American Medical Student Association

Regional and Local Humanistic Medicine Retreat Resources

RETREAT PLANNING GUIDE

• Vision and Sacred Space 
• Building a Leadership Team 
• Faculty Sponsors and Faculty Mentors 
• Choosing a Site 
• Site Selection and Timeline 
• Logistics and Schedule 
• Money Matters - Show me the Money 
• Advertising 

OTHER RESOURCES / PAST RETREAT SAMPLES

• Physician Mentor Letter - Provides a sample letter to prospective mentors, can be used as a blank letter with few changes, also contains a national COH retreat recap.
• Sample Retreat Flyer - Contains a short summary about HuMed, and retreat goals. With few minor "fill ins" can be used for e-mailing information about a regional retreat to medical schools.
• Sample Retreat Application 
• Sample Retreat Schedule
• Sample Liability Waiver 
• 1st Annual Univ of Florida Circle of Healers Retreat 
• 2004 Circle of Healers Region 2 Retreat Summary (PDF)

LINKS

• American Camping Association
  Search for camps that rent to groups. Search by state or region and narrow your search to places that allow kitchen use, for example.
• Find the Divine *****
  Contains a wide variety of information about retreats, regional and state retreat centers, books about retreats with link to Amazon, useful links, etc
• Retreats Connection ****
  Excellent retreat site search engine with retreat centers in each state
• Retreats Online ***
• Global Retreats ***
• NE Holistic Retreats & Retreat Centers **
  Retreat sites in VT, AZ, ME, MA and CT
• All About Retreats **