Group Experiences
There are all kinds of reasons to gather.
Our lives can get pretty full, and there aren't always many opportunities to step outside our usual circles, meet new people and simply remember what it is like to spend time together.
Birch + Bloom gatherings create room for that. Each one is shaped around a question, theme or moment in time. We might explore leadership, belonging, grief, creativity, change or the season we're moving through. What brings us together will change, and so will what we do while we're there.
Sometimes we gather for an afternoon, sometimes a full day and sometimes a few days. There might be conversation, creativity, time outside, shared food and quiet reflection. There will also be room for things that can't be planned — an unexpected conversation, a new connection, laughter, an idea that stays with you.
You don't need to know anyone before you come. You don't need a particular title or experience, and you don't need to arrive ready to share anything deeply personal.
There is room for you to participate in your own way.
Upcoming Gatherings
The Alchemist's Table
Early November, North Bay Area
Over an afternoon together, we’ll build relationships with the land and one another, and reconnect with ourselves through reflection, creativity, seasonal practices and shared food.
There is something that can happen when we step outside our usual routines and bring people, place, food, questions, creativity and attention together. It’s happened in every Birch + Bloom gathering. We see things differently. A conversation opens something in us. Ideas take shape.
This experience is meant to give you space to retreat, question, revel in presence and good company, and see what happens when you step outside the usual for a little while.
That’s the alchemy at the heart of this gathering.
You don’t need to arrive with a plan, a particular question or anything figured out. Just come as you are.
It will be intimate, a little unexpected and designed with a lot of care.
The gathering will also include a private one-to-one integration session with me in the two weeks following, giving you space to return to anything that surfaced or that you want to spend more time with.
Full details will be announced soon.
Interested? Join the waitlist below to be the first to know when tickets are available. Space will be limited.
Share your idea.
Not every gathering begins with an event I have planned.
Sometimes an organization, team or community comes with a question, a transition, something that feels stuck, or simply a sense that the usual meeting isn't going to get them where they need to go.
We can create something together.
It might be a facilitated conversation, a leadership gathering, a strategic or community process, a day away from the usual environment, or something we haven't imagined yet.
I don't begin with a fixed format. We begin with what you're trying to understand, move through or make possible — and design from there.
Past Gatherings
Emergence & Intention — Leadership Circle
February 2026
A winter gathering exploring what was beginning to emerge with the shift of the seasons and what we wanted to carry forward with greater intention. Through visualization, journaling, reflection and creative practice, we made room to notice what nature might reflect back to us.
Leadership Circle
October 2025
Our first Leadership Circle brought a small group together for a full day away from the usual pace of work. Through conversation, reflection, creative practices and time outside, we explored how we lead, what shapes us and some of the questions we don't always have the space to explore.
Embers of Grief - 4 day retreat
October 2025
Co-facilitated with Melissa Sulley, this intimate, four day retreat was created for people navigating grief in all forms. Seven of us spent several days together making room for grief in all its complexity through conversation, reflection, creativity, time in nature, shared meals and connection.
From people who have gathered with us
““A beautiful day, with such great people. It was truly a refreshing change of pace. [There were] inspiring conversations with room to move around and participate in my own unique ways.””
Leadership Circle Participant““Cristin created a space where a group of strangers came together with trust, vulnerability and authenticity. Every detail was considered before, during and after our time together and that attention allowed me to experience an intense and profound period of growth that I will build upon with intention and gratitude...thank you for holding a gentle, kind, wise, thoughtful space for us to connect.””
Maryann Kerr, Leadership Circle participant““I was blown away by the experience.””
Leadership Circle Participant““Genuine trust was established among the group fairly immediately and the discussions and connections that followed were open, honest and authentic. I learned a lot about myself, about group dynamics in leadership, and about the value of slowing down and making meaningful, lasting connections.””
Leadership Circle Participant““The day was magical. If I had to choose the individuals that attended the circle, I don’t believe I could have picked such a courageous, brave, intelligent and caring group!””
Leadership Circle Participant““I already can't wait to participate in the next circle””
Leadership Circle Participant