September 17–21, 2026

Seraphina | Great Smoky Mountains

There is a growing recognition around the world that humanity is being invited into a new relationship with Life.

Many people feel it.

Some call it regeneration.

Some call it awakening.

Some call it New Earth.

Whatever language we use, the invitation is the same:

to remember who we are,

to reconnect with Life,

and to participate consciously in the emergence of thriving futures for all life.

The New Earth Awakening Convergence is an intimate gathering for those who feel called to explore this invitation together.

For five days we will slow down, listen deeply, reconnect with ourselves, one another, Earth, and Spirit, and begin co-creating what New Earth Awakening is becoming.

This is not simply a retreat.

It is a living field of emergence.

A place where people come together to listen for what Life is becoming through us.

Rather than following a predetermined agenda, we cultivate the conditions for insight, relationship, creativity, collaboration, and regenerative action to emerge naturally.

Each participant becomes part of the field.

Each conversation becomes part of the work.

Each person helps shape what unfolds.

Rediscover your place within the living web of Life.

Remember your innate capacities for love, wisdom, creativity, and participation.

Explore what New Earth means through scientific, ecological, spiritual, and lived experience.

Reconnect with your body.

Reconnect with Earth.

Reconnect with one another.

Reconnect with Spirit.

Reconnect with the living flow of Life that moves through all things.

Develop your capacity for life-force resonance through embodied practices, nature immersion, dialogue, ceremony, movement, silence, and shared experience.

Allow restored relationship to become regenerative action.

Discover how remembering and reconnecting naturally give rise to healthier relationships, communities, organizations, cultures, and landscapes.

Explore practical pathways for participating in the emergence of New Earth.

This convergence welcomes people who feel called toward the emergence of a more life-giving world.

You may be

• a scientist 
• an artist 
• an entrepreneur 
• an educator 
• a healer 
• a spiritual practitioner 
• a community leader 
• a regenerative farmer 
• a parent 
• or simply someone who senses that another way of living is possible. 

You do not need to subscribe to any particular philosophy or belief system.

You only need to feel the resonance.

Seraphina is a beautiful mountain sanctuary nestled near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park — a landscape of forests, rivers, mist, stone, and deep Earth presence.

The land itself is part of the experience — a pilgrimage through a sacred landscape.

Its stillness, beauty, and living intelligence support deep nervous system restoration, clarity, connection, and awakening.

Dr. Leah Veronica Gibbons is the founder of New Earth Awakening and a regenerative systems architect, researcher, teacher, and guide devoted to helping people remember their place within the living web of Life.

With a PhD in Sustainability and more than two decades of work spanning regenerative systems, leadership, ecological design, embodiment, spirituality, and transformative development, she integrates scientific understanding with lived experience to create practical pathways for personal, community, and planetary regeneration.

Her work weaves together living systems science, regenerative leadership, Earth wisdom, embodied practice, sacred relationship, and contemplative inquiry into a coherent developmental ecology that helps people cultivate greater coherence, resilience, and participation with Life.

Rather than offering a philosophy to adopt, Dr. Gibbons creates the conditions for people to remember, reconnect, and regenerate—to deepen their relationship with themselves, one another, Earth, and Spirit, while discovering their own unique role in the emergence of a thriving future.

If you feel something stirring as you read these words...

perhaps Life is already inviting you.

The New Earth Awakening Convergence is intentionally intimate.

We are gathering people who feel called not only to experience New Earth, but to help co-create it.

If this resonates, we invite you to begin the conversation.