About Us
Christina Marie Kimball has hosted retreats and round tables for 25 years. The use of round tables to gather several people together for a session(s) to explore ideas and projects has led her to studies that include; right and left brain processing, learning styles, leadership styles and the use of creativity in thinking processes, embracing the abstract and concrete. Her experiences include entrepreneurial adventures - founding and running five successful business ranging from a business consulting firm, a design firm, art studios and a restaurant. She also has extensive experience in leading organizations in institutional settings. She has also done executive level work in the hospitality and entertainment worlds. Christina has three grown daughters and lives a bi-coastal life with her husband Alex between Seattle and New York.

Gina Bria, anthropologist, speaker and author of Art of Family, translates scholarly research for practical use. A former Berlin Fellow with the International Institute of Family Development, Lifecycle and Lifestyle; Associate Fellow with Columbia University Institute for Children and Infants; and an independent scholar National Endowment for the Humanities finalist in medieval history. Writing work has appeared in The New York Times, Redbook, Working Mother, Mars Hill Review, and NPR Audio Journal. Her workshops, Writing the City, are prized for their innovative inclusion of the arts and her work with ritual, thinking and play has appeared in many forums, including Grand Central Station.  Current work: Creating space, time and rest through retreat, and forward movement through collaboration and enjoyment of the arts.