An Interdependence Retreat Center
Integrating Head & Heart
Head & Heart
Remembering Our Interdependence
Focused on neurobiology, ecology, community, and spirit, Head & Heart is a space where people gather to reclaim intuition and remember the truth of interconnection
to The Land, The Body, And Your Community
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to unite science and spirituality. Our collective of practitioners utilize the space and ethos of Head & Heart to share their unique gifts with the community. We host practitioners from around the nation, supporting events that cultivate compassion, resilience, and courage in the midst of busy lives.
Head & Heart is the brick and mortar that has come from the Compassion Cultivation Cycle™, created by founder Ellen Slater. The Cycle begins with a shift from the lens of disorder to the lens of adaptation, and a simple idea: we are living in a culture suffering from the Amnesia of Interdependence. It is a cycle of rupture and repair.
This space is intended to offer you a doorway into repairing the stress and disconnect that stem from this cultural forgetting.
RETREAT YOURSELF
Host a retreat at Head & Heart. Whether you need a space for a few hours or multiple days, we can support you. With cabins and hotels directly across the street, 10 windows, and the river out our door, Head & Heart is a majestic retreat center. We offer connections to local farm-to-table chefs, healers, and practitioners. Head & Heart is a sacred space — contact us to learn more.
CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
Our classes offer multiple wellness modalities, including crystal bowls, yoga, mindfulness, & nervous system restoration. Blending the science with the sacred, our center is interdisciplinary and rooted in the truth of interdependence. Come harmonize science and spirituality to build strength, flexibility, and mindfulness to your life.
THE HEAD & HEART COLLECTIVE
Head and Heart is a cooperative space of collaborative practitioners supported in offering their unique gifts to the community. The threshold of becoming a collective member is participation in community. We support one another, refer to one another, and lean on the truths of interdependence. Together we learn and teach, the latest research alongside ancient wisdom.
Integration
we focus on weaving the latest research with the oldest traditions, and supporting practitioners in sharing their gifts.
THE Head & Heart Collective
An interdisciplinary team of practitioners
Meet Our Founder
ELLEN SLATER | LICSW, YT-200
With more than two decades of experience in clinical social work, yoga and mindfulness training, Ellen’s had the privilege of learning from neuroscientists, researchers, psychologists and indigenous communities across the globe. From this experience she has developed an evidence baed rupture and repair framework: The Compassion Cultivation Cycle™: A Somatic Certificate Program
Through her interdisciplinary experiences and working in hospitals, community clinics, incarceration systems, schools, and private practice, Ellen discovered that health is only created with a multidimensional, embodied approach. So she created Head & Heart, a space where practitioners of movement, sound, nutrition, medicine, mental health, and more, can gather and share their wisdom.
You can learn more about Ellen’s training and approach here. Discover her online membership here: This Mindful Life.