The 40th HSP Gathering Retreat is now scheduled for August 29 – September 2, 2025
https://thebarnatboydsmills.com/
Registration form coming soon. To get on the waiting list to be notified send an email to :
jacquelyn@hspgatheringretreats.com with 40th HSP Gathering Retreat in the subject line.
All HSP Gathering Retreats are limited to 30 participants.
Coming Home to Ourselves as Highly Sensitive People.
Reclaiming our Wholeness.
2025 HSP Gathering Retreats ~ The 41st HSP Gathering Retreat Deadline to Register is July 12, 2025
You are warmly invited to join us at the 41st HSP Gathering Retreat.
We will once again come together to co-create and experience a unique community
of highly sensitive people, where we share in poignant and significantly meaningful and transformational conversations. Elaine Aron will share the latest on the research of Sensory Processing Sensitivity, as well as a talk on HSPs and Spirituality. Jacquelyn shares “The Spiritual Journey to Empowerment for the HSP” which is the same presentation made at the 2nd Italian HSP Conference in Bologna, Italy in Oct 2024. You will learn what it is like to “Focus on Needs, Not Approval;” experience a Nature as Teacher & Healer activity; learn about and experience a Conversation Café and so much more.
It has been an honor and a privilege to observe the HSP Gathering Retreats organically grow, evolve
move through three stages of growth and development over the last 25 years. Regardless of the year, these questions
are pondered and invariably get answered individually and collectively at an HSP Gathering Retreat:
What? What is the ongoing scientific research about our HSP trait? What do I personally know about myself as an HSP?
So What? What does all this mean for me as an individual and how does it impact my life in a positive way?
Now What? Where do I go from here? What am I responsible for?
Our special guest at all HSP Gathering Retreats is Dr. Elaine Aron, my co-founder of these amazing gatherings. You will hear the
synchronistic story of how I first came across Elaine’s work, how we met, and how the HSP Gatherings were created.
Elaine joins via Zoom at the 41st HSP Gathering in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.
You are warmly invited to join us at the 41st HSP Gathering Retreat.
We will once again come together to co-create and experience a unique community
of highly sensitive people, where we share in poignant and significantly meaningful and transformational conversations. Elaine Aron will share the latest on the research of Sensory Processing Sensitivity, as well as a talk on HSPs and Spirituality. Jacquelyn shares “The Spiritual Journey to Empowerment for the HSP” which is the same presentation made at the 2nd Italian HSP Conference in Bologna, Italy in Oct 2024. You will learn what it is like to “Focus on Needs, Not Approval;” experience a Nature as Teacher & Healer activity; learn about and experience a Conversation Café and so much more.
It has been an honor and a privilege to observe the HSP Gathering Retreats organically grow, evolve, move through three stages of growth and development over the last 25 years. Regardless of the year, these questions are pondered and invariably get answered individually and collectively at an HSP Gathering Retreat:
What? What is the ongoing scientific research about our HSP trait? What do I personally know about myself as an HSP?
So What? What does all this mean for me as an individual and how does it impact my life in a positive way?
Now What? Where do I go from here? What am I responsible for?
Our special guest at all HSP Gathering Retreats is Dr. Elaine Aron, my co-founder of these amazing gatherings. You will hear the
synchronistic story of how I first came across Elaine’s work, how we met, and how the HSP Gatherings were created.
Elaine joins us via Zoom at the 41st HSP Gathering in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.
Please try to register no later than July 12, 2025, as space IS limited after that date.
The 41st HSP Gathering Retreat
August 29-September 2, 2025
Arrival at Boyd Mills on August 29, 2025: 3:00 pm
Appetizers at 5:30 pm & dinner is our first meal at 6:00 pm
Departure: After lunch on Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Ride Sharing is Encouraged, let us know ASAP if you need a ride or can offer one, especially from Wilkes Barre Airport. Thanks!
The Barn at Boyds Mills is located in Millanville which is in the Northeastern part of Pennsylvania on the traditional lands of the Lenape Nation. The retreat center is tucked in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains surrounded by 1,300-acre forest. It is a couple of hours away from both NYC and Philadelphia, nearest airport is Scranton, PA. It is rich in family and Highlights Foundation history, and it’s a wonderful place that feeds the mind, body, and creative souls of those who visit.
Here are two touching testimonials from sensitive men who attended the 37th HSP Gathering in 2022 in Colorado.
I am grateful that Lindsey Jarrell will be one of my co-hosts at the 39th HSP Gathering. 🙂
“I want to send you a heartfelt thank you for hosting the 37th HSP Gathering Retreat. Words cannot express the amount of gratitude I have for some of the amazing connections I made. It was so inspiring to be surrounded by such caring and kind individuals with whom to share similar experiences and feelings with. I miss being there already.
I hope to take the theme “coming home to ourselves as HSP’s” and “focus on needs, not approval,” as I continue on this journey. You are an amazing person and such an inspiration as a leader for HSPs.” J.L. Stillwater, MN
“…Over the years I have attended many conferences, workshops and seminars and inevitably I find myself bored and wanting to leave prior to the end of the conference. However, I attended an HSP Gathering Retreat facilitated by Jacquelyn Strickland and it was phenomenal. I actually had to leave a few hours early regretting a previous work commitment that overlapped with the 5-day retreat. I can’t tell you how much it mean to me to spend time with like-minded HSPs, learning more about my trait, and understanding more about me. As Jacquelyn & Elaine Aron say: It is a new beginning to come home to our HSP self. I can’t say enough good things about my truly special HSP Gathering experience: one I cannot wait to return to. ..”
L. Jarrell, St. Petersburg, FL
What to Know About the HSP Gathering Retreats
The HSP Gathering Retreats, were co-founded in the U.S. in 2001 after honoring a series synchronistic events which led Jacquelyn to connect with research psychologist, Dr. Elaine Aron. Elaine and Jacquelyn Strickland, a (now retired) Licensed Professional Counselor, in Ft. Collins, Colorado held the first HSP Gathering in May 2001 in Northern California for 37 HSP1!
Since that time there have been 37 HSP Gathering Retreats both nationally and internationally. There have been 4 in the United Kingdom, 1 in Sweden, 2 in Germany, 3 in British Columbia, Canada, 4 in Colorado USA, 2 in North Carolina USA, 1 in Texas, and all others on the East and West Coasts of the U.S
It is interesting to note: This HSP Gathering Retreats are not a conference, a workshop, a seminar or a lecture. Yet, they can contain a combination of any of these, and most accurately, these retreats are loosely structured, non-hierarchal, and experiential in nature. Each one is different from the last based on the energies, temperaments and personalities shared by the participants. Jacquelyn is a seasoned facilitator honoring each individual’s experience while encouraging a safe, open environment to share one’s joys and challenges over the course of 5 days. I love what one participant shared: about her experience:
“It was the most comfortable, exciting, safe and beautiful experience for me to feel anxious in …while simultaneously coming out of my own isolated, comfort zone.”
The purpose of the HSP Gathering Retreats has evolved over time.
An excerpt from The Artist’s Way (which I affectionately call the ‘HSP Way”) says it:
“HSPs like other HSPs. HSPs help each other. As HSPs, we must find those who believe in usand in whom we believe, and band together forsupport, encouragement, and protection.”
The HSP Gathering Retreats also serve to:
- To raise the self-esteem of HSPs by providing a safe atmosphere in which to be seen, heard, and validated
- To value the trait of high sensitivity and its contribution to the world
- To foster the exchange of wisdom based on the science Sensory Processing Sensitivity as well as the sharing of personal experiences
- To educate, motivate, and inspire HSPs to create authentic lives that work for them so that they embrace their unique gifts and manifest those gifts in the world
- To help develop supportive communities for HSPs locally, nationally and internationally
Gifts You Can Expect from attending
a HSP Gathering if you are open to them
Here are some of the gifts you might receive from attending an HSP Gathering Retreat:
- To raise the self-esteem of HSPs by providing a safe atmosphere in which to be seen, heard, and validated
- To value the trait of high sensitivity and its contribution to the world
- To educate, motivate, and inspire HSPs to create authentic lives that work for themso that they embrace their unique gifts and manifest those gifts in the world
- To foster the exchange of wisdom based on personal experiences
- To help develop supportive communities for HSPs locally, nationally and internationally
