The Reset Retreat: Bringing the Dharma to Work and Money

The Reset Retreat offers an immersive, device-free environment to help you cultivate the qualities of mind and communication skills that lead to well-being and success—at work, with money, and in life. Given how much of our lives we spend working, this retreat is designed to bring joy, purpose, and flow to the moments that shape so much of who we are.

The retreat spans just 48 hours—short enough to fit your schedule, yet long enough for a real shift. Past participants have described the experience as "timeless." Set in the breathtaking Marin Headlands just north of San Francisco at Green Gulch Farm, you'll have space to truly unplug, reset your nervous system, and discover the clarity and wisdom that emerge from stillness.

This is an invitation to stop reacting to your life and start living it. To shift from busyness as a default to intentionally cultivating your most important asset: your presence.

Over the course of the retreat, you'll hike through the headlands, share organic meals, practice meditation techniques designed for real life, move between collective silence and catalytic conversation, experience a restorative sound bath, and walk to the ocean.

We welcome those new to meditation as well as those with decades of experience.

Instructors

Spencer Sherman is a longtime mindfulness practitioner, teacher, author, and the former CEO of Abacus. (The publication Barron’s called him “The Buddhist Financial Advisor.”) He has been leading the Reset Retreat at Green Gulch Farm for the past 14 years. His 35+ year meditation practice supports him in helping participants create an equanimous, powerful, and spacious relationship with work and money. He brings the wisdom of the Dharma to these significant domains of our lives. He also teaches at Spirit Rock, The Insight Meditation Society, tech companies, and law firms.

Sessei Meg McNeil currently serves as head of practice (tanto) at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. She has practiced Soto Zen for 35 years and has lived in residence at all three San Francisco Zen Center temples. She held the position of Head Priest at Stone Creek Zen Center in Sebastopol, California from 2022-2025 before heeding the call to return to Green Gulch Farm and Tassajara to live and practice. She received ordination as a Zen priest in 2003 from Tenshin Reb Anderson and trained as Shuso (Head Student) in 2007.

Alongside her Zen practice, Meg has maintained an active professional career, teaching mindfulness-based emotional intelligence and leadership through the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI) and supporting leaders as an executive coach. She holds an AB in English Literature from Stanford University and an MA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Her broader interests include ecodharma and exploring how Buddhist teachings and practice can help humans more consciously navigate the increasing influence of AI.