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Healing 1, 3 and 7 Day Retreats for
Individuals and Couples
Our most recent couples retreat on Whidbey Island was powerful and deeply healing. Our couples loved learning how to slow down, play, and communicate more effectively with one another. They especially loved doing all of these things out in nature and in a non-office setting. After connecting with one another in safe and supportive group sessions, all of our retreatants reported feeling so much less alone in their struggles.
Inner-process writing was also a great tool they were able to take home and continue to use. Come join us for more of these creative, fun and deeply altering retreats in nature. We are hosting upcoming retreats for both individuals and couples. SEE OUR WEBSITE FOR THE NEW RETREAT IN JANUARY ON RE-EMPLACEMENT WRITING AT THE WHIDBEY INSTITUTE!
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Influences and important links
As an undergraduate, I attended every course taught by my degree committee chair, Dana Jack, and as such obtained one of the best groundings in Relational Psychology one could obtain without having attended Wellesley College!
The Stone Center at Wellesley College has a series of publications that have influenced my work, insuring that issues of race, class, culture and gender are primary considerations in my practice. My relational theory roots come from here.
Diana Fosha impacted me deeply, enabling me to combine my studies of relational theory with the practice of emotion-focused core-affect methods.
Michael Eigen uses language that is at once poetic and insightful to describe this tenuous and indefinable field we find ourselves in.
| "The human potential for compassion and empathy is huge. Realizing that potential may be challenging in these troubled times, but perhaps it may be as direct as attuning to ourselves, one mind, one relationship, one moment at a time." Daniel Siegel, The Mindful Brain |
My personal contemplative practice
is essential to seeing clients, helping
me help clients more effectively. My teacher, Zoketsu
Norman Fischer, offers teachings that are both thought-provoking and
mind-settling.
Pema Chodron writes about "shenpa," a term I’ve come to value in working with addictions and compulsions of all kinds. It’s about how we get “hooked.”