San Diego Mountains · California

A place for the conversations ordinary environments rarely make possible.

An intimate four-acre retreat campus designed for transformation, leadership, wellness, community, celebration and profoundly human connection.

Host Your Retreat
14–24 Overnight Guests
~100 Daytime Guests
4 Private Acres
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More Than a Retreat Venue

Most venues give you rooms.
The ARC gives you a container.

Every part of the campus has been intentionally created to support connection, reflection, creativity, restoration and transformation. Gather beneath the geometry of the Abundance Dome. Share meals and conversations in the Flow House. Sit around the fire beneath the stars. Walk the land. Rest. Create. Celebrate.

Come here to step outside ordinary life. Leave with something new alive in you.

Aerial view of The ARC retreat campus, residence and Abundance Dome in the San Diego mountains
The Land

Mountain air. Sunrise. Sunset. Stars. Space to move between community and solitude.

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A Campus for Transformation

Different intentions.
One extraordinary setting.

The ARC welcomes retreat leaders, facilitators, educators, founders, wellness practitioners, community builders, organizations and families creating experiences with intention.

A large retreat community gathered together outdoors at The ARC
Community Gather with intention.
Guests in a facilitated small-group conversation at The ARC
Connection Conversations that go depth.
A facilitated group session inside The Abundance Dome at The ARC
Transformation Space designed for meaningful work.
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Transformational Retreats

Immersive experiences centered around personal growth, spirituality, healing, creativity, human development and meaningful change.

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Leadership Retreats

Step away from daily operations and reconnect with vision, relationships, purpose and what matters most.

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Founder & Team Offsites

Create space for your leadership team to think differently, reconnect profoundly and imagine what comes next.

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Community Gatherings

True belonging, strengthen relationships and help a network or audience become a true community.

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Wellness Experiences

Yoga, meditation, breathwork, movement, sound, longevity, nutrition, restoration and integrative wellbeing.

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Celebrations & Culture

Intimate dinners, luncheons, milestones, Diwali, Lunar New Year, rites of passage and other meaningful gatherings.

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The Campus

A collection of spaces designed to let a gathering move, breathe and depth.

Concept visualization of The ARC campus and extended retreat setting
Campus VisionA Retreat Setting Designed as a Whole
Garden path leading toward The Abundance Dome at The ARC
The LandSpaces to Slow Down
Retreat guests gathered with Sage in front of The Abundance Dome at The ARC
Signature SpaceThe Abundance Dome
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The Abundance Dome

The energetic heart of The ARC — an unforgettable geodesic environment for workshops, ceremonies, conversations, teachings, movement, music, meditation and group experiences. Capacity up to approximately 100.

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The Flow House

The social heart of the campus: meals, conversations, workshops, lounging and the spontaneous moments that often become the most memorable part of a retreat.

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The Healing House

A dedicated setting for restoration and wellbeing. Depending on the experience, offerings may include sauna, red light therapy, massage, hydrogen water and other restorative modalities.

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The Root House

A private guest house offering additional accommodations and space for retreat leaders, faculty, special guests or participants.

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The Land

Four acres of mountain landscape with nature paths, outdoor gathering spaces, fire circle, jacuzzi, quiet corners and room to move between community and solitude.

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Stay at The ARC

Immersive by design.
Intimate by choice.

The ARC is designed to support residential experiences. Depending on retreat configuration and single or double occupancy, the campus can accommodate approximately 14 to 24 overnight guests.

That flexibility supports intimate executive and leadership retreats as well as larger residential experiences while preserving the warmth and connection that make The ARC distinctive.

14–24Overnight guests
~100Daytime gathering capacity
4Private mountain acres
+Extended campus on request
A retreat community gathered with Sage in front of The Abundance Dome
Belong here Residential experiences keep the connection alive beyond the session.
Retreat guests gathered together on the lawn in front of The Abundance Dome
Together here Shared spaces make it easy to move from program to conversation to rest.
A retreat community gathered inside a bright residential space at The ARC
Stay immersed Meals, conversations and the spaces between the agenda become part of the experience.
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Designed for the Spaces Between the Agenda

The session matters.
So does everything around it.

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The walk afterward.

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The conversation at breakfast.

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The moment around the fire.

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The silence before sunrise.

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The person you unexpectedly sit next to at dinner.

Those are often the moments people remember most.
SAGE, the beloved Goldendoodle mascot of The ARC The ARC Mascot

A Little Warmth on the Journey

Meet SAGE.

Sage is the beloved Goldendoodle mascot of The ARC — a warm, playful presence who reminds us what true connection feels like. She embodies so much of what The ARC stands for: unconditional love, joyful welcome, grounding, and the feeling that you belong exactly as you are.

With her gentle spirit, wise eyes, and intuitive nature, Sage has a way of sensing when someone needs comfort, companionship, or simply a quiet presence nearby. She greets guests with open-hearted affection, loves being close to circles and gatherings, and has become part of the experience for so many people who visit The ARC.

She is more than our mascot. She is family, the unofficial guardian of joy at The ARC, and a living reminder to lead with love.

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Why The ARC

Environment is not the backdrop.
It is part of the experience.

A ballroom creates one kind of experience. A boardroom creates another. A Zoom room creates another. A mountain campus beneath an open sky creates something entirely different.

When people leave their normal environment, enter a beautiful and intentional space, and gather with purpose, different conversations become possible.

People soften. They listen differently. They connect faster. They remember what matters.
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Experiences at The ARC

See what is gathering next at The ARC.

Explore the evolving calendar of retreats, community experiences, founder gatherings, wellness immersions, celebrations, sound, movement and transformational events.

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Come Create Something That Matters

You bring the people and the purpose.
We provide the place where something extraordinary can happen.

What do you want them to experience? What do you want them to remember? Who do you hope they become by the time they leave?
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What People Experience Here

Stories from people who have gathered at The ARC.

Retreat leaders, facilitators and event partners reflect on the environment, the flow of the campus and what became possible here.

Linda & ShellyBlue Diamond Events

As an event planner, We’ve worked with many venues throughout Southern California, and The ARC has become one of my favorite places to host retreats for our clients.

What makes The ARC so special is how intentionally the property is designed for the retreat experience. It offers the privacy and sense of escape you want for meaningful group work, while still being incredibly convenient. Grocery stores, supplies, and everything our team may need are close by, and the additional housing and extended campus options make it easy to accommodate different group sizes without losing the feeling of being together.

The Abundance Dome is especially unique. It gives facilitators a dedicated space for workshops, ceremonies, movement, and group sessions, while the rest of the property provides separate areas for meals, conversations, relaxation, and downtime. That separation makes a huge difference operationally and allows the retreat to flow naturally throughout the day.

Our clients have consistently loved their experiences at The ARC, and from an event-planning perspective, it has been one of the best retreat locations we have found in Southern California. It offers a rare combination of beauty, functionality, convenience, and thoughtful spaces that truly support transformational gatherings.

EVEvolucian
EvolucianRetreat Host

This place is truly magical. There is something about being surrounded by the mountains, the peacefulness of the property, and the energy of The ARC that makes it incredibly special.

I hosted one of the best retreats of my life here during a meaningful season of stepping into a new identity and a new chapter of my work. The space gave us the freedom to go in depth, connect, reflect, and create an experience that felt both powerful and intimate.

The ARC will always hold a special place in my heart because of what was created here and who I became in the process.

TRTim Ringgold
Tim RinggoldRadiant Accent

The ARC feels like familiar territory to me in the best possible way. As part of the Community Architects Fellowship, I had already experienced the depth of connection and intentionality the space was designed to hold, so launching my Radiant Accent community here felt incredibly aligned.

What made the experience so meaningful was being able to gather people who are navigating loss and create a space where they could reconnect with themselves, with one another, and with life again. There was something truly magical about watching people soften, open up, laugh, feel, and begin to come back to themselves.

The ARC gave us the environment to do that work with both depth and warmth. It is a special place for people doing meaningful work in the world, and I’m grateful that one of the earliest chapters of Radiant Accent was born here.

BKBrendan Kelly
Brendan KellyRaise the Bar

Launching the Raise the Bar community at The ARC was a major milestone for me. As a Community Architects Fellow, it felt powerful to bring the vision into a physical space and create an experience where founders could step away from the noise, connect profoundly, and focus on what they were building next.

This was also one of the earlier founder-focused retreats hosted at The ARC, and the team really showed up. It was the property’s first summer season, and we unexpectedly discovered that the Dome could get quite hot during the day. Like any new venue finding its rhythm, there were things being learned in real time, but what stood out to me was how quickly everyone adapted and kept the experience moving. Blue Diamond Events helped pull everything together beautifully, and the founders of The ARC were profoundly hands-on in making sure we had what we needed.

Despite those early growing pains, the retreat was an incredible success. We generated $133,000 in revenue, and more importantly, it showed me what can happen when the right people, environment, and experience come together intentionally.

The ARC became more than a venue for us. It became part of the launch story of Raise the Bar, and I’ll always associate the space with momentum, connection, adaptability, and possibility.