Retreats

New Student Retreat is a Seattle U tradition offered in fall quarter as a way for first-year and transfer undergraduate students to build community, reflect on their hopes for their journey at SU, and have fun! On New Student Retreat, you'll have the chance to get off campus for a weekend in a beautiful location, hear talks from student leaders about their own SU experience, reflect on your journey to and at SU, and create community with other first-years through a mix of fun and reflection. We

Through silence and meaningful reflection, retreatants are invited to discover the generative love in their lives, listen deeply to the core of who they are, and respond to the holy call to act with compassion, courage, and hope in this world. Held at the serene Palisades Retreat Center overlooking Puget Sound, participants engage in Ignatian spirituality through daily spiritual direction, communal prayer, and guided discernment practices

The Search Retreat gives you the opportunity to reflect on yourself and your sense of the sacred in the context of community. Though the retreat's roots are in the Jesuit Christian tradition, students of all faith and non-faith backgrounds are welcome to attend and encouraged to show up as they are to explore how love, the sacred, and our relationships shape us and the world we live in.

This retreat is a time for students who have been historically excluded by dominant systems due to their racial or ethnic identity to just be. We will travel off campus to be in community, have fun, reflect, and build potential lifelong connections.

Embodying the Sacred is a retreat open to undergraduate students who identify as non-binary, Two-Spirit, transgender, genderqueer, or cisgender women. This retreat is spacious and centers around making space to ground down in the joy and strengths of our identities, find rest, cultivate community, and have fun. This retreat typically takes place in winter quarter.