October 22 -25, 2026
Long Weekend Santa Fe
Drinking Chocolate Workshop
What to Expect
A sweet pause from the pace of everyday life. The Long Weekend Drinking Chocolate Workshop in the Ortiz Mountains of Santa Fe is designed to enrich your love of chocolate through making, sipping, and learning. Your co hosts are chocolate historian Sophia Rea and craft chocolate educator Mackenzie Rivers, founder of The Next Batch School. We’ll help you slow down, connect with chocolate enthusiasts, and learn about drinking chocolate through guided experiences, chocolate making, and time to simply be.
❋ Intentional Structure
We blend hands on teaching, cultural exploration, and space to reflect, so the experience feels both focused and fluid.
❋ Collaborative Energy
Connection is a core part of the process. You’ll learn just as much from the group as from the content itself.
❋ Experienced Teachers
Led by experienced guide who know how to hold space, encourage participation, and keep things moving with purpose.
❋ A Nourishing Space
Our workshop prioritizes declicious nurturing food. Registered Dietician and Nutritionist, Chef Holly Darnell, will prepare our plant based food throughout the workshop ensuring a spa like culinary experience. All food is Gluten Free. Dairy free options.
Escape everyday life to the Santa Fe desert as you make drinking chocolate and sip your way through history.
Day OneArrive & Meet
As everyone arrives, we take time to settle in, get comfortable, and begin connecting with those around us. The journey starts here.
Check-In4:00 pm
Grazing Board6:00 pm
Day TwoMeseoamerican Family Traditions
Together, we pause to consider our goals, hopes, and direction. This is about aligning with ourselves and with the journey ahead. This is a chance to reconnect with what brought you here—your questions, your hopes, your turning points—and consider how they’ve shifted or deepened.
Breakfast Bar7:00 am - 10:00 am
Group Activity11:00am
Lunch Break1:00 pm
Jicara Workshop3:00 pm
Dinner6:30pm
Day ThreeDrinking Chocolate: Then, Now, and Yours
We’ll explore modern ways of making and tasting drinking chocolate and how to create your own personal cup. beyond this moment, making space for growth, action, and forward momentum. As we end our time together, we honor the experience, the growth, and the connections made along the way.
Breakfast Bar7:00 am – 10:00 am
Drinking Chocolate Made Modern with Mackenzie Rivers11:00am
Lunch Break1:00 pm
Historical Drinking Chocolate Tasting with Sophia Rea3:00 pm
Dinner6:30pm
Meet Your Teachers
Monet Goode
Monet is a lifelong educator with a passion for creating accessible, engaging learning experiences. Known for a calm, encouraging teaching style, Monet believes that growth happens when learners feel both challenged and supported.
Out of respect for our teachers’ experience and knowledge, we pay an honorarium.
Emmett Marsh
Emmett is a detail-oriented instructor who’s spent the past decade helping people develop new tools, habits, and mindsets. Their approach is clear, practical, and always infused with curiosity and care.
Eleanor Parks
Eleanor's background spans education, coaching, and creative development. With a strong focus on process and progress, Eleanor helps learners move from where they are to where they want to be—one step at a time.
How It Works
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Browse our upcoming events to find the one that feels right for you. We host events year-round in all different locations and climates.
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Sign up and pay all required fees to reserve your spot. If plans change, you can cancel up to 14 days before the retreat start to receive a 50% refund.
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After booking, we'll send you a Welcome Packet with everything you need to know—detailed schedules, packing list recommendations, add-ons to consider, and more.
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Now all that's left to do is pack your bags and get excited for your new adventure.