Where Mediation Becomes Meditation
Weekend Retreat at Home
May 15-17, 2026
For Europe/Africa/Middle East Time Zones
Friday 7:30pm-9:00pm Central Europe Time
Saturday 2:00pm-4:00pm, 6:00pm-8:00pm CET
Sunday 8:00am-10:00am CET
A path to peace, wellbeing, and the life you want through the difficult moments we face. Join John and a community from around the world on May 15th for an immersive, meditative online retreat where we come together in the reality of our lived experiences to meet with empathic, compassionate awareness the conflicts and difficulties that shape our lives — personal, work, societal. Through witnessing and participating in the three chairs process, you discover that the peace and resolution you seek is not found through avoidance, but emerges naturally when we turn toward what is here with honesty, connection, and presence.
As we engage in this shared exploration, something real begins to shift — within ourselves, in our relationships, and in the way we meet life itself. MYL is a model, map, and skills to mediate and navigate adversity and discover solutions, happiness, wellbeing, and new possibilities on the other side of conflict.
On the other side of conflicts we avoid is the life we seek.
In this immersive online retreat, John guides the group in a meditative way that is calming, soothing, and nourishing to the nervous system through difficult situations in the three chairs model to a place of peace and resolution, with transformation and healing happening along the way. You will have a chance to witness others and be guided by John through a difficulty in your life or in the world, and to share deeply with others and connect and learn together in small groups.
You may be someone who helps others with conflicts and challenges (e.g. mediator, coach, therapist, organizational leader), or maybe you are looking for practical, effective skills and tools to navigate life’s difficulties, especially as the world becomes more challenging by the day, or perhaps you are a seeker of personal, spiritual, or consciousness growth.
This weekend at home experience isn’t about learning the MYL system. It’s about experiencing the profound shifts that happen with the power of empathic awareness and language moving through the structure and process of the three chairs.
People come carrying the conflicts of their lives — with a partner, a colleague, a parent, themselves, the world — and leave feeling something has genuinely changed, and for everyone in the group. John’s gift is facilitating the conditions for that magic to happen live, in real time, with real and difficult situations that we can all relate to.
Schedule
The weekend retreat will begin with an opening on Friday evening. The following day(s), there will be three two-hour experiential sessions, with time for integration in-between each session. This retreat is designed for an immersive and restorative experience where you will have space and time in between each session to meditate, journal, walk, and/or connect or practice with others in the retreat.
Community
The retreat is a wonderful opportunity to connect with like-minded people around the world. You may also wish to join one of the several Zoom rooms that will be open for a period of time after each session so you can chat, meditate or spend some time together.
Access
The platform we use for the sessions is Zoom. All registrants will receive audio and video links to stream the recordings of each session.
May 15-17 Retreat
- Meet Facilitator -
John Kinyon
John Kinyon has devoted his life and career to human connection and the ability to shift from conflict to understanding, compassion, and collaboration through empathic communication.
John trains individuals around the world in his Mediate Your Life (MYL) approach, and is a mediation and conflict coaching guide for people and organizations experiencing all forms of conflict, internal and external. He is a certified trainer of the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC).
His MYL approach offers a map of consciousness based in the work of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) that integrates a mediation framework, mindfulness, and trauma work. For over 25 years he has mediated conflicts and developed and delivered the NVC/MYL training throughout the U.S. and in countries around the world in Europe, Asia, and Australia. Mediate Your Life helps people navigate conflicts and challenges, inner and outer, in all aspects of life.
In this intensive retreat, you will experience the profound shift that happens with the power of the three chairs and moving through a particular process. People come carrying the conflicts of their lives and leave feeling something has genuinely changed, and for everyone in the group. John’s gift is facilitating the conditions for that magic to happen live, in real time, with real and difficult situations that we can all relate to.
The weekend retreat will begin with an opening session on Friday evening. Following this, there will be three two-hour experiential sessions, with time given for integration in-between each session. This retreat is designed for an immersive and restorative experience where you will have space and time in between each session to meditate, journal, walk, and/or connect or practice with others in the retreat.
Retreat Outline for May 15-17
Friday, May 15th
- 7:30pm-9:00pm Central Europe Time (10:30am-12pm PT): Session 1
Saturday, May 16th
- 2:00pm-4:00pm CET (5:00am-7:00am PT): Session 2
- 4:00pm-6:00pm CET (7:00am-9:00am PT): Integration break
- 6:00pm-8:00pm CET (9:00am-11:00am PT): Session 3
Sunday, May 17th
- 8:00am-10:00am (Saturday 11:00pm- Sunday 1:00am PT): Session 4