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. These retreats are geared toward the meeting the challenges of being a doctor but will be useful to all who feel called.
6 nights/5 days in a rural mountain village in Portugal.
Get comfortable. Get rested. Get grounded. Go deep.
$2450, all inclusive (except travel)
Clarity and healing are the foundation of your work and your life.
Offerings for Women
1/ THE MADRINA SESSIONS: SEEKING SPIRITUAL AUDACITY
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.
2/ HAGITUDE; THE WISE OLD WOMAN AND FEMININE AUTHORITY
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.
3/ CLAIMING THE KNIFE
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
4/ HEALING PRESENCE
What Can’t Be Taken
Trauma was not being
able to get the hands
of the clock off me.
Healing was learning
no one has ever laid a fingerprint
on the part of me that is infinite.
Andrea Gibson
The oppressive and contradictory agendas of corporate healthcare and patriarchal attitudes within the medical profession can suffocate the deeper calling that brings us to practice. But even within these rigid frameworks, we can find room to breathe, room to articulate and express the deep underpinnings of Medicine. This is the domain of Healing Presence. It is not only within our reach, it is in continuity with the part of each of us that is infinite, and it is part of our inheritance. Explore and nourish the agency of Healing Presence.
5/ THE ORIGINAL NOW WHAT? RETREAT (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, shared stories, and thoughtful exploration of what’s waiting beyond the threshold.
For more information, email me 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. Interested? Let me know.
Are you living the life you imagined when you dreamt of being a doctor?
One-to-One Work
Stop struggling to fit into a profoundly dysfunctional system and doubting yourself. 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 — this is not the truth.
Pick up the thread of your Personal Myth and discover your inner authority. From there, you can map your authentic path in medicine — one that bends toward meaning, integrity, and freedom. One that reunites you with your original intention and feeds your soul. Imagine unlocking all that energy!
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.