IN-PERSON GATHERING
April 30 - May 3, 2026
Western North Carolina
Re|Generation Is Relational
For four days, practitioners, leaders, and members of the With Life Community committed to regenerative leadership in economics, finance, and organizational design will gather in person in Western North Carolina to explore what it means to design systems in service to life.
Hosted by With Life, in partnership with nRhythm and Capital Institute, this gathering invites us to deepen relationship, to work in place rather than at a distance, and to expand our collective capacity to rethink and regenerate the economic and organizational systems that influence our shared future.
Why Gather Now?
From Digital Connection to Embodied Participation
For more than a decade, Capital Institute and nRhythm have cultivated regenerative economics and living systems leadership across industries and geographies. With Life emerged as a shared platform for learning, practice, and community.
Much of that work has happened online — and it has mattered. Our digital community is strong. Relationships, collaborations, businesses, and at least one marriage have grown from it!
And yet, something essential cannot fully emerge through screens.
Over the past year, we experimented with in-person gatherings in different cities and witnessed the subtle deepening that happens when people simply share space. What our community values most is connection. This retreat is our response.
There is a difference between hearing ideas and experiencing them together. A difference between discussing regenerative systems and practicing regeneration in how we gather.
The time feels right to come together in person, to strengthen existing bonds, welcome new members, and explore what becomes possible when regeneration moves from abstraction into shared experience.
We are not aiming for scale. We are cultivating alignment. This gathering is intentionally limited in size.
The Experience
Four days of being together, thinking together, and working together.
Optional Dinner & Social Connection
Thursday, April 30 | 6pm
Join us at Seasons Restaurant, part of Highland Lake Inn & Resort, just a 10-minute walk (or quick drive) from our venue. Come for dinner, drinks, and relaxed conversation as we ease into the weekend together.
Re|Imagining Economics & Finance
with John Fullerton of Capital Institute
Friday, May 1 | 9am - 4pm
A day with John exploring the foundations of regenerative economics and finance. We’ll ground in first principles, examine what’s breaking in today’s system, and imagine what becomes possible when capital serves life.
Re|Designing Systems
with Tré Cates, Natalie Masters, & the nRhythm Team
Saturday, May 2 | 9am - 4pm
A hands-on exploration of how to design social systems the way life works. Expect frameworks, small-group work, collaborative dialogue, and space to apply living systems principles to your own context.
Integration & Re|Generation
Sunday, May 3 | 9am - 12pm
A spacious closing morning for integration, open Q&A, and reflection. What has emerged? What feels alive now? We’ll harvest insight and notice what feels ready to move forward.
Meals & Breaks
Coffee, tea, water, and snacks will be available throughout the gathering. You’re welcome to bring your own, or something to share. Light lunch is included on Friday and Saturday.
Friday and Saturday afternoons are open space — for connection, quiet reflection, time in nature, or a short trip into town.
Dinner will be served in the Sanctuary Building at 7pm on Friday and Saturday. After dinner, we’ll gather around the campfire. Bring instruments, your voice, your stories.
Pick up a bagged lunch on your way out Sunday. You’ll want fuel as you carry the experience forward.
The Venue
Rooted in place. Crafted with intention.
A Place Designed for Connection
Nestled in Flat Rock, North Carolina, our gathering will take place in the Sanctuary at Highland Lake Cove, a handcrafted retreat space created by a devoted community of practice who had been studying and meditating together for more than twenty years.
Built by hand, together, the act of construction became an extension of their shared practice.
That presence remains palpable today. Many visitors describe a quiet attentiveness in the space itself.
When a place is created with such care and intention, it fosters belonging. It holds depth. It supports real conversation.
We’re honored to gather here.
Location
Flat Rock, North Carolina
• 10 minutes from Hendersonville
• 22 minutes from Asheville Regional Airport (AVL)
• 44 minutes from downtown Asheville
Close enough to access easily, far enough to feel nestled into the landscape.
Lodging Options
We’ve arranged multiple options to support different preferences and price points.
Highland Lake Inn & Resort
Just next door, the Inn offers a range of private lodging options. The Lodge rooms typically range from $160–$170 per night. Additional cottages and suites are available. Book this option directly through Highland Lake Inn & Resort.
On-Site Retreat House
Hostel-style accommodations with shared bathrooms. Simple, community-oriented, and steps from the Sanctuary. $90 per room, per night. Book this option through With Life once you secure your spot at the retreat.
Camping On-Site
For those who prefer to be closer to the land, limited camping spaces are available at $25 per site, per night. Book this option through With Life once you secure your spot at the retreat.
Who This Gathering Is For
We are learning to work the way life works.
This retreat is for people who care deeply about the future of our economic, organizational, and ecological systems and who want to engage that work through shared inquiry and relationship.
You might be an ecologist or economist, a designer or investor, an inventor, a builder, a dreamer, or a doer. If you feel the urgency of this moment and are searching for thoughtful, grounded companions, there is space for you here.
You might be curious about what regeneration actually means in practice. You might be a long-time student of living systems thinking. You might already be part of the With Life community. Or you may be brand new.
This is not a religious gathering. It is not a fast-paced conference. It is not a performance. We are co-creating space to build our collective capacity to redesign our social systems in service to life.
Living systems are complex. The challenges we face are layered and dynamic. What we do know is that life thrives in relationship. So that's where we begin.
If you value clear thinking, honest dialogue, and meaningful connection, you will likely feel at home in this room.
Join Us in Asheville
An intentional gathering. Re|Generation is relational.
From April 30–May 3, 2026, we will gather in Flat Rock, North Carolina for four days of practical exploration, meaningful dialogue, and real connection.
If this feels aligned, we invite you to commit.
Registration Includes
All scheduled sessions Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
Dinner Friday and Saturday
Light lunch and refreshments Friday and Saturday
Bagged lunch on Sunday
Coffee, tea, and snacks throughout
Evening bonfires and informal connection time
(Lodging is reserved separately.)
Secure Your Spot
The With Life Asheville Retreat starts April 30, 2026.
Register today to secure your spot.
Capacity is Limited.
*Please note that the With Life Asheville Retreat is discounted for up to 12 Fellows and Collective members.
Use discount code provided via email to receive your discount.
2026 With Life Asheville Retreat
April 30, 2026 - May 3, 2026
Early Commitment Rate
Choose this option to register for the With Life Asheville Retreat on or before March 19 and receive $100 off your retreat registration.
Early commitment pricing is available through March 19, 2026.
$475 USD
Available through March 19th
Standard Rate (Beginning March 20)
Choose this option to register for the With Life Asheville Retreat at the Standard Rate (Starting March 20).
$575 USD
