give you a prescribed creative answer, but to leave you with greater access to your own process, direction, and momentum.
Before the Retreat
Your Personal Creative Assessment
Before the retreat, you’ll have a personal coaching and creative assessment to clarify:
- Where you are now
- What you’re working toward
- What you want more of creatively
- What may be getting in the way
- What you most want to explore or discover
We’ll use that conversation to help shape your retreat experience around your actual creative needs and interests.
A multidisciplinary team
Your facilitators
The retreat brings together experience in creativity, meditation, embodiment, consciousness, music, altered states, group process, and integration.
Meditation · Embodiment · Group Process
Kate Spear
Kate brings more than 25 years of study and practice in consciousness, mindfulness, embodiment, and transformational leadership. She holds a B.S. in Psychology and Gender Studies from Penn State University and is trained across meditation, yoga, somatic practice, leadership development, and consciousness-based facilitation.
She spent eight years living in an ashram community, studying with master teachers and sustaining a daily meditation practice. Her work integrates contemplative practice, somatic awareness, personal inquiry, and grounded group process.
Kate is also an executive coach, entrepreneur, retreat leader, conscious-business consultant, and adjunct faculty member at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine.
Altered States · Spirituality · Music
Chris Mandel
Chris has been exploring music, spirituality, and psychedelics for more than 25 years. He holds a Master’s degree in Religious Studies from the Iliff School of Theology, where his work examined spirituality in jazz.
He is trained in spiritual energy work and Vipassana meditation and began participating in psychedelic music gatherings in 2005. He has since helped organize experiences centered on music, altered states, contemplative practice, and spiritual inquiry.
Creativity · Consciousness · Music
Jeremy Kurn
Jeremy is the founder of Reflexivity Studios and a musician, teacher, and creative practitioner whose work explores the relationship between creativity, expanded states, flow, perception, and self-directed change.
His approach draws from decades of professional musicianship and improvisation, along with more than 25 years of meditation, expanded-state work, philosophical study, and embodied exploration.
His teaching focuses on how shifts in attention, perception, self-monitoring, feeling, and state of mind can open new possibilities for creative thought, insight, expression, and agency.
Retreat Fee
Everything in one retreat.
$1,500
Per person. Includes lodging, three meals per day, expanded state ceremony, private coaching, creative assessment and guided retreat programming on 77 acres of wilderness.
Nov. 4–8, 2026 · Southern Oregon
Ready for a new way forward?
Whether you want dedicated time to create, fresh inspiration, a deeper experience of flow, or help moving through a creative block, this retreat is designed to give you space to explore, reset, and move forward.
Questions about travel, lodging, the application process, or whether this retreat would be a good fit? Reach out before you apply.