Meeting Facilities
The Occidental Arts & Ecology Center’s comfortable meeting spaces are a facilitator’s dream, designed to support collaboration, creativity, and focused group work. Rooms are equipped with essentials like whiteboards, a high-lumen projector, excellent microphones and speakers (for Zooming in remote participants), and flexible seating. Nestled in a natural landscape just 70 miles from the Bay Area, our facilities cultivate the inspiring conditions for personal, organizational, and ecological transformation.
Meeting Facilities
- The Meeting Hall contains a large 1450 square foot main conference room, a smaller 385 square foot meeting room, accessible ecologically designed restrooms, an office/lounge space, and a kitchenette.
- Opens to an outdoor circular, multi-use courtyard on one side and a spectacular deck overlooking the garden and forest on the other. Designed for seamless indoor-outdoor gatherings and maximum enjoyment of the site’s natural beauty.
- Centrally heated and air-cooled.
- Beautiful and natural cork, sisal and madrone wood flooring, high ceilings, and lots of natural light.
- Fast wi-fi in the meeting hall and every building throughout the site.
- State-of-the-art audio-visual and teleconferencing equipment in both the main Oak Room and the smaller Olive Room. See spec sheet for details.
- Fully adjustable high quality speakers in all indoor and outdoor meeting spaces.
- ADA accessible, all-gender restroom.
- Meeting and office equipment and supplies included for all your workshop and facilitation needs, including wireless printer/copier.
- Kitchenette fully stocked with organic coffees, teas and snacks.
- Flexible arrangement of tables and chairs with yoga mats, zafu cushions, and back-jacks also available.
- In addition to the deck and courtyard, there is a wide array of additional outdoor gathering spaces adjacent to the building and throughout the gardens including an outdoor stage/amphitheater, a garden shade pavilion, various picnic tables and benches, a shady palapa and even a floating dock on our pond.
