The Details

  • The cost to participate is $4,489 per person for single occupancy accomodations and $3,889 per person for double occupancy*.

    This includes:

    • An intentionally curated and skillfully facilitated program of group and individual experiences, discussions, and activities thoughtfully designed to support attendees’ developing understanding of their own wholeness as both resistance and sustenance

    • Two nights’ accommodations and all meals for the duration of the program at the Alderbrook Resort and Spa

    • Round-trip airport transportation between the Seattle Tacoma International Airport and the Alderbrook Resort & Spa

    • Attendee-only access to post-experience materials and options for additional personalized support

    * Please note: Double-occupancy availability is limited. If you and a partner, friend, or colleague would like to room together in a double-occupancy room, please note that we will need all information for both registrants at the time of registration.

  • Great question! We have designed a program that incorporates structured time together and group experiences without sacrificing attendees’ varying needs for flexibility, individual time, and choice. Here is a program overview that, while not exhaustive, should provide some more insight into how we’ll spend the time at Alderbrook:

    Day 1:
    After welcoming each other into community and onto the land, we will inventory where we spend our time and energy and deepen our understanding of how our body is holding this current state. We will examine our relationship with forms of rest and breathe in the relief that putting down our “armor” can bring.

    Days 2 & 3:
    In our second day together, we will consider what wholeness looks like, explore the roles we play in different contexts, and explore our unmet needs. We will try on a variety of bite-sized ways to fine-tune daily practices in service of sustained restoration. We’ll consider what we can learn from our ancestors and what we want to teach our descendants.

    Day 4:
    On our final morning, we will engage in a culminating showcase of insights. We’ll consider how we plan to bring reflections, relationships, and rituals forward as we reintegrate with our lives back home. We will close with a ceremony to release what we’ve chosen to leave behind and embrace what we choose to bring forward.

    Throughout our time together, our days will be infused with many different formats for reflection and growth including journaling, guided visualizations, meditation, time in nature, and a variety of indigenous practices. Our evenings will end in deepening connections and centering joy with firepit s’mores, board games, jam sessions, and more. There will also be time for solo recharge time, options for quieter social activities, and other flexible options so that all attendees can find the balance of group and individual time that best suits them and their needs.

  • We’re here for anything you need. We know that this experience is a significant investment of time, energy, and money during a particularly challenging time for many of us.

    Whether it’s a logistical question, an accommodation or modification inquiry, or maybe you just need to talk things through as you consider joining us, please don’t hesitate to email us at info@palantellc.com and we’ll be in touch!

Meet the Pa’lante Pause Guides

  • Xiomara Padamsee

    Xiomara (she/her) is a Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Indian cisgender queer woman; a family-first wife, a mother, a daughter, a titi, and a sister. She is a nationally recognized leader in equity-centered facilitation and organizational transformation. As the founder of Pa’lante and Promise54, she has supported hundreds of social impact organizations to build liberatory practices, implement systemic change, and achieve transformational outcomes.

    Xiomara is a certified leadership coach and master facilitator, known for building deep, trusting relationships with leaders working to deprogram from internalized oppression while curating collective spaces for dialogue and decision-making. Earlier in her career, she built Teach For America’s first national talent team and served as its first Chief People Officer.

    Xiomara holds a BS from Cornell University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management. She is aPahara-Aspen Fellow and serves as a Looking Out Foundation Board Member.

  • Lucerito Ortiz

    Lucerito (she/her) is the proud daughter of immigrant parents from Guatemala and Mexico, a sister, friend, native Angeleno, data nerd, foodie, Lime Hot Cheeto connoisseur, escape room lover, and very easily distracted by dogs. She brings over fifteen years of experience in the social impact sector, driving impact, organizational effectiveness, and values alignment. Lucerito specializes in equity-infused facilitation, strategy and systems development, and values-driven leadership development.

    Lucerito has worked with organizations such as Promise54, UnidosUS, The Broad Center, and Harvard College, where she designed and implemented processes that centered the voices of historically excluded communities.

    Lucerito holds a BA in Social Studies with a focus on race and education from Harvard College and an M.Ed. in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.