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Summer Solstice Gathering 2025
June 19, 2025
A Solstice Like No Other
A place to gather. A place to belong. A place to co-create the future.
📍 June 19-22, 2025 | Highland Lake Cove, NC
This is an invitation to those who carry questions about how we might live differently – together.
Highland Lake Cove isn't merely a backdrop for our gathering. It's a living testament to what becomes possible when land and people weave their stories together with care.
Over four days, we'll share meals cooked with intention, walk forest paths in conversation, sit in circle with elders whose hands have shaped communities before us, and make space for the quiet wisdom of children.
This isn't a workshop or a conference. It's a threshold crossing. A chance to feel what real belonging tastes like when we remove the barriers between our public and private selves.
What awaits you:
- Dawn movement practices by the lake
- Meals prepared and shared as ceremony
- Conversations that cut through the noise of our times
- Nights of music, story, and starlight
- The rare gift of multi-generational presence
We believe the most powerful learning happens when knowledge travels horizontally – from person to person – rather than from stage to audience.
Come as you are. Bring what you know. Leave changed.
Accommodation to be self-organized. Suggestions provided upon registration.
Choose Your Experience
🥾 Full Weekend Pass: Includes all sessions starting Thursday through Sunday, Brunch Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Dinners Friday, Saturday - Accommodation not included, see options for self organization below. Suggested Donation: $700 (min $500)
🌿 Children’s Program | ages 0-12 Nature-based play & learning for the next generation. Includes everything else from full weekend pass. Donation: $200
The Rhythm of Return: Building Sangha
In a world of polarization, disconnection, and transactional relationships, we are building something different. Something enduring.
When we gather once, something beautiful happens. When we return season after season, we create Sangha – a community bound by intention and genuine connection.
This gathering stands as quiet resistance to the currents that pull us apart.
In our Sangha, young voices grow stronger. Elder insights find new soil. Conversations deepen through seasons.
Each summer, this circle widens—not as numbers to count, but as a living ecosystem of relationships that witness each other's becoming.
Come join what's growing at Highland Lake. Return home changed.
The Flow of the Weekend
Thursday, June 19 | Open the Circle
- Arrivals & Settling In
- 7pm : Fire Circle Ceremony – Opening reflections under the stars
Friday, June 20 | Rooting & Expanding
- Morning Movement & Breathwork
- 11 am : Brunch at HLC Pavillon
- Exploring the Land: Forest saunters, lake swims, visioning walks, optional Workshops & Talks: The Future of Learning, Family Systems
- 6pm : Generations Over Dinner (GOD Event): A curated intergenerational dinner led by Hope & Julian—a dialogue across time and wisdom.
- Fireside Music & Storytelling
Saturday, June 21 | Play, Presence & Generations Over Dinner
- Play by the Lake: Kayaking, canoeing, wild swimming, games
- Saunters & Storytelling: Unscripted conversations, creative exchanges
- Evening Gathering & Dinner: A feast and a question—What does it take to create real, living community? We'll have speakers, panels and delicious food.
- Fire Circle & Music
Sunday, June 22 | Closing the Circle
- Slow, Nourishing Brunch
- Integration & Next Steps: Carrying the weekend forward into life
What People Are Saying
🌟 “I came to Generations Over Dinner not knowing what to expect. I left with deep friendships, renewed energy, and a vision for how I want to live moving forward.”
🌟 “This isn’t just an event. It’s a return to something essential.”
🌟 “Hope and Julian have a way of weaving the right people together. This is the kind of space that changes you.”
Watch LIVE testimonials from last year's dinner HERE
Why Now?
Because the world isn’t waiting.
Because the best conversations happen when we show up.
Because this is more than an event—it’s a movement.
🚀 Claim your spot before tickets sell out.
(And bring someone who needs to be in the room.)
Suggestions for Your Accommodations:
FlatRock Mountain Inn & Suites
Dorm style rooms at Highland Lake Cove property. Contact: amy@highlandlake.com
Who gets to say they have 'hope' in their corner? Perhaps you?
Let’s build your vision for the world. Book a discovery call now.
