Remember, repair, reconnect:

An extended land-based workshop with Susan Raffo

Registration Opens July 20th, 2026

November 18-22th 2026

Creiff Hills Retreat Centre
Puslinch, ON, Canada
Hatiwendaronk, Anishinaabe, & Haudenosaunee Land

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Registration Opens July 20th, 2026

This is a workshop I have been building since walking across Turtle Island in 2024. It is not a workshop that claims to be the answer to five hundred+ years of colonization, but it is a workshop that wants to be a practice.

For those of us whose people long ago forgot that we are only one small part of the land that is our kin, how do we find our way back into something that is good? How are we part of something that might mean our descendants are a little less lost than their recent ancestors?

Our time together practices three different layers of relationship with land: the physical sensed truth of relationship, the memories of our people’s generational relationship to land, and the clarity of repair and accountability that seeks to change what is possible for all of our descendants. The majority of my ancestors are European Catholics who crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the mid- to late 19th century. Some of them brought land memory with them that lasted until my lifetime and some did not. This life experience is what shapes this workshop even as this might not be your people’s story.

Participants can expect a mix of group work and solo work,  brief directions that invite you to go off and see what happens and then sometimes highly choreographed practices. At least one morning where you can sleep in if you need to and another where you will be invited to rise with the sun. An agenda that will likely change as we come together in real time and not in strategy time.

For those registering, you will receive a guide for pre-work about a month before we gather.
Doing this pre-work will help deepen our short time together. After all, moving at the speed of the land is not the same as moving at the speed of a workshop.

This workshop will have a maximum of 24 participants.

A portion of what you pay for this workshop will go directly towards projects that support Indigenous land and cultural work and reclamation.

If you have any questions about the content of the workshop, please reach out to Susan Raffo at raffomn@pm.me.

For questions about logistics and registration, please reach out to: assistant@wildbody.ca

Creiff Hills retreat centre covers 250 acres of forest, trails, and farmland. Located just an hour from the Toronto Airport, and 30 minutes from Guelph and Hamilton. Our workshop home occupies the ancestral lands of the Hatiwendaronk, the Anishinaabe, and Haudenosaunee peoples and is on the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit.

Owned and operated by the Presbyterian Church of Canada, the centre welcomes people from all faiths and traditions. Participants will have access to trails and our daily gatherings will take place inside one of the centres’ conference hall.

You can learn more about our location here: https://crieffhills.com/

"There is work to do. Deep work that deals directly with how histories of violence are held in the cells of the body. There is also deep work to do about thinking we know what transformation or liberation must look like."

— Susan Raffo, Liberated to the Bone: Histories, Bodies, Futures”

ABOUT SUSAN RAFFO

Susan Raffo is a bodyworker, cultural worker and writer who focuses her work through the lens of healing justice.

Learn more about her here.

Pricing

There are a variety of pricing options available. Residential retreats include three daily meals and four nights accomodation in a single or shared room. Commuter rates are also available. We offer tiered pricing based on level of financial access and need.

Deadline to register is October 28th, 2026

Check-In

9:00 – 9:30am

Group Activity

11:00am

Lunch Break

12:30pm

Creative Workshop

2:00pm

Dinner

6:30pm