2023 Gay Coach Conference

Contents:

• GAY FREEDOM CAMP
• SUMMER GAY SPIR CAMP
• GAY FREEDOM CAMP
• I VISED A GAY MEN’S RETREAT CENTER—HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED
• GAY FREEDOM CAMP
• GAY MEN'S RETREAT EXPERIENCTONY LANIER AND LORENZO TAYLORJUNE 3, 2021IN APRIL, I ATTEND A GAY MEN OF COLOR ONLE RETREAT HOSTED BY EASTON MOUNTA RETREAT CENTER. EASTON MOUNTA IS A MUNY, RETREAT CENTER, AND SANCTUARY CREATED BY GAY MEN AS A GIFT TO THE WORLD. EASTON MOUNTA IS LOTED GREENWICH, NY AND I UNRSTAND THE RETREATS THE PAST HAVE ALL TAKEN PLACE PERSON. THIS WAS MY FIRST RETREAT OF THIS TYPE AND I ARRIVED (VIRTUALLY) WH NO EXPECTATN. THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY 30 MEN ATTENDANCE WH AN EXCELLENT REPRENTATN OF AG AND BACKGROUNDS. THE RETREAT FACILATOR ESHAN IS A VERY CHARISMATIC PERSON AND HAS CLEARLY FACILATED RETREATS OF THIS TYPE THE PAST. SOME OF THE GENTLEMEN KNEW EACH OTHER OM PRR EVENTS BUT SOME NEWERS REPORTED FEELG FORTABLE AND FULLY APPRECIATED. THE IMAG OF THE PHYSIL FACILY IS A BETIFUL RORT-TYPE PROPERTY UPSTATE NEW YORK AND I IMAGE ’S A GOOD PLACE TO ABSORB NATURE AND SHED SOME ASPECTS OF THE SUPERFICIAL WORLDS WE SOMETIM RI EASTON MOUNTA LOOKS SPAC, VG AND MP-LIKE. THERE IS A GREAT ROOM WHERE MANY OF THE DISCSNS TAKE PLACE. THE PROXIMY TO EACH OTHER THIS ROOM ALLOWS FOR AN ENERGY FOR PARTICIPANTS TO FEEL VULNERABLE YET SAFE. THE PANMIC REQUIRED EASTON MOUNTA TO QUICKLY PIVOT TO A VIRTUAL PLATFORM BUT SEVERAL LIVE AND VIRTUAL TOPIL RETREATS ARE PLANNED THROUGHOUT THE ‍ANOTHER GAY MEN'S GROUP CLOSER TO HOSTS FOUR RETREATS EACH YEAR AT VAR MPGROUNDS THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA. CALIFORNIA MEN'S GATHERG HAS BEEN SUPPORTG GAYMEN SCE 1978 AND WILL HOST A VIRTUAL RETREAT ON JUNE 5-6 WH THE THEME OF SEXUALY AND MASCULY. THE OVERALL FACILATOR WILL BE LLEGE TOR JARED SAMPSON (PICTUREDABOVE) WHO HELPS UNRSTAND AND OVERE THE TOXIC RULTS OF SOCIETY'S EMASCULATN OF MEN WHO DO NOT INTIFY AS STRAIGHT OR WHO DO NOT DISPLAY HYPER-MASCULE BEHAVR. THERE IS A NOMAL DONATN, BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ATTEND THE ENTIRE WEEKEND. REGISTER FOR THE GATHERG AT THE LK ‍IN OTHER NEWS......
• GAY IDAHO TRAVEL GUI
• GAY MEN'S RETREAT EXPERIENCTONY LANIER AND LORENZO TAYLORJUNE 3, 2021IN APRIL, I ATTEND A GAY MEN OF COLOR ONLE RETREAT HOSTED BY EASTON MOUNTA RETREAT CENTER. EASTON MOUNTA IS A MUNY, RETREAT CENTER, AND SANCTUARY CREATED BY GAY MEN AS A GIFT TO THE WORLD. EASTON MOUNTA IS LOTED GREENWICH, NY AND I UNRSTAND THE RETREATS THE PAST HAVE ALL TAKEN PLACE PERSON. THIS WAS MY FIRST RETREAT OF THIS TYPE AND I ARRIVED (VIRTUALLY) WH NO EXPECTATN. THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY 30 MEN ATTENDANCE WH AN EXCELLENT REPRENTATN OF AG AND BACKGROUNDS. THE RETREAT FACILATOR ESHAN IS A VERY CHARISMATIC PERSON AND HAS CLEARLY FACILATED RETREATS OF THIS TYPE THE PAST. SOME OF THE GENTLEMEN KNEW EACH OTHER OM PRR EVENTS BUT SOME NEWERS REPORTED FEELG FORTABLE AND FULLY APPRECIATED. THE IMAG OF THE PHYSIL FACILY IS A BETIFUL RORT-TYPE PROPERTY UPSTATE NEW YORK AND I IMAGE ’S A GOOD PLACE TO ABSORB NATURE AND SHED SOME ASPECTS OF THE SUPERFICIAL WORLDS WE SOMETIM RI EASTON MOUNTA LOOKS SPAC, VG AND MP-LIKE. THERE IS A GREAT ROOM WHERE MANY OF THE DISCSNS TAKE PLACE. THE PROXIMY TO EACH OTHER THIS ROOM ALLOWS FOR AN ENERGY FOR PARTICIPANTS TO FEEL VULNERABLE YET SAFE. THE PANMIC REQUIRED EASTON MOUNTA TO QUICKLY PIVOT TO A VIRTUAL PLATFORM BUT SEVERAL LIVE AND VIRTUAL TOPIL RETREATS ARE PLANNED THROUGHOUT THE ‍ANOTHER GAY MEN'S GROUP CLOSER TO HOSTS FOUR RETREATS EACH YEAR AT VAR MPGROUNDS THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA. CALIFORNIA MEN'S GATHERG HAS BEEN SUPPORTG GAYMEN SCE 1978 AND WILL HOST A VIRTUAL RETREAT ON JUNE 5-6 WH THE THEME OF SEXUALY AND MASCULY. THE OVERALL FACILATOR WILL BE LLEGE TOR JARED SAMPSON (PICTUREDABOVE) WHO HELPS UNRSTAND AND OVERE THE TOXIC RULTS OF SOCIETY'S EMASCULATN OF MEN WHO DO NOT INTIFY AS STRAIGHT OR WHO DO NOT DISPLAY HYPER-MASCULE BEHAVR. THERE IS A NOMAL DONATN, BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ATTEND THE ENTIRE WEEKEND. REGISTER FOR THE GATHERG AT THE LK ‍IN OTHER NEWS......
• GAY FREEDOM CAMP

GAY FREEDOM CAMP

Our programs promote nnectn, personal growth, fun & munyEaston Mounta is a muny, retreat center, and sanctuary created by gay men as a gift to the world. Gay Spir Camp offers men a chance to tablish lastg iendships a fun and upliftg environment, set agast the backdrop of the betiful Easton Mounta retreat, upstate New York. When you e to Gay Spir Camp, you will be celebratg wh like-md men, and together we will rekdle our gay spir durg a six-day gatherg.

Jo for Summer Gay Spir Day! We are vg lols to jo on the fal full day of Gay Spir Camp!

SUMMER GAY SPIR CAMP

Gay Freedom Camp is a special time for you to revel the magil space that is created when men who love men share their passn and love of life wh each may be limed so rerve your spot now! We’ve created a lightful get-a-away weekend for sgle gay men.

A Week of Celebratg Gay Brotherhood. Gay Spir Camp offers GBTQ men a chance to tablish lastg iendships a fun and upliftg environment, set agast the backdrop of the betiful Easton Mounta retreat, upstate New York. You are warmly ved to attend our Virtual Gay Freedom Camp – July 3-5, 2020 Read more, see the full schle, and register below!

Saturday clus a full day of programmg om an spirg lp of facilators, and Saturday eveng will feature "Voic of Gay Freedom", an timate showse of four diverse queer songwrers, Rat are on a slidg sle (listed on registratn page).

GAY FREEDOM CAMP

Easton Mounta is a muny, retreat center, and sanctuary created by gay men as a gift to the world. Jo Gay Freedom Camp, a 5-day event dited to embracg your thentic self! Earlier this year, I hantly signed up to attend the Internatnal Gay Coach Conference.

The nference was beg hosted at Easton Mounta by The Gay Coach Alliance. Easton Mounta was scribed as, “a muny, retreat center, and sanctuary created by gay men as a gift to the world. This would be my first time visg a retreat center, let alone one for gay men on the oppose si of the untry.

I VISED A GAY MEN’S RETREAT CENTER—HERE’S WHAT HAPPENED

I was credibly nervo to spend four days ral New York wh 35 fellow gay men, wh limed cellphone signal, and no Starbucks. Candidly, I expected the nference and retreat center to be fueled by gay stereotyp — cliqu, drama, gossip, and surface-level nversatns. My Experience At A Gay Retreat Center.

Add to this 35 gay men jog forc for a global ach’s nference, and you have an unstoppable batn. From the openg rual of “claimg our space at the firi, ” to a live performance by gay untry mic sger Brian Falduto and his band, I nstantly felt a sense of belongg and eedom at Easton Mounta. I veloped meangful relatnships wh gay men who unndnally loved and accepted me.

The center’s executive director, Harry Faddis, proclaimed that there is a gay agenda, and the gay agenda is “to change the world. The retreat also showed me how much I craved muny, and not jt any muny, but one posed of gay men wh siar backgrounds and lived experienc.

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Up until this retreat, I had never realized the lack of gay men my life, and upon arrivg back Santa Barbara, I found myself longg for more muny. This was my first vis to a gay men’s retreat center, but fely will not be my last.

I already have next year’s Internatnal Gay Coach Conference at Easton Mounta on my lendar. He is an official member of the vatn-only Forb Coach Council, a member of the Gay Coach Alliance, and a Certified Health Edutn Specialist (CHES). Ntled amidst the rollg hills and farmland of upstate New York, Easton Mounta has been an oasis of acceptance, peace, and muny for gay men for the past .

Elsewhere the Lodge is a large munal dg room; a "sun room, " also ed for workshops and meetgs, as well as seatg at mealtim; a hot tub; a massage room, where rint therapist Tim Cooley pli his tra; and a gift shop, where small sundri are sold along wh CDs by, among others, openly gay sger-songwrer Tom Goss.

GAY MEN'S RETREAT EXPERIENCTONY LANIER AND LORENZO TAYLORJUNE 3, 2021IN APRIL, I ATTEND A GAY MEN OF COLOR ONLE RETREAT HOSTED BY EASTON MOUNTA RETREAT CENTER. EASTON MOUNTA IS A MUNY, RETREAT CENTER, AND SANCTUARY CREATED BY GAY MEN AS A GIFT TO THE WORLD. EASTON MOUNTA IS LOTED GREENWICH, NY AND I UNRSTAND THE RETREATS THE PAST HAVE ALL TAKEN PLACE PERSON. THIS WAS MY FIRST RETREAT OF THIS TYPE AND I ARRIVED (VIRTUALLY) WH NO EXPECTATN. THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY 30 MEN ATTENDANCE WH AN EXCELLENT REPRENTATN OF AG AND BACKGROUNDS. THE RETREAT FACILATOR ESHAN IS A VERY CHARISMATIC PERSON AND HAS CLEARLY FACILATED RETREATS OF THIS TYPE THE PAST. SOME OF THE GENTLEMEN KNEW EACH OTHER OM PRR EVENTS BUT SOME NEWERS REPORTED FEELG FORTABLE AND FULLY APPRECIATED. THE IMAG OF THE PHYSIL FACILY IS A BETIFUL RORT-TYPE PROPERTY UPSTATE NEW YORK AND I IMAGE ’S A GOOD PLACE TO ABSORB NATURE AND SHED SOME ASPECTS OF THE SUPERFICIAL WORLDS WE SOMETIM RI EASTON MOUNTA LOOKS SPAC, VG AND MP-LIKE. THERE IS A GREAT ROOM WHERE MANY OF THE DISCSNS TAKE PLACE. THE PROXIMY TO EACH OTHER THIS ROOM ALLOWS FOR AN ENERGY FOR PARTICIPANTS TO FEEL VULNERABLE YET SAFE. THE PANMIC REQUIRED EASTON MOUNTA TO QUICKLY PIVOT TO A VIRTUAL PLATFORM BUT SEVERAL LIVE AND VIRTUAL TOPIL RETREATS ARE PLANNED THROUGHOUT THE ‍ANOTHER GAY MEN'S GROUP CLOSER TO HOSTS FOUR RETREATS EACH YEAR AT VAR MPGROUNDS THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA. CALIFORNIA MEN'S GATHERG HAS BEEN SUPPORTG GAYMEN SCE 1978 AND WILL HOST A VIRTUAL RETREAT ON JUNE 5-6 WH THE THEME OF SEXUALY AND MASCULY. THE OVERALL FACILATOR WILL BE LLEGE TOR JARED SAMPSON (PICTUREDABOVE) WHO HELPS UNRSTAND AND OVERE THE TOXIC RULTS OF SOCIETY'S EMASCULATN OF MEN WHO DO NOT INTIFY AS STRAIGHT OR WHO DO NOT DISPLAY HYPER-MASCULE BEHAVR. THERE IS A NOMAL DONATN, BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ATTEND THE ENTIRE WEEKEND. REGISTER FOR THE GATHERG AT THE LK ‍IN OTHER NEWS......

There's a sense of relief at beg such placid surroundgs, wh other gay men who also jt want a ltle peace and fellowship. Given such placid surrounds, 's hardly surprisg that Easton Mounta emphasiz "gay spirualy. " But 's not a place where gay physily is ignored--far om ; workshops at the retreat center clu Body Electric offergs, workshops such as Authentic Eros, and retreats for sgl and upl alike.

For young gay men, Easton Mounta provis a safe space to explore and disver--whout prsure, judgment, or expectatn. " One workshop the young man entered as a full participant was Gay Spir Camp, which Schwanebeck lled "a samplg of every program they have, mhed together one week" and lled "the happit time together.

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" Add Schwanebeck, "There's a day of Body Electric durg Gay Spir Camp. What is this place that gay men love so well that they feel moved to mata close nnectns wh one another even after they return home?

"He realized that gay men need healg--they need some place to al wh all the grief. I thk people, facg the realy of HIV, realize that gay culture as a whole is eply wound.

But that healg is not meant to be nfed to gay men. We're g at that first through a strategy of havg workshops for gay men and lbians or general GLBT people together.

GAY MEN'S RETREAT EXPERIENCTONY LANIER AND LORENZO TAYLORJUNE 3, 2021IN APRIL, I ATTEND A GAY MEN OF COLOR ONLE RETREAT HOSTED BY EASTON MOUNTA RETREAT CENTER. EASTON MOUNTA IS A MUNY, RETREAT CENTER, AND SANCTUARY CREATED BY GAY MEN AS A GIFT TO THE WORLD. EASTON MOUNTA IS LOTED GREENWICH, NY AND I UNRSTAND THE RETREATS THE PAST HAVE ALL TAKEN PLACE PERSON. THIS WAS MY FIRST RETREAT OF THIS TYPE AND I ARRIVED (VIRTUALLY) WH NO EXPECTATN. THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY 30 MEN ATTENDANCE WH AN EXCELLENT REPRENTATN OF AG AND BACKGROUNDS. THE RETREAT FACILATOR ESHAN IS A VERY CHARISMATIC PERSON AND HAS CLEARLY FACILATED RETREATS OF THIS TYPE THE PAST. SOME OF THE GENTLEMEN KNEW EACH OTHER OM PRR EVENTS BUT SOME NEWERS REPORTED FEELG FORTABLE AND FULLY APPRECIATED. THE IMAG OF THE PHYSIL FACILY IS A BETIFUL RORT-TYPE PROPERTY UPSTATE NEW YORK AND I IMAGE ’S A GOOD PLACE TO ABSORB NATURE AND SHED SOME ASPECTS OF THE SUPERFICIAL WORLDS WE SOMETIM RI EASTON MOUNTA LOOKS SPAC, VG AND MP-LIKE. THERE IS A GREAT ROOM WHERE MANY OF THE DISCSNS TAKE PLACE. THE PROXIMY TO EACH OTHER THIS ROOM ALLOWS FOR AN ENERGY FOR PARTICIPANTS TO FEEL VULNERABLE YET SAFE. THE PANMIC REQUIRED EASTON MOUNTA TO QUICKLY PIVOT TO A VIRTUAL PLATFORM BUT SEVERAL LIVE AND VIRTUAL TOPIL RETREATS ARE PLANNED THROUGHOUT THE ‍ANOTHER GAY MEN'S GROUP CLOSER TO HOSTS FOUR RETREATS EACH YEAR AT VAR MPGROUNDS THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA. CALIFORNIA MEN'S GATHERG HAS BEEN SUPPORTG GAYMEN SCE 1978 AND WILL HOST A VIRTUAL RETREAT ON JUNE 5-6 WH THE THEME OF SEXUALY AND MASCULY. THE OVERALL FACILATOR WILL BE LLEGE TOR JARED SAMPSON (PICTUREDABOVE) WHO HELPS UNRSTAND AND OVERE THE TOXIC RULTS OF SOCIETY'S EMASCULATN OF MEN WHO DO NOT INTIFY AS STRAIGHT OR WHO DO NOT DISPLAY HYPER-MASCULE BEHAVR. THERE IS A NOMAL DONATN, BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ATTEND THE ENTIRE WEEKEND. REGISTER FOR THE GATHERG AT THE LK ‍IN OTHER NEWS......

"However, fifty percent of our work, if you look at our talogue, is wh gay men, " Faddis add. "If you Google 'gay spirualy, ' you'll probably e up wh Easton Mounta, " he told EDGE. "Generally speakg, 's my experience over the years that when you ask people this qutn, what is gay spirualy, the first thg they tell you is what 's not.

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"It's hard for gay men to take a stand on this and say, 'This is what [spirualy] means to me, ' " Faddis add.

Workshop facilator Robert Billard, a bodyworker based Boston's South End, told EDGE, "I would say the unnsc theme is empowerment, and then some specifilly will e to, say, a achg retreat, which is fely workg wh gay men to empower them, or to seek healg: spirual healg, sexual healg, healg of the body, healg shame, stuff like that. "My role, I felt, is about creatg muny, and wh that ntext 's about guidg gay men toward empowerment. Billard has long been part of Livg Soulfully, which started as an attempt to create an alternative to bars where gay men uld gather.