Welcoming Fear Retreat: Embracing Fear through Nature and Presence

The Welcoming Fear retreat focused on bringing the AOA community's work into nature and physically embodied experiences with fear. It aimed to invite people to sensuously sit with and learn about how their body, emotions, and mind process fear. Unlike a goal-oriented activity, this retreat was slow, deliberate, and not about just jumping off a cliff, but rather about noticing and understanding fear.