Whether or not the mountains are your soul's native land (there are also the oceans, the deserts, the plains), CANAAN will be for you a spiritual spa--with the accent now not on losing fat, as in the old "spas," but gaining faith, wholeness, peace and strength to empower your creative living in a postmodern world. In place of the old modernist model of a "retreat center," CANAAN embodies a new postmodern model of "coming apart" so that world-weary leaders (especially those in the caring professions) do not "come apart." CANAAN's language and landscape is not one of escape retreats but advance adventures and prayer summits where leaders can slow down to speed up in God's presence.