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Tending the Flame™: A Resilience Retreat + Workshop (April 24–26, 2026)

Provided by MCMS Administration

A Weekend to Pause and Refill

Healthcare asks so much of us—our time, attention, stamina, and heart. If you’ve been carrying a lot lately, this is a gentle reminder: you deserve support, too.

Tending the Flame™ Retreat & Training Workshop is a 2.5-day experience in personal and professional resilience created for clinicians and healthcare paraprofessionals. This is not another conference. It’s a restorative pause—an intentional space to breathe, reflect, and reconnect with meaning, alongside a community that understands the realities of caring for others.

We’re especially proud to share that the retreat will be led by Evangeline Andarsio, MD (RISHI Director), who is also an MCMS Board Member and Past President.

What you can expect

Participants can look forward to a thoughtful, supportive experience that includes:

• A relaxed environment designed to awaken respite and peace
• Guided reflection through experiential exercises, symbolism, narrative, journaling, generous listening, and small-group sharing
• Practical ways to strengthen compassion and resilience
• Connection with a professional community where you don’t have to explain the hard parts

Dates, times, and location

April 24–26, 2026

• Retreat: Friday & Saturday, 9:30 AM–5:30 PM
• Training: Sunday, 9:30 AM–12:30 PM
  Location: Home2 Suites by Hilton (Dayton/Centerville area)

Registration + deadline

Applications are due March 23, 2026.
Additional details can be found here: https://rishiprograms.org/event/2026-tending-the-flame-retreat-training-workshop/

Register here: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8547680/2026-RISHI-s-Tending-the-Flame-Retreat-Application

Cost

• Clinicians: $1800 (retreat + Sunday training) or $1500 (retreat only)
• Graduate Program Learners: $975 (retreat only; no training)

Questions?

Email RJohnson@PureHealthcare.org or call 326.222.3579.

If you’ve been waiting for the “right time” to care for yourself the way you care for everyone else—this may be it. We hope you’ll consider joining.