Meet Our Team!
We are mavens of transformational retreats. We love to attend them, design them, lead them, hype them - we’re obsessed.
We are convinced of the life changing capacity for powerful retreats to change the world.
Our small team of professionals are passionate about helping these spaces come to life with your wisdom and your community.
Holly Roach
- founder & president -
Holly comes to this work with three decades of project management, communications and organizing experience. She was a location scout for the film industry in New Mexico for nearly a decade (setting up her own sustainable production company), she moved to western North Carolina in 2015 and fell in love with it’s wild places, it’s rivers and it’s lakes.
Holly’s life experience has led her to a life-long study of trauma and it’s effects on the personal, family systems and collective levels of well being.
Holly’s higher education has has been a powerful intersection of the disciplines of social justice and community organizing AND contemplative education.
Holly designed and facilitates an annual social justice training for adults at Queen’s University in Charlotte, NC.
Sara A. Murphy, PhD
- content writer -
A blend of Irish and Iranian heritage, she loves traveling almost as much as she likes books. She has a PhD in English Literature from Columbia University, an M.Phil in English from the University of Edinburgh, and a BA (Hon) in English from the University of Pennsylvania.
She is currently a freelance writer and editor based in the mountains of western North Carolina when not abroad. She has written on climate change, travel, health and fitness, and social justice, among other topics.