Most retreat management tools stop at the calendar. Major Fieldora starts there and keeps going — into the texture of group life, the arc of individual transformation, and the quiet decisions a facilitator makes when something in the room shifts. The app is built around the concept of "field holding," which it defines as the art of maintaining energetic space and supporting transformation across the full duration of a retreat.
What the App Actually Tracks
Organizers can run multiple retreats simultaneously, each with its own location, format, dates, and status. Within each retreat, participants are listed with their personal intentions and participation history. The individual states module lets facilitators log daily emotional, mental, and physical observations per person — noting things like processing grief, tension in shoulders, or emerging clarity — and watch how those states shift over days. Group energy gets its own dedicated section: daily reflections are logged with a numeric rating, brief description, and the ability to filter by retreat. A separate conflict section records situations, the participants involved, root causes, and the resolutions that were applied. The schedule section ties practices to specific times, durations, and facilitators, while a corrections module allows the program to be adjusted in response to what the group actually needs. End-of-retreat summaries capture outcomes and insights intended to inform future facilitation.
Supporting Tools Built In
- A financial tracker covering income and expenses
- Professional guidance materials on group dynamics, holding safe space, and common facilitation challenges
- An analytics dashboard showing aggregated data across retreats
A Note on Accessibility
The app leans heavily on color coding — green and orange bars for energy levels, color-differentiated icons for practice types — without offering text-based alternatives for those indicators. Touch targets for delete buttons have been flagged as small, and there are no visible accessibility settings such as high-contrast mode or dynamic text sizing. For facilitators who work with participants with motor or visual impairments, this is worth knowing before committing to the platform.
The Feel of the Interface
The app's icon — a blue lotus with a yellow lightning bolt at its center, glowing against a deep blue gradient — sets the visual tone for everything inside. That same interplay of electric color and quiet symbol runs through the participant-state screens, where purple crystal formations and mountain backgrounds sit behind structured data cards. It's a visual language that will feel familiar to anyone who's spent time with Coin Strike 2, a slot game whose interface shares that exact combination: blue orbs lit by yellow lightning bolts, glowing purple rims, and a sense that something charged is always just beneath the surface. The aesthetic overlap is incidental, but the recognizability is real.
Major Fieldora occupies an unusual space — it asks facilitators to treat their professional records with the same care they bring to the retreat itself, and the structure largely supports that ask, even if the accessibility gaps leave some users behind.