Where Your Treasure Lies
A guided reflective journey into what truly matters in the time we are given.
Where Your Treasure Lies is a guided reflective journey built around one of life’s most profound questions.
Drawing on insights from end-of-life care, near-death experience research and community, and contemplative traditions, the process invites participants to step outside the noise of everyday life and reconnect with what truly matters.
The work emerged through my years supporting people at life's thresholds. Again and again, I witnessed the remarkable clarity that arises when a person looks back across their life with honesty and compassion.
In those moments, certain themes appear again and again: love given and withheld, courage found or deferred, forgiveness offered or longed for, and the quiet recognition of what mattered all along.
Where Your Treasure Lies offers a way to access that same profound clarity while we are still living, allowing it to guide the choices and relationships that shape our lives.
A quiet question we will each face
Our lives are often full.
With deadlines, responsibilities, commitments, and the steady rhythm of everyday demands.
Yet, regardless of our to do lists, inevitably, each of us will encounter life’s deeper questions.:
What has truly mattered in my life?
What kind of legacy am I creating with the time I have?
Where Your Treasure Lies offers a rare opportunity to explore these questions now,
while there is still time to live the answers.
The Experience
The experience unfolds through three movements.
Each invites a different kind of reflection, engaging the mind, body, and spirit and gently guiding participants toward what matters most.
Together, these reflections create space to step back from the roles we carry, reconnect with the deeper self beneath them, and rediscover what we wish to carry forward in the years ahead.
The Life Review journey begins with a contemplative life-review exercise that invites participants to imagine looking back across the arc of their lives from the perspective of their final days.
This exercise was adapted and rewritten for this program from reflective practices used in hospice volunteer and end-of-life care training.
Beyond the Roles We Carry Over time we accumulate many roles and identities.
In this part of the journey, participants are invited to step back from these familiar labels, reconnect with a deeper sense of self and to reimagine possibilities with a wider lens.
A Guided Inner Journey The final movement invites participants into a quiet inner journey inspired by ancient traditions of reflection and visioning, allowing insights and gifts to emerge from within.
How the Retreat Unfolds
Over the course of the retreat, participants are guided through a series of reflections and experiential exercises that invite a deeper encounter with their own life story.
The pace is intentionally spacious, allowing time for contemplation, creative expression, and quiet integration.
The journey includes:
• Guided contemplative reflection
• Creative and expressive exercises
• A shamanic-inspired life-review journey
• Opportunities for quiet integration and insight
Each element is designed to help participants see beyond surface distractions and enter into a deeper and more honest relationship with what is truly of value in their own lives.
For many participants, the experience becomes a rare opportunity to step outside the momentum of everyday life and listen more deeply to the quiet truths that have always been present within them.
What I’ve Witnessed in Participants
Over the Years People come to this work for many different reasons.
Some arrive during moments of transition, feeling stuck or uncertain about what lies ahead.
Others come out of simple curiosity, or are gently persuaded to attend by a spouse or friend.
I’ve seen mothers and daughters arrive together, partners dragged along with reluctance, and friends accompanying one another, each carrying their own expectations.
I have also experienced this with a room full of End-of-Life Doulas in training, individuals already deeply familiar with life’s final threshold, yet still profoundly moved by seeing their own lives through this lens.
There are many paths that bring people to this work.
What I hear from every participant is that they leave touched by the experience, each carrying their own revelations about what's truly precious to them.
Again and again, I have witnessed people experience a striking clarity about their lives.
Seeing life from the perspective explored in this work brings a sudden recognition of what is most meaningful, and what no longer needs to be carried forward.
For some, this clarity leads to meaningful changes in how they live. Participants have spoken of reconnecting with estranged family members, expressing love that had long gone unspoken, giving treasured possessions to those they cherish, or making decisions that more fully reflect the life they wish to live.
Many also find a sense of freedom in finally letting go of the burden of long-held resentments unforgiveness.
And yet, perhaps the most profound change is far quieter.
Many people describe rediscovering a deeper sense of meaning and a new appreciation for the simple moments of life.
They begin to see, sometimes for the first time in many years, the preciousness of time itself, something no amount of money can ever buy.
Perhaps the greatest gift of the experience is that it allows people to encounter these realizations while life is still unfolding before them. While there is still time to live in alignment with what their heart knows to be true.
Ways to Experience Where Your Treasure Lies
Where Your Treasure Lies is currently offered in a small number of guided retreat settings, as well as through an upcoming self-guided digital journey.
In-Person Retreat Experience
The full guided experience is offered as a three-day retreat designed to allow participants to move through the process gradually and with care.
The next retreat will take place in June in Naramata, in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, in a peaceful natural setting that supports reflection and quiet integration.
Participation is intentionally limited to maintain an intimate and supportive environment.
More information about the upcoming retreat will be shared soon.
If you would like to be notified when details become available, you are warmly invited to join the waitlist.
Self-Guided Digital Journey (Coming Soon)
An abbreviated self-paced version of Where Your Treasure Lies is currently in development.
This guided digital journey will allow individuals to move through the core reflections at their own pace from home, accompanied by a 21-day contemplative journaling journey.
If you would like to be notified when the digital journey becomes available, you are warmly invited to join the waitlist.
