18 hours · 3 days · Held one week before Week 1 of Level 3 begins · in residence or fully online with the same architecture
Master's Retreat
ICF competency anchor: Level 3 · Pre-program
1080 min · In residence or fully online
This week
To establish the contemplative ground at MCC depth before any teaching begins. To allow each student to arrive into the master pathway from stillness, not from busyness. To capture each student's master baseline through the full ICEF instrumentation (FPS-20, ROUSER, ICEI baseline) before any teaching shifts the readings. To form the cohort container in silence. To open the master pact: the written commitment that the next 36 weeks will require.
Session architecture
- Day 1 — Re-orientation and arrival. Re-orientation from Level 2 closing. Baseline assessments at master entry (FPS-20, ROUSER, observed-coaching review, ICEF self-read). Opening teaching on the master threshold. Cohort gathering in silence. Cena en silencio for residential cohorts; opening video circle for online cohorts.
- Day 2 — Silent practice intensive. Three formal sits, walking practice, eating in silence, the master's questioning at the heart of the retreat. Online participants commit to the same phone-free, news-free container with an altar/sacred-space at home.
- Day 3 — Cohort formation as a master cohort. Articulation of the master pact in each student's voice. Closing teaching on what the 36 weeks will ask. Departure into the week before Week 1.
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