Hear again.
Formation
Forming people
Slowing down and learning to hear and perceive again. Faith comes from hearing. This is the “being before doing” work: grounding, listening, health.
Hear again.Dream anew.Make together.
Goldenwood exists to renew our vision of work, and that renewal begins with slowing down to perceive more.
One path.
Work is the making of the unseen seen. Everything Goldenwood does moves along that one path, from what is unseen toward what is seen.
unseenseen
Dream anew.
Cultivation
Cultivating ideas
Turning that renewed hearing into dreaming. Helping people slow down enough to see what is beginning to emerge, and understand it.
Make together.
Creation
Nurturing the new
The careful, communal work of nurturing a dream into something real: prototyping the new into existence, in community rather than through speed or profit-first logic.
One path, two tracks.
Formation, Cultivation and Creation are not a list of programs. They are the path. The programs are how we walk it, for individuals and for organizations and sectors.
unseenseen
Formation
Cultivation
Creation
The Institute programs
for individuals
Nautilus & Trellisformation, every year
Greenhousecultivation, once a year
Institute Labsprototyping ideas throughout the year
Consulting & Collective
for organizations & sectors
The whole path adapted to an organization or sectorCurrent projects: Red Vineyard Collective. Singer-songwriters, then film and screenwriters, then visual artists and writers.
The path stays the same. We grow slowly by going deeper and by making room for more.
The Institute
The path for individuals.
The path applied to individual people. Formation in Nautilus, Trellis and the Goldenwood Intensive; cultivation in the Greenhouse; creation in Institute Labs. A rhythm to return to more deeply over changing seasons, not levels to unlock.
Consulting & Collective
The path for organizations, sectors and whole disciplines.
The same path applied to whole fields. More bespoke and relationship-driven. Currently anchored in Red Vineyard, which begins with singer-songwriters, extends to film and screenwriters with a 2027 film cohort, and hopes to welcome visual artists and writers, adding one field at a time.
Every name has a place on the path.
Nautilus
FormationThe Institute
The most intensive individual formation program. A structured arc, September through April, forming people in their relationship with time, God, self, others, and work. Weekly on Zoom plus three in-person retreats. Communal, not a do-it-yourself workbook.
- Season
- September to April
- Rhythm
- Weekly on Zoom
- In person
- Three retreats: fall, winter, spring
Trellis
FormationThe Institute
A lighter formation rhythm that tracks alongside Nautilus. Six times a year, two weeks per theme; a short daily guided listening session at midday with a two-week Listening Book. Best after Nautilus, reconnecting with community in a listening mode.
- Rhythm
- Six times a year
- Length
- Two weeks a theme
- Daily
- About 20 minutes, midday
Goldenwood Intensive
FormationThe Institute
The multi-day in-person formation experience. Being over doing; perception, prayer, shared story.
- Rhythm
- Quarterly
- Where
- In person
The Greenhouse
CultivationThe Institute
Takes an emerging dream and slows people down to understand what is really surfacing. Formerly the Dream Forum, born when people's dreams were being dashed and we wanted to revive the sense that we could still dream.
- Formerly
- The Dream Forum
- Shape
- A communal decelerator
Institute Labs
CreationThe Institute
Takes cultivated ideas and does the careful work of bringing something into the world, communally: bringing people in to test and prototype ideas into existence, deliberately unlike venture-capital speed and profit logic. Runs a few times a year.
- Rhythm
- A few times a year
- Shape
- Prototyping in community
Red Vineyard
All three movementsConsulting & Collective
Consulting with organizations and sectors, strategically focused on the arts as foundational to a healthy ecosystem. Named after Van Gogh's The Red Vineyard: build a healthy arts ecosystem first, then overlay other sectors on top of it.
- Now
- Singer-songwriters
- 2027
- Film and screenwriters
- Then
- Visual artists and writers, one field at a time
Consulting
All three movementsConsulting & Collective
Tailored journeys for organizations and sectors, walking the same path at the scale of a whole field.
- Shape
- Bespoke
- Pace
- Relationship-driven
Upcoming Events
All events5
Oct 2026
Institute Intensive | The Creative Myth
Oct 5, 2026 – Mar 1, 20277:30pm ETZoom (Link to be shared), online
25
Oct 2026
Trellis | New Voice: Discerning God’s Tone
Oct 25 – Nov 6, 20267:45pm ETOnline
7
Nov 2026
Life & Death in NYC 2026: Save the Date!
Nov 7, 20269:30am – 7pm ETE91, New York
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Made to Play
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Stories of Enlivening Work
“My concept of prayer is much bigger than it has ever been. The communal aspect of prayer has changed me — seeing that God can speak through me to encourage another — I realize my own brokenness doesn’t get in the way of when and how God wants to work. This is really encouraging to see the Spirit working.”Listening Retreat Participant, Designer
“I am so glad I decided to do more than one of these and I highly encourage and recommend that everyone does the same. There really is something to be said about repetition and building up rhythms. And the structure is so well thought through and designed.”Trellis participant, Arts Administrator
“I knew this would be a well-crafted and executed experience, but I don’t think I realized how impactful it would be to come together via Zoom to discuss, discern, and dialogue about AI. The course content was excellent, but the encouragement and insight I gained from this group of strangers was truly an unexpected blessing that I didn’t realize I needed.”Institute Course Participant, Librarian, Stuart, FL
“I’ve never experienced such a dynamic prayer life in community. It has been really transformative to my faith. This experience made tangible what it looks like to run the race with others who are spurring you on, exhorting one another to persevere.”Program Participant, Marketing Executive
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