• Accommodation at Fortna is provided to all the participants. The standard accommodation is in double rooms. Single rooms are available up to the capacity and will be offered primarily to the participants with health issues and on the first come first served basis. Each bathroom is shared between two neighbouring rooms.
• Common meals are provided from Thurday diner to Sunday lunch. (kindly tell us about any allergies and dietary restriction in the registration form).

Registration and price

The price for the 4-day workshop is 250 EUR / 6500 CZK. This covers acommodation, meals and part of the travel expenses of the facilitators.

• Additional contributions are appreciated and will be shared between Fortna and the facilitators, who otherwise decided to support the workshop in the Czech Republic by their voluntary work.

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• We kindly ask the couples to submit a registration form for each of them personally.

Cancellation policy

• up to 21 days before the event – 100 % course fee will be refunded
• 20-1 day before the event – 50 % course fee will be refunden
• in case of no show full fee will be charged

Facilitation team

Rev. Cynthia Brix, Ph.D. (hon)

is co-founder of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International. An ordained interfaith minister with a background in women’s issues and racial diversity, she co-organized seven international conferences on interspirituality, including two on women’s spiritual leadership across diverse religious and indigenous traditions. Cynthia holds an honorary doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies, M.A. in wellness and gerontology, M.Div., and is certified in Grof Breathwork. She is an Evolutionary Leader and co-author of Gender Equity & Reconciliation: Thirty Years of Healing the Most Ancient Wound in the Human Family and Women Healing Women: A Model of Hope for Oppressed Women Everywhere.

William Keepin, Ph.D.

is co-founder of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International and the Satyana Institute. A mathematical physicist with training in contemplative spirituality and transpersonal psychology, his research on global warming and sustainable energy influenced international environmental policy. He has published widely on environmental science, quantum physics, ecology, archetypal cosmology, comparative mysticism, divine feminine theology, and principles of social change leadership. He is an Evolutionary Leader, a Findhorn Foundation Fellow, and Board member of the Grof Legacy Project. His previous books include Gender Equity & Reconciliation: Thirty Years of Healing the Most Ancient Wound in the Human Family, Song of the Earth, and Belonging to God: Spirituality, Science, and a Universal Path of Divine Love.

Desireé English, B.A.

is a Senior Trainer and GERI Director of Training, based in Cape Town, South Africa. Desireé has conducted GERI programs in South Africa, Kenya, India, Egypt, and the United States. She has spent most of her 25-year career creating and holding spaces for learning and development for individuals and groups including local government, corporates and NGOs, and is strongly grounded in her purpose of facilitating healing and empowerment within communities, especially working with women and youth.  She is a Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) Certification Trainer, Integrative Trauma Healing Practitioner, and independent learning and development consultant. She is a contributing author of the book Gender Equity and Reconciliation: Thirty Years of Healing the Most Ancient Wound in the Human Family.

Garrett Evans, B.S.

is International Program Officer and Trainer for GERI, where he has worked full time since 2017. He has contributed greatly to developing the GERI infrastructure, programs, research, marketing, and was instrumental in developing GERI online programs and training. He received his degree in conflict resolution from Portland State University. Garrett began intensive practice in the Zen Buddhist tradition in 2011. Through GERI, he feels called to combine his love for the world’s contemplative spiritual traditions with healing and reconciliation work. He is also a contributing author to Gender Equity & Reconciliation: Thirty Years of Healing the Most Ancient Wound in the Human Family

More on the GERI Methodology:

Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI) applies principles of Truth and Reconciliation to open new pathways to healing, respect, compassion, and genuine collaboration between men and women and, across the genders.

• Creates safe forums to jointly confront dysfunctional gender and sexuality conditioning
• Facilitates skillful truth-telling, acknowledgment, and deep listening in relation to participants’ personal histories
• Fosters new levels of mutual awareness, sensitivity, and transformational healing between women and men and across the genders
• Cultivates respectful and authentic dialogue on gender, sexuality, and various key intersectionalities
• Opens new ways and possibilities in gender relations – imbued with mutual appreciation, compassion, and trust
• Builds auspicious potential for transforming gender injustice, and establishing “beloved community”

Developed over 32 years and conducted with thousands of participants across six continents, the GERI process was formally endorsed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2013. The GERI methodology grew in the Christian environment, this however does not pose any requirements on the participants of the workshop in terms of their religion of confession.

More information on GERI can be also found in the Flyer and on the GERI website.

Photo source: GERI website