2026 Retreats
Tiny. Bespoke. Rustic. Authentic.
This year’s retreats will build on the Now What? theme—when what was “supposed to happen” hasn’t, or a chapter has closed. You’re at a threshold, looking for what comes next.
6 nights/5 days in a rural mountain village in Portugal.
Get comfortable. Get rested. Get grounded. Go deep.
$2450, all inclusive (except travel)
Let clarity and your healing inform your work and your life.
Offerings for Women
THE MADRINA SESSIONS: SEEKING SPIRITUAL AUDACITY (July 2026)
Not mentorship. A soul journey.
If the work of being a doctor were a body, the soul would be its vital organ—the source of life force, what Hildegard of Bingen called veriditas, our greening.
When was the last time your soul was given serious attention in the professional realm? Imagine choosing its wisdom and energy—on purpose.
The Madrina can help.
HAGITUDE; THE WISE OLD WOMAN AND FEMININE AUTHORITY (August 2026)
The first half of life prepares you. The second half reveals you.
Make the crossing from perimenopause into Hagitude.
Explore the elder woman’s path: fierce, sovereign, and whole.
Stand in a story wide enough to hold all of you.
Reclaim the elder woman’s power and let age speak—on her own terms.
CLAIMING THE KNIFE (Summer 2026 – TBD)
An edition of the Now What? Retreats for women in procedural specialties.
This retreat will be offered if there is sufficient interest—so if it speaks to you, reach out.
Surgery demands the reconciliation of unconscious, symbolic tensions—none more charged than what it means to make a wound in order to heal. All surgeons face the paradox of causing harm to restore health. For women, there’s often an added layer: holding and bridging the inner masculine and feminine forces that this work evokes.
This retreat names those tensions—and invites you to work with them directly. Not to resolve them, but to integrate them. To wield the knife with clarity, authority, and wholeness.
Offerings Open to All
THE ORIGINAL NOW WHAT? RETREAT (June, August, September 2026. Special price $1795)
Life didn’t go as planned. Maybe you’re facing a professional reckoning or navigating a major life transition. This retreat offers space for honest conversation, sharied stories, and thoughtful exploration of what’s waiting beyond the threshold.
THE EXPAT EDITION (July 2026)
Thinking about practicing medicine outside the U.S.? Whether you're considering a sabbatical or a more permanent relocation, this retreat explores real-world options—and the deeper reasons—behind the urge to step away from U.S. corporate healthcare, or even from industrial medicine altogether.
Early interest welcome. Make it known here or drop me a line at laurenkosinskimd@metamorphosismedicine.com.
A wild and woolly winter stay in that dark time between Christmas and New Year’s or the weeks leading up to the holidays is also on the table. Does this interest you? Let me know.
Are you living the life you imagined when you dreamt of being a doctor?
One-to-One Work
Instead of struggling to fit into a profoundly dysfunctional system, make a different choice.
Even if it feels impossible — even if you’ve been told again and again that there is no room to shape your practice, no space for your perspective, no power in your voice — the truth is different.
By picking up the thread of your Personal Myth, you begin to rediscover your inner authority. From there, you can map an authentic path in medicine — one that bends toward meaning, integrity, and freedom..
New in Medicine, Rewritten
What is Metamorphosis Medicine?
Speaking unfettered truth, fueling personal transformation and reimagining Medicine. By doctors, for doctors.
Metamorphosis Medicine is a toolkit, an ever-expanding collection of original and curated content, points of view, experiences, practices, and strategies, combined with guidance. These resources are a Missing Curriculum, designed to help doctors achieve the most fulfilling expression of our profession, tailored to define a fulfilling, transformative, personal journey.
Ten Initiatives to Heal Medicine
Published on Close to the Bone with Lauren Kosinski, MD and LinkedIn in January 2025.
Before you write these off as unachievable, consider what practice could look like if these initiatives were realized. We have to imagine what we want to build. To the extent we believe we’re stuck, we are stuck.
1. The difference in income between the lowest paid and the highest paid person in medicine should be no more than 10x.
2. Forgive all medical school debt and establish debt-free medical education.
3. Make residency a sustainable lifestyle.
4. Establish the Functional Medicine model as the foundation for clinical instruction.
5. Every doctor should write and continually update a Personal Practice Prescription at every stage of clinical training and practice.
6. Reframe and restore physician professional accountability.
7. Continual rebalancing of the 3 priorities of medicine: intellectual engagement, prosperity, and meaningful work.
8. The practice of medicine should not make doctors sick or sick at heart; we should thrive because of our practices, not despite them.
9. Establish a single payer system that covers everyone and includes wellness activities.
10. Know your doctor origin story.
Hello
I’m Lauren Kosinski, MD, Creator of Metamorphosis Medicine
What I bring to the table:
25+ years in clinical surgery in diverse practice settings, from solo general surgery practice in Alaska to subspecialty academic colorectal surgical practice
Jungian (Analytic) Psychology Training Candidate (over 600 class hours), ISAPZurich (Switzerland)
Certified yoga teacher with 700 hours of yoga teacher and integrative therapy training hours
Creation and management of The Seed House, a wellness center and prototype
Life Atlas Consultant and Gifts Compass Inventory Advisor Certifications
Master’s degree in Health and Medical Sciences
3 years as executive director of a small surgical research foundation
MBA Essentials Certificate from the London School of Economics
My humanity
medicines
Things to support you in your practice
TOOLS, RESOURCES, REMINDERS
Some free, some paid.