Plum Village

Retreats and gender diversity

As registration for the coming summer’s Wake Up retreat is opening soon, I was wondering if there are any veteran PV visitors who identify as non-binary who can help clear something up for me. First off, I was really happy to see that they host non-binary practitioners for some of the retreats. I was wondering though, if you’re non-binary and have attended a retreat, did you choose to stay at either Upper Hamlet or New Hamlet based on your assigned gender at birth, or just whatever felt right? What was your experience there with shared accommodation and bathrooms? I did e-mail the organisation and received a very kind though inconclusive response, so I figured I’d ask here. TLDR; I want to sign up for the Wake Up retreat, I’m non-binary, I don’t know which accommodation I should choose, I don’t want to step on any toes, so to speak.