Dates: 3 Days: Friday, December 7 – Sunday, December 9; 10:00am – 4:30pm
Sliding Scale: $225 – 600. Code LG2M18.
16 CE credits available for $160 for psychologists and California licensed MFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, LPCCs, nurses, and chiropractors.

We do learn and grow from meeting the challenges and adversities of the human condition when we have enough support, resources and skills to do so.

This retreat explores how we can learn to cope resiliently with the trials, and even tragedies, of our lives. We will apply practices of mindfulness, self-compassion, mindful empathy and conscious reflection to five factors that predict genuine post-traumatic growth and find a deeper sense of meaning, purpose, and fulfillment through our process of recovery.

Teachings are appropriate for health care professionals as well as the general public. Health care professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients. Continuing Education (CE) credit available. See below for attendance requirements and more information.

Learning Objectives for participating health care professionals-
Based on the content of this program, you will be able to:

• Describe the differences between stressors (external events) and stress (internal reactions to external events) and the differences between stress and trauma (an overwhelm of defenses against stress or external events);
• Describe the impact of the activation-deactivation of the autonomic nervous system (survival responses) on brain functioning and resilience;
• Teach clients to use five body-based tools to regulate automatic survival responses and return the body-brain to its natural physiological equilibrium;
• Identify three practices of cultivating mindful self-compassion to shift the functioning of the brain from contraction, reactivity, and negativity to openness and the larger perspective;
• Implement memory de-consolidation/re-consolidation to help clients rewire dysfunctional patterns of response;
• List the five factors that contribute to post-traumatic growth;
• Describe three mechanisms of brain change to install new, more resilient patterns of behavior into implicit memory;
• Identify three exercises that can reverse toxic shame and change the relationship of self to the inner critic;
• Identify 7 steps of mindfulness practice that allow clients to monitor and modify their responses to experience;
• Identify at least three skills of relational intelligence that clients can learn to improve interpersonal dynamics;
• Describe three tools that can help clients recover/strengthen their inner secure base of resilience.

Young Adults (18-26) and Seniors (65+ with limited income) are invited to attend this program for $135 ($45/day).