Updates from the CEO

The latest update from Albert Roberson, on where the civil rights docket is heading this term.

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The Learning Institute

Retreats

Two retreats a year. Five days, forty hours, and a room small enough that everyone in it is asked something. Seats are allocated by referral or institutional sponsorship rather than sold openly.

The two retreats

The Seattle skyline with the Space Needle and Mount Rainier beyond

Summer Retreat in Seattle

Twenty-four seats. A working week with practitioners who hold the same seat you do, in a room small enough that everyone is asked something.

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Vail village in winter, framed by snow-covered mountains

Winter Retreat in Vail

Eighteen seats at 8,150 feet. The smaller of the two retreats, in winter, for practitioners who want the room tighter still.

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The week

Forty hours across five days, worked rather than presented. Both retreats run the same five movements.

  1. Where your program actually stands

    An honest audit of the file you brought, against the standard a reviewer would apply. Most people arrive certain about one thing and leave less certain about it.

  2. Intake and supportive measures

    The first twenty-four hours, worked through on real material. Notice, options, documentation, and the decisions that quietly set the ceiling on everything after.

  3. Evidence and interviewing

    Trauma-informed technique under pressure, with your own drafts marked up by a practitioner who will tell you what is wrong with them.

  4. Findings and the record

    Writing a determination someone else can follow. Standard of proof, reasoning made visible, and the parts of a report that fail on appeal.

  5. What you take back

    Your program, rebuilt on paper, with the sequence and the instruments to put it in place. You leave with a plan, not a folder.

How a place is allocated

Seats are not sold openly. That is what keeps the room candid enough for people to bring the matter they are actually stuck on.

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Access

By referral from a practitioner who has attended, or by institutional sponsorship. There is no open registration.

Credit

Forty hours of hour-by-hour attendance documentation, provided for self-submission to your own accrediting body.

Faculty

Every session is taught by a practitioner who carries this work. Faculty is announced to registered attendees ahead of the program.

What the fee covers

The program itself, including all materials and the instruments you take back. Travel and accommodation are not included.

Ask about a place

Tell us which retreat and who referred you, or which institution is sponsoring the seat. We will tell you plainly whether there is room.

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Trust, operationalized

Work with us

Engagements begin with a scoping conversation. We look at the portfolio you are carrying, the exposure you are managing, and the seat you need covered, then we tell you plainly whether we are the right firm for it.

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