The 2006 SBSE Summer Retreat is designed to be a true retreat that will provide an opportunity to step outside of our daily lives, to slowdown, to unplug, and to reflect on pressing questions for the future of sustainable design education and practice.  The retreat will be held in the stunning natural beauty of the Colorado State University Pingree Park Mountain Campus in the Rocky Mountains.  Three hours from Denver and nestled within sight of the Rocky Mountain National Park, the Comanche Peak Wilderness Area, and Roosevelt National Forest, we will take the opportunity to actively engage the site, lessons from nature, and the power of place.  In Promise Ahead, author and social scientist, Duane Elgin suggests that our species, homo sapiens sapiens (double-wise beings), is at an "evolutionary inflection," with the possibility of evolving to where “humanity will move beyond maintaining ourselves to surpassing ourselves…to liberate the creative potentials of the species without destroying the foundation of global unity and sustainability…" How might we, as design educators, look beyond our current environmental technology and ecological design education to establish more integral and holistic approaches to teaching and learning, taking the next step in our collective evolution?