Tapestry Immersive Fall 2025: A Journey Through Land, Legacy, and Incarceration
This fall, as the leaves turn, we gather in Maine—the home of Tapestry and Conscious Revolution—for a four-day immersive journey into history, healing, and collective reckoning.
Date: October 2, 2025 starting at 12pm ET through October 5, 2025 at 1pm ET
Location: Camden, Maine
Program Description:
While some of us stood in Montgomery this past spring, confronting the legacy of slavery and racial violence, this immersion brings us North—to the stories held in the whitest state in the nation. On the land of the Wabanaki people, we will begin with the present-day realities of mass incarceration and trace our way backward through systems of racialized harm, exploring how these legacies were built and how they continue to shape lives, bodies, and institutions today. Alongside creatives, healers, and change-agents, we will begin weaving a new narrative—together.
Fall in Maine is a season of transformation—of shedding, letting go, and preparing the ground for what comes next. It's a time to slow down, reflect deeply, and reconnect with what truly matters.
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Tapestry Immersive: Fall 2025 is for Tapestry sisters ready to go deeper—not just in knowledge, but in connection and transformation.
Pre-requisite: Completion or current participation in Seeing White: Foundations for White Women
If you have not yet taken Seeing White and are interested in attending, please reach out to discuss this opportunity.
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Program Fee: $930
If you are a person with financial means, we invite you to consider investing in the future of the Tapestry movement. The true cost of participation in our immersive experience is $2,000 per person. However, to ensure this work is accessible to all, we offer tiered pricing and scholarships. Your investment helps bridge the gap—making it possible for individuals from diverse backgrounds to engage in this transformative journey. Whether you choose to sponsor a participant, or invest in the program itself, your support is vital. See below for more details on investing in the Tapestry Movement.
Program Fee Includes:
✔️ All scheduled activities and performances
✔️ Ground transportation during the retreat
✔️ Shared meals
✔️ Support for racial equity advisor attendance and facilitationNot Included:
✖️ Lodging (see below)
✖️ Airfare/transportation to and from Camden, Maine (see below) -
Over the course of our time together, we will engage in:
Ritual, storytelling, and guided conversation grounded in truth, healing, and accountability
A powerful day at Niweskok, a collaboration of Wabanaki food and medicine providers rematriating the Penobscot Bay region as an Indigenous food hub
Performance and film by Maine Inside Out, which ignites collective creativity and inspires social action by engaging youth and adults impacted by systemic oppression to create and share original theater
A WHERE Walk with Atlantic Black Box, Meadow Dibble’s organization, one of our Tapestry members!
Shared seasonal meals, embodiment practices, stillness, and reflection
Deeper connection with Tapestry Equity Advisors, Dr. Zoe Spencer, and Taylor Paul, who will be joining us in Maine. And, a special evening ritual and creative offering by Taylor Paul.
Experiencing the fall season and peak foliage in Maine. Fall in Maine is a season of transformation—of shedding, letting go, and preparing the ground for what comes next. It’s the perfect time to slow down, reflect deeply, and reconnect.
General Schedule (Subject to Change)
Wednesday, September 24, 830-9pm ET - Zoom meeting with all trip participants
| Thursday October 2, 2025 | Friday October 3, 2025 | Saturday October 4, 2025 | Sunday October 5, 2025 |
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| Arrival and check-in | Morning reflection and personal time | Day trip and immersive walk with Atlantic Black Box in Castine focused on historical reckoning and place-based learning | Closing ceremony and final reflections |
| Welcome gathering | Day-long visit and learning experience at Niweskok | Group processing and connection | Departure |
| Evening performance and community conversation with Maine Inside Out | Evening ritual and creative offering by Taylor Paul |
Lodging & Travel Logistics
Lodging is not included in the cost of this immersive. We have held rooms at several charming inns all in the same neighborhood in Camden, Maine under “Conscious Revolution.”
Participants must reserve their rooms at the Inns above by August 7. We encourage you to coordinate shared accommodations to help reduce costs and make the most of the available space. Room sizes vary—some can accommodate one person, others up to three—and each inn offers its own unique pricing and style. Each website has pictures of the rooms to review. If you’re open to sharing a room, we’re happy to help connect you with others who are, too. When you are ready to book, each Inn is awaiting your call to book your room and all are looking forward to hosting our group! With the busy season underway, availability and pricing in Camden are becoming more limited. While you're welcome to book elsewhere, we recommend choosing one of these places to ensure you have a spot.
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6 rooms available through the room blockSea Glass - Queen - $299/night (Thursday), $319/night (Friday and Saturday)
Nautical Nook - Queen - $289/night (Thursday), $309/night (Friday and Saturday)
Crows Nest - 2nd floor Queen - $279/night (Thursday), $299/night (Friday and Saturday)
Balmy Blue - Ground Floor Queen - $309/night (Thursday), $329/night (Friday and Saturday)
King Suite - Snug Harbor - King Bed Only- $ 369/night (Thursday), $389/night (Friday and Saturday)
Chard House - King plus 2 twin beds - $399/night (Thursday), $419/night (Friday and Saturday) plus 40$ extra 3rd or 4th person per night
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4 rooms available through the room blockDavis Suite - 1 king and pull out - $349/night
Vinyl Haven - 2 twins - $319/night
Lucern - Queen - $289/night
Edna - Full - $269/night
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3 rooms available through the room blockSunflower Suite - King and daybed, plus trundle - $355/night (with discount to be added for multiple nights)
Petite King - King - $340/night (with discount to be added for multiple nights)
King Suite #7 - King - $365/night (with discount to be added for multiple nights)
We ask that participants plan to arrive in Portland by 12:00 PM or in Camden by 2:00 PM on Thursday, October 2. For those flying into the Portland Jetport (PWM) without a car, we will help coordinate rides to and from Camden.
The immersive will conclude by 11:00 AM on Sunday, October 5, and we aim to have participants back in Portland by 1:00 PM for travel departures.
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The cost of participation in Tapestry across all programs and immersives has been significantly reduced in order to make it more financially accessible to our community of white women committed to personal and collective transformation.
As we continue to expand and deepen this work, we are actively seeking impact investors and values-aligned partners to support the long-term sustainability of Tapestry and the broader Conscious Leadership Community (CLC).
If you or someone you know is moved by the work we’re doing and would like to help fund its future, we’d love to connect. Your investment helps ensure that programs like Tapestry—immersive experiences grounded in equity, history, creativity, and care —can continue to grow and remain accessible.
This work is not funded by foundations. We’re not a nonprofit. We are a women-led, values-driven Public Benefit Corporation doing emergent, catalytic work that sits outside traditional funding models—but is essential for what’s ahead.
We are currently seeking to raise $75,000 in 2025/2026 to support:
Racial Equity Advisor involvement and accountability
Curriculum and immersive program development
Scholarships and accessibility for future Tapestry experiences
Infrastructure and facilitation
This investment will strengthen the foundation of the CLC and of Tapestry and help build a sustainable, accessible leadership ecosystem for years to come.
Click here to learn more about becoming an investor in this movement.
Facilitators
Tara Jenkins (she/her), Principal Consultant & Founder Conscious Revolution
I’ve got a couple of things I’m doing that I’d call my life’s joy (formerly called life’s work). Being a mom to my two kids gives me a chance to directly influence two people that will do great things in this beautiful, chaotic, wild world. Yes!
My life’s joy is also helping leaders build inspiring organizations that they love. There’s no better way to spend precious life time! The unique organizations we create together impact so many people for the better.
I have been told I’m a catalyst for transformation. To do this work I have a commitment to be awake in every aspect of my life, a commitment to equity and abundance, and a vow to be content in being both polished and a messy work in progress.
Witty things make me laugh. Kindred spirits fill me up. I love the sky, trees and water. Ask me to travel, sing, dance, hike, or see live music and I’m immediately in. Skiing and camping are a blast once you’ve started but the prep almost makes me not want to go. Someday I’ll be deeply settled in my body and soul and helping others to do the same.
And yeah, I have all those credentials one typically needs to be declared legit. Twenty-five plus wisdom-building years grinding it out as a global HR leader; Undergrad in Human Resources, Masters in Organizational Development & Leadership, Certifications galore. In 2019, I became one of the world’s first Certified Conscious Capitalism Consultants*.
Our work together will fill everyone, including us, with joy and inspiration. Yes, we can do that! Yes, that’s what we are doing! Join us!
Margot Fine, LCSW (she/her) Partner Consultant & Conscious Leadership Community Lead
I’m Margot, a community weaver, advocate for radical transformation, and lifelong learner. My roots stretch from a third-generation New York lineage with Russian and Polish ancestry to the place we now call Portland, Maine—where I’ve spent over 20 years building connections and nurturing community. I find joy in walking by the ocean with my partner, learning alongside my kids, playing in the garden, creating art, and making soup without recipes.
Throughout my career, I’ve worked within organizations and systems, fostering change on issues such as food sovereignty, incarceration, youth resiliency, and alternatives to exclusionary practices. My experience includes working on large-scale political campaigns and alongside government systems, advocating for inclusivity and responsiveness at every level. I have been deeply shaped by my work as a co-founder and Co-Executive Director of Maine Inside Out, an organization I helped bring to life that uses theater as a tool for social change, centering people most directly impacted by incarceration. In my role as Co-Executive Director, I worked collaboratively across different identities, guiding the organization’s vision, strategic planning, and operational growth. I also nurtured MIO’s sustainability framework, focusing on non-traditional governance and shared decision-making processes.
In addition to my organizational work, I am passionate about facilitating groups and curating transformative experiences that empower individuals and communities. I aim to bring people together in meaningful ways, creating spaces where people can learn, be heard, be held, and grow—whether in a workshop, a retreat, or a collective action.
While my journey has been influenced by hands-on, organizational experience, I also graduated from Bates College, received a Master of Social Work (MSW) from the University of Southern Maine and have a Clinical Social Work License. These academic experiences have provided me with useful tools that complement my practical work and deepen my understanding of collective healing and change.
My approach focuses on trust, collaboration, and growth, and I am committed to fostering spaces where people can evolve individually and collectively. My work continues to be driven by a desire to support lasting change and ongoing evolution, whether that’s with individuals, organizations, communities, or systems.
When I’m not working, you can find me outside, connecting with the natural world and finding joy in the simple acts of creating, collaborating, and being as present as possible in the moment.
Racial Equity Advisors
Dr. Zoe Spencer (she/her) Tapestry Racial Equity Consultant
Dr. Zoe Spencer says “I am wise enough to know that I know nothing at all.” She is a scholar/strategist/activist from Barry Farms projects in DC. She currently teaches sociology at Virginia State University. She is a published author and a highly sought after speaker and presenter. Most importantly she is a freedom fighter, a seeker of truth, and unapologetic in her purpose of making a better world for humanity, no matter how small the mark. She says: I am a microcosm of the Universe, in real life. I was put here to perform a task, maybe even to take this test…test my faith, test my humility, test my obedience, test my resilience, test my focus…test my willingness to simply admit that every blessing is given to carry out a divine purpose…And the closer I get to actualization, the more I realize that I am just a vessel, on loan to this Earth to see what I will do here, to tell stories, fight, love, and then leave…hopefully a legacy-a lingering spirit- that will live on-long after my body is no more.
Taylor Paul (he/him) Tapestry Racial Equity Consultant
Taylor Paul was appointed by the governor to his juvenile justice and prevention board and just recently the governor’s department of criminal justice service board as well. Taylor Paul is cofounder of RVA League for Safer Streets, an unorthodox basketball program that focuses on problem solving, critical thinking and conflict resolution for high risk youth in the city of Richmond, VA. He’s also the founder of THE S.A.N.I.T.Y. Project (Standing Against Negative Influences Toward Youth), a program that takes aim at incarcerated fathers and their children. Paul Taylor served 23 years of a life plus 26 year sentence, and was paroled on his 11th try in 2017, returning to his community as Taylor Paul, the opposite of the man who went in. He’s passionate about restoring humanity back inside of people challenging all racial biases and social injustices. Taylor Paul shared his story in the Richmond Post-Dispatch and more recently at Philadelphia Citizen’s Ideas We Should Steal Festival.